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Safeco Classic

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Location
  
Kent, Washington, U.S.

Length
  
6,241 yards (5,707 m)

Month played
  
September

Tour
  
LPGA

Prize fund
  
650,000 USD

Course(s)
  
Meridian Valley C.C.

Format
  
Stroke play - 72 holes

Final year
  
1999

Established
  
1982 LPGA Tour

Par
  
72

Safeco Classic

The Safeco Classic (often styled as the SAFECO Classic) was a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour in the Seattle area, sponsored by Safeco Insurance. It was played 18 times, from 1982 to 1999, at Meridian Valley Country Club in Kent, Washington, usually in mid-September, the week following the Safeway Classic in Portland.

With the opening of the Seattle Mariners' Safeco Field in Seattle in July 1999, Safeco entered a 20-year, $40 million agreement for the naming rights of the new major league baseball stadium. Safeco ended its sponsorship of the LPGA event in October 1999 and a new sponsor did not emerge.

Multiple winners of the 72-hole event were Patty Sheehan (1982, 1990, 1995), Juli Inkster (1983, 1988), and Karrie Webb (1995, 1996).

References

Safeco Classic Wikipedia