ALPG Tour
Dates Tournament Location Winner
Nov 24 , 2011 Hahn Premium Light & Konami Port Kembla Golf Club Pro-Am Pork Kembla Golf Club Stacey Keating ( 1 )
Nov 25 , 2011 Power Ford Castle Hill Country Club Pro-Am Castle Hill Country Club Bree Arthur ( 1 )
Nov 27-28 , 2011 Mount Broughton Ladies Classic Mount Broughton Golf and Country Club Stacey Keating ( 2 )
Nov 29 , 2011 Lady Anne Funerals ALPG Pro-Am Ryde-Parramatta Golf Club Bree Arthur ( 2 )
Dec 3-4 , 2011 Xstrata Coal Branxton Golf Club Pro-Am Branxton Golf Club Tamara Johns ( 5 )
Jan 6-8 Women 's Victorian Open Woodlands/Spring Valley Golf Club Joanna Klatten ( 1 )
Jan 20-22 ActewAGL Royal Canberra Ladies Classic Royal Canberra Golf Club Karen Lunn ( 4 )
Jan 27-29 Bing Lee Samsung Women 's NSW Open Oatlands Golf Club Lydia Ko ( n/a , amateur )
Feb 2-5 Gold Coast RACV Australian Ladies Masters RACV Royal Pines Resort Christel Boeljon ( n/a )
Feb 9-12 ISPS Handa Women 's Australian Open Royal Melbourne Golf Club Jessica Korda ( n/a )
Feb 17-19 ISPS Handa New Zealand Women 's Open Pegasus Golf Course Lindsey Wright ( 2 )
2012 Schedule and results
The ALPG Tour is a professional golf tour for women which is based in Australia. ALPG stands for Australian Ladies Professional Golf. The ALPG was founded as the Ladies Professional Golf Association of Australia (LPGAA) in 1972 by Alan Gillott, who also later on founded The Golfer newspaper, a free publication provided to golfers and golf clubs, Australia-wide. The LPGAA switched to its current name (ALPG) in 1991. The first events featured twelve competitors, and the early years were a struggle. However the long term trend was of gradual expansion and by 2004 there were over 150 members. The season features about a dozen tournaments, usually played over the Australian summer between November and March. The ANZ Ladies Masters and MFS Women's Australian Open have long been the leading events on the tour, with both being co-sanctioned with the more prestigious Ladies European Tour (LET) which helps attract a higher quality field. In 2010 the New Zealand Women's Open became the third tournament to be co-sanctioned by the LET. The ANZ Masters, the Australian Open and the New Zealand Open have prize funds of A$600,000, A$500,000 and A$400,000 respectively, each higher than the prize funds of all 10 remaining events combined. The New South Wales Open and the Royal Canberra Ladies Classic have purses of A$100,000 and A$125,000 respectively, and no other event has a purse of over A$25,000. Since 2012, the Women's Australian Open has also been co-sanctioned by the U.S. LPGA Tour; in its first year as an LPGA Tour event, the prize fund increased to US$1.1 million.