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Sybase Classic

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Length
  
6,413 yards (5,864 m)

Prize fund
  
$2,000,000 in 2009

Tour
  
LPGA

Par
  
72

Format
  
Stroke play - 72 holes

Month played
  
May

Established
  
1990 LPGA Tour

Location
  
Clifton, New Jersey, U.S.

Course(s)
  
Upper Montclair Country Club (2007-2009)

Christina kim interview after a great round at the lpga sybase classic


The Sybase Classic was a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour for twenty years, from 1990 to 2009. The event was originally known as the "Big Apple Classic", but the name was dropped in 2007 when the tournament relocated from the New York City area to New Jersey. From 1992 through 2006, ShopRite sponsored the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Atlantic City.

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For its first seventeen years, the event was held at the Wykagyl Country Club in the Wykagyl section of New Rochelle, New York. In 2007 the venue was changed to the Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton, New Jersey. The tournament was last played in 2009, as Sybase switched its sponsorship to the Sybase Match Play Championship in 2010, also played in New Jersey. ShopRite revived its sponsorship of the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Atlantic City in 2010.

Over the years, proceeds from the event went to benefit charities such as St. Joseph's Healthcare System, Inc. and the Boys & Girls Club of Clifton.

Tournament names through the years:

  • 1990-1998: JAL Big Apple Classic presented by GOLF Magazine
  • 1999-2000: Japan Airlines Big Apple Classic presented by GOLF Magazine
  • 2001-2002: Sybase Big Apple Classic presented by GOLF Magazine
  • 2003: Sybase Big Apple Classic presented by Lincoln Mercury
  • 2004-2006: Sybase Classic presented by Lincoln Mercury
  • 2007-2009: Sybase Classic presented by ShopRite
  • Michelle wie at the sybase classic


    Winners

    * The 2000, 2006 and 2008 tournaments were shortened to 54 holes because of rain.

    References

    Sybase Classic Wikipedia