Around 2010, Brown "purchased the rights to the Cactus Tour and [around 2019 was] staging about 30 events a year at desert locales in Arizona, California and Nevada.
[6] In 2020, purses were "decidedly mini—usually $2,000 to $3,000 to the winner of a 54-hole tournament, with about half the players in pro field getting at least their $577 entry fee back.
The Cactus Tour was "founded in 2005 for women professionals with the charter 'to present a competitive environment, as well as an affordable one, for women golf professionals to use in developing or re-developing their game in preparation for competing on the Symetra [now the Epson] and LPGA tours.
Its scheduled events continued, although a number of COVID prevention policies were put in place.
In December 2020, after the tour concluded, the Longbow Golf Club and its general manager Bob McNichols organized a winner-take-all exhibition event, in which four of the Cactus Tour's top money winners of the year competed for a $10,000 prize.
[2] LPGA professional players sometimes play in the Cactus Tour, as did Anna Nordqvist of Sweden, already a two-time LPGA winner, when she played in and won the last 2020 Cactus Tour event (at Moon Valley in the Phoenix, Arizona area).