The 1965 LPGA Tour was the 16th season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from March 18 to November 28. The season consisted of 30 official money events. Kathy Whitworth won the most tournaments, eight. She also led the money list with earnings of $28,658.
There were two first-time winners in 1965: Susie Maxwell and Jo Ann Prentice .
The tournament results and award winners are listed below.
Tournament results [ edit ] The following table shows all the official money events for the 1965 season.[1] Majors are shown in bold .
Date
Tournament
Location
Winner
Score
Purse ($ )
1st prize ($)
Mar 21
St. Petersburg Open Florida Kathy Whitworth (12)281
9,600
1,500
Mar 28
All State Ladies' Invitational Mississippi Jo Ann Prentice (1)146^
8,000
1,275
Apr 4
Baton Rouge Invitational Louisiana Mickey Wright (64)214
8,000
1,275
Apr 25
Pensacola Invitational Florida Betsy Rawls (49)218
8,000
1,275
May 2
Shreveport Kiwanis Invitational Louisiana Kathy Whitworth (13)210
8,000
1,275
May 2
Peach Blossom Open South Carolina Marilynn Smith (14)213
8,000
1,275
May 16
Muskogee Civitan Open Oklahoma Susie Maxwell (1)213
8,000
1,275
May 23
Dallas Civitan Open Texas Mickey Wright (65)283
14,000
2,100
May 30
Babe Zaharias Open Texas Marlene Hagge (20)215
8,000
1,275
Jun 6
Blue Grass Invitational Kentucky Kathy Whitworth (14)213
8,500
1,350
Jun 13
Women's Western Open Illinois Susie Maxwell (2)290
9,600
1,500
Jun 20
Cosmopolitan Open Illinois Sandra Haynie (6)210
8,000
1,275
Jun 27
Lady Carling Open Maryland Carol Mann (2)211
10,000
1,500
Jul 3
U.S. Women's Open New Jersey Carol Mann (3)290
17,780
4,000
Jul 11
Lady Carling Midwest Open Ohio Kathy Whitworth (15)219
10,000
1,500
Jul 18
Yankee Open Michigan Kathy Whitworth (16)213
15,000
2,250
Jul 25
Buckeye Savings Invitational Ohio Kathy Whitworth (17)207
10,000
1,500
Aug 1
Waterloo Open Iowa Betsy Rawls (50)214
8,000
1,275
Aug 8
Milwaukee Open Wisconsin Marlene Hagge (21)287
12,000
1,875
Aug 15
St. Louis Open Missouri Mary Mills (4)216
12,500
1,875
Aug 22
Omaha Jaycee Open Nebraska Clifford Ann Creed (4)208
11,500
1,500
Sep 12
Eugene Open Oregon Mary Mills (5)294
10,000
1,350
Sep 19
Visalia Open California Clifford Ann Creed (5)289
8,500
1,350
Sep 26
LPGA Championship Nevada Sandra Haynie (7)279
15,830
2,475
Oct 3
Mickey Wright Invitational California Kathy Whitworth (18)283
8,600
1,350
Oct 24
Phoenix Thunderbirds Open Arizona Marlene Hagge (22)290
8,600
1,350
Oct 30
Las Cruces Open New Mexico Clifford Ann Creed (6)215
9,000
1,350
Nov 7
LPGA Tall City Open Texas Marlene Hagge (23)206
10,000
1,350
Nov 14
Alamo Open Texas Marlene Hagge (24)216
8,800
1,500
Nov 28
Titleholders Championship Georgia Kathy Whitworth (19)287
10,000
1,500
^ - weather-shortened tournament
References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
Kathy Whitworth
United States