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Pure Silk Championship

Coordinates: 37°13′30″N 76°40′05″W / 37.225°N 76.668°W / 37.225; -76.668
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For the men's tournament, see Michelob Championship at Kingsmill.
Pure Silk Championship
Tournament information
LocationWilliamsburg, Virginia
Established2003, twenty-one years ago
Course(s)Kingsmill Resort,
River Course
Par71
Length6,379 yards (5,833 m)
Organized byKingsmill Resort
Tour(s)LPGA Tour
FormatStroke play - 72 holes
Prize fund$1.3 million
Month playedMay
Final year2021
Tournament record score
Aggregate264 Lexi Thompson (2017)
To par−20 as above
Current champion
Chinese Taipei Hsu Wei-ling
Williamsburg  is located in the United States
Williamsburg 
Williamsburg 
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Location in the United States
Kingsmill  Resort  is located in Virginia
Kingsmill  Resort 
Kingsmill 
Resort 
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Location in Virginia

The Pure Silk Championship was a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour, played in Williamsburg, Virginia. The 72-hole tournament was held on the par-71 River Course at Kingsmill Resort, set at 6,340 yards (5,797 m) in 2013.[1]

Previously known as the "Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill," the tournament was founded twenty-one years ago in 2003 and played for seven seasons. Absent in 2010 and 2011, it returned for the 2012 season in early September, and switched to early May in 2013.[2]

The LPGA event succeeded the Michelob Championship at Kingsmill, an annual PGA Tour event held for 22 years, from 1981 through 2002.

Michelob ULTRA Open

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Held at the Kingsmill Resort just south of Williamsburg, it formerly had one of the highest purses on the LPGA Tour, which attracted a very competitive field. It was voted the players' favorite stop on the tour in 2007 and fans' favorite tournament in 2008.[3]

With a purse of $2.2 million, the winner of this LPGA tournament automatically qualified for the season-ending LPGA Playoffs at The ADT, during the years the Playoffs were held, from 2006 through 2008. The purse for the revived event in 2012 was $1.3 million. The tournament was sponsored by Michelob ULTRA beer, and its parent company Anheuser-Busch. As of 2007, Anheuser-Busch had donated over $1.3 million to 30 different charities through the event. At the 2009 tournament, there was speculation that Anheuser-Busch would not continue its sponsorship; the late-2000s recession and the company's pending acquisition by InBev were among the factors.[4]

The talk led that year's winner, Cristie Kerr, and other players to lobby to keep the tournament.[4] In September 2009, Anheuser-Busch announced the discontinuation of its sponsorship of the event, and the LPGA Tour lost one of its most prominent stops.[3]

The decision came at a difficult time for the LPGA, which lost a number of events during 2008 and 2009.[3][4]

Kingsmill Championship

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Sign outside Kingsmill Golf Club
showing winners of the events

At the 2012 event, Jiyai Shin won a sudden-death playoff with Paula Creamer that extended to nine holes and a fifth day. After eight consecutive pars by both, all played on the par-4 18th hole, darkness forced the playoff's suspension until Monday morning. Play was restarted on the 16th hole, and Creamer bogeyed with three putts while Shin parred.[5] Both were a day late arriving to the Women's British Open in England; Shin won the year's final major by nine strokes and Creamer finished third.

Kerr won her third title at Kingsmill in a playoff in 2013 over Suzann Pettersen, the 2007 champion. The playoff went two holes, both played on #18, and ended when Kerr sank her putt for par. The sudden-death format was changed in 2013 to play that finishing hole three times, then move to over to #16 if a fourth hole was necessary.[6]

Kerr is the only multiple winner, with victories in 2005, 2009, and 2013. Annika Sörenstam set the event's 72-hole scoring record in 2008 at 265, 19 strokes under par. Shin set the stop's single round record in 2012, with a 62 (−9) in the first round.

