Women's major golf championships
The Chevron Championship is the first major of the season and through 2022 was held at a single host course (the Mission Hills Country Club), similarly to the Masters Tournament, in 2023 it was held at The Club at Carlton Woods Unlike the mainstream men's equivalents, all but one of the women's majors have title sponsors.
Beginning in 2009, the Tour Championship extended entry to all players in the top 120 on the official LPGA Money List.
Starting in 2011, the Tour Championship was replaced by the CME Group Titleholders; from that point through 2013, the top three finishers at all official tour events, including the majors, who had not already qualified for the Titleholders earned entries.
Starting in 2014, the LPGA adopted a points race similar in some ways to the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup.
In the new system, officially called the "Race to the CME Globe", the top 72 points earners during the season, plus all tournament winners, qualify for the renamed final event, the CME Group Tour Championship, in which the top nine points earners will have at least a mathematical chance of winning the season title.
During the four-major era, six women have completed a "Career Grand Slam" by winning four different majors .
The six are: Pat Bradley; Juli Inkster; Annika Sörenstam; Louise Suggs; Karrie Webb; and Mickey Wright.
During the five-major era, Inbee Park became the first woman to complete the "Career Grand Slam."
Before the elevation of The Evian Championship to major status, the following was required for a golfer to win the Super Career Grand Slam: Webb won the du Maurier Classic in 1999 and the Women's British Open in 2002.
[10] Chun also holds the record for lowest aggregate score for 72-holes, at 263, for her performance at that tournament.
Also, before the Evian Masters was elevated to major status, the Ladies' Golf Union, the governing body for women's golf in the UK and Republic of Ireland and the organiser of the Women's British Open, stated on its official site that the Women's British Open is "the only Women's Major to be played outside the U.S."[22] The Ladies European Tour does not sanction any of the LPGA majors which are played in the United States, and only has two events which it designates as majors on its schedule, namely the Women's British Open and The Evian Championship (historically the Evian Masters), which is played in France.
Because it was played the week before the Women's British Open (except in 2012, when the latter event was moved to September to avoid conflict with the London Olympics), and the purse was (and remains) one of the largest on the LPGA Tour, virtually all top LPGA players played the Evian Masters before its elevation to major status.
(During the 2006–08 period, its winner also received an automatic berth in the LPGA Tour Championship.)
