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Aug 16-18
Richmond, Virginia
Purse: $110,000
History: This event started in 2008
Format: 54-holes
Charity: TBA
In 2012, with a final round on Sunday that was sure to produce some exciting golf, the 2012 Eagle Classic came down to the final putt to determine this year’s winner. Paola Moreno shook off a two-shot deficit on the 14th hole to go on to birdie three out of the final four holes to clinch her second-career victory over Jenny Gleason.
Mother Nature became the story at the Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic afternoon as nearly a foot of rain fell on the Ocean Club Golf Course at Atlantis, Paradise Island between 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Tuesday.
The Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic has been shortened to a 54-hole event following overnight storms that dropped nearly a foot of rain on the Ocean Club Golf Course.
A world-class field will tee it up in Paradise this week at the inaugural Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic. The tournament, one of three new tournaments on the 2013 LPGA schedule, is a four-day, 72-hole stroke-play event with a $1.3 million purse and a $195,000 first-place check.