Tournament names

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  • 2003: Michelob Light Open at Kingsmill
  • 2004–2009: Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill
  • 2012–2017: Kingsmill Championship
  • 2018: Kingsmill Championship presented by GEICO
  • 2019–2021: Pure Silk Championship presented by Visit Williamsburg

Course

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Main article: Kingsmill Resort

River Course in 2013[1]

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Yards 373 185 485 385 160 355 495 401 400 3,239 405 375 396 140 362 473 405 163 382 3,101 6,340
Par 4 3 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 36 4 4 4 3 4 5 4 3 4 35 71

Opened 49 years ago in 1975, the River Course was designed by noted course architect Pete Dye, who also supervised its renovation in 2004.[7]

Winners

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Year Date Champion Country Winning score To par Margin
of victory		 Purse
($)		 Winner's
share ($)
Pure Silk Championship
2021 May 20–23 Hsu Wei-ling  Chinese Taipei 66-72-65-68=271 −13 2 strokes 1,300,000 195,000
2019 May 23–26 Bronte Law  England 65-68-67-67=267 −17 2 strokes 1,300,000 195,000
Kingsmill Championship
2018 May 17–20 Ariya Jutanugarn (2)  Thailand 66-67-66=199 −14 Playoff 1,300,000 195,000
2017 May 18–21 Lexi Thompson  United States 65-65-69-65=264 −20 5 strokes 1,300,000 195,000
2016 May 19–22 Ariya Jutanugarn  Thailand 69-69-65-67=270 −14 1 stroke 1,300,000 195,000
2015 May 14–18 ^ Minjee Lee  Australia 68-67-69-65=269 −15 2 strokes 1,300,000 195,000
2014 May 15–18 Lizette Salas  United States 67-68-65-71=271 −13 4 strokes 1,300,000 195,000
2013 May 2–5 Cristie Kerr (3)  United States 66-71-66-69=272 −12 Playoff 1,300,000 195,000
2012 Sep 6–10 Jiyai Shin  South Korea 62-68-69-69=268 −16 Playoff 1,300,000 195,000
2011 No tournament
2010
Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill
2009 May 7–10 Cristie Kerr (2)  United States 69-63-66-70=268 −16 2 strokes 2,200,000 330,000
2008 May 8–11 Annika Sörenstam  Sweden 64-66-69-66=265 −19 7 strokes 2,200,000 330,000
2007 May 10–13 Suzann Pettersen  Norway 66-72-68-61=274 −10 Playoff 2,200,000 330,000
2006 May 11–14 Karrie Webb  Australia 66-68-68-70=270 −14 7 strokes 2,200,000 330,000
2005 May 5–8 Cristie Kerr  United States 68-68-68-72=276 −8 5 strokes 2,200,000 330,000
2004 May 6–9 Se Ri Pak  South Korea 70-71-69-65=275 −9 2 strokes 2,200,000 330,000
Michelob Light Open at Kingsmill
 2003  May 1–4 Grace Park  South Korea 67-68-69-71=275 −9 1 stroke 1,600,000 240,000
^ Play extended one day due to rain delays.

Tournament record

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Lexi Thompson at Kingsmill in 2013
 Year  Player Score To par Round
2012 Jiyai Shin* 62 −9 1st
2016 Chun In-gee 62 −9 3rd

* Tournament winner

References

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  1. ^ a b "Fact Sheet". Kingsmill Championship. April 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
  2. ^ "LPGA momentum continues with addition of Kingsmill Championship". LPGA. January 11, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
  3. ^ a b c "LPGA's contract with Kingsmill will not be renewed". Golf. Associated Press. September 23, 2009. Archived from the original on August 13, 2011. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
  4. ^ a b c "LPGA's future at Kingsmill resort uncertain". USA Today. Associated Press. May 12, 2009. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
  5. ^ "Shin's par beats Creamer on ninth hole of sudden death at Kingsmill". PGA of America. Associated Press. September 10, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
  6. ^ "Cristie Kerr wins in two-hole playoff". ESPN. Associated Press. May 5, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
  7. ^ "Events: Kingsmill Championship". Virginia State Golf Association. 2013. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
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