El Paso Golf Classic

The El Paso Golf Classic was an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the Futures Tour, the LPGA's developmental tour. The event was a part of the Futures Tour's schedule from 2002 through 2008. It took place at the Underwood Golf Complex in El Paso, Texas.

The tournament was a 54-hole event, as are most Futures Tour tournaments, and included a pre-tournament pro-am event, in which local amateur golfers can play with the professional golfers from the Tour as a benefit for local charities. The benefiting charity for the El Paso Golf Classic was the Rotary Club of West El Paso Foundation.

From 2003 through 2006 the tournament was known as the IOS Golf Classic, with the name sponsorship held by International Outsourcing Services, or IOS, an El Paso based data services company and the largest coupon clearinghouse for grocery store retailers' and manufacturers' coupons in the United States. On March 8, 2007, 11 persons associated with IOS, including its president and chief operating officer, were indicted on wire-fraud charges and with carrying out a scheme to defraud manufacturers that use coupons to market their products to consumers.[1][2] Shortly thereafter, the Futures Tour and the El Paso tournament withdrew the name of IOS as a sponsor for the tournament and the event was renamed the El Paso Golf Classic.

Tournament names through the years:

  • 2002: El Paso Futures Golf Classic
  • 2003–06: IOS Golf Classic
  • 2007–08: El Paso Golf Classic

Winners
YearDateChampionCountryScorePurse ($)Winner's
share ($)
2008May 2–4Kristina Tucker Sweden205 (−11)85,00011,900
2007May 4–6Mo Martin United States207 (−9)80,00011,200
2006May 5–7Song-Hee Kim South Korea208 (−8)75,00010,500
2005Apr 29 – May 1Kyeong Bae South Korea211 (−5)70,0009,800
2004Apr 30 – May 2Hong Mei Yang China205 (−11)70,0009,800
2003May 2–4Vicki Fergon United States216 (E)70,0009,800
2002Apr 12–14Joellyn Erdmann United States204 (−12)70,0009,800

Tournament records
YearPlayerScoreRound
2002Michelle Fuller64 (−8)1st

References
  1. "El Paso Businessmen Indicted in Wisconsin". FBI. 2007-03-08. Archived from the original on 2007-06-18. Retrieved 2007-04-29.
  2. Diedrich, John (2007-03-08). "Huge coupon scam suspected: U.S. accuses firm of bilking stores, manufacturers out of $250 million". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2007-04-29.
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