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2006 Duramed Futures Tour
The 2006 Duramed Futures Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through September 2006 in the United States. The Futures Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour.
The age minimum age for participation was lowered to 17 for the 2006 season.
Schedule and results
The number in parentheses after winners' names shows the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Futures Tour including that event.
| Dates | Tournament | Location | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12 | Lakeland Duramed Futures Classic | Florida | USA Meaghan Francella (1) |
| Mar 19 | Greater Tampa Duramed Futures Classic | Florida | USA Ashley Prange (1) |
| Apr 9 | Louisiana Pelican Classic | Louisiana | KOR Song-Hee Kim (1) |
| Apr 23 | The Power of a Dream Golf Classic | Texas | KOR Hye Jung Choi (1) |
| Apr 30 | Jalapeno Golf Classic | Texas | USA Kristy McPherson (1) |
| May 7 | IOS Golf Classic | Texas | KOR Song-Hee Kim (2) |
| May 14 | Tucson Duramed Futures Golf Classic | Arizona | USA Charlotte Mayorkas (1) |
| Jun 4 | Aurora Health Care Championship | Wisconsin | KOR Song-Hee Kim (3) |
| Jun 11 | Team WLF.org Golf Classic | Illinois | USA Mollie Fankhauser (1) |
| Jun 18 | **Michelob Ultra Duramed Futures Players Championship** | Illinois | CAN Salimah Mussani (1) |
| Jun 25 | Lima Memorial Hospital Futures Classic | Ohio | KOR Ji Min Jeong (1) |
| Jul 2 | Northwest Indiana Futures Golf Classic | Indiana | USA Ashley Prange (2) |
| Jul 16 | CIGNA Golf Classic | Connecticut | KOR Song-Hee Kim (4) |
| Jul 23 | Alliance Bank Golf Classic | New York | KOR Ha-Na Chae (1) |
| Aug 6 | Laconia Savings Bank Golf Classic | New Hampshire | USA Charlotte Mayorkas (2) |
| Aug 13 | Betty Puskar Golf Classic | West Virginia | USA Kristy McPherson (2) |
| Aug 20 | Hunters Oak Golf Classic | Maryland | USA Ashley Hoagland (1) |
| Aug 27 | The Gettysburg Championship | Pennsylvania | KOR Song-Hee Kim (5) |
| Sep 10 | ILOVENY Championship | New York | KOR Ji Min Jeong (2) |
Tournaments in bold are majors.
Leading money winners
These top five money winners at the end of the 2006 season were awarded fully exempt status on the LPGA Tour for the 2007 season.
| Position | Player | Country | Earnings (US$) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||||
| 2 | ||||||
| 3 | ||||||
| 4 | ||||||
| 5 |
Major tournament
In 2006, the Futures Tour held its first major tournament. The Michelob Ultra Futures Players Championship in Decatur, Illinois, which has been on the Tour's schedule since 1985, was the Tour's first 72-hole event, and carried the Tour's largest purse ever — $100,000. The winner, Salimah Mussani, received a sponsor's exemption to play in the LPGA's State Farm Classic https://web.archive.org/web/20061107094446/http://duramedfuturestour.com/News/StateFarmExemptionRelease.pdf in September, 2006. Mussani, a native of Canada, also played in the CN Canadian Women's Open, an August 2006 event on the LPGA Tour.
2006 traffic death
On June 18, 2006, while driving from a tournament in Decatur, Illinois to the next tournament in Lima, Ohio, Futures Tour player Gaelle Truet was killed in a car accident at age 27. She was the first Tour player to perish in a traffic incident in the 26 years of the Futures Tour and the 50 years of the LPGA Tour. https://web.archive.org/web/20061214014942/http://duramedfuturestour.com/News/WR062606.pdf
References
References
- (February 1, 2006). "Duramed Futures Tour Lowers Minimum Age Requirement". Golf Business Wire.
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