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1982 LPGA Tour

golf tour season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ4580495 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1982 LPGA Tour was the 33rd season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from January 28 to November 7. The season consisted of 35 official money events. JoAnne Carner and Beth Daniel won the most tournaments, five each. Carner led the money list with earnings of $310,400.

There were three first-time winners in 1982: Janet Alex, Cathy Morse, and Ayako Okamoto. Sandra Haynie won the last of her 42 LPGA events in 1982.

The tournament results and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1982 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1982 LPGA Tour” is golf tour season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through LPGA, Tour and golf, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 1950—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, LPGA, Tour and golf is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4580495. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1982 and 1950.

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This entry incorporates text from “1982 LPGA Tour” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.