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Daikin Orchid Ladies Golf Tournament

annual event on the LPGA of Japan Tour

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ11316743 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Daikin Orchid Ladies Golf Tournament is an annual event on the LPGA of Japan Tour. It was first held in March 1988 at the Ryukyu GC in Okinawa Prefecture. The prize money in 2025 was ¥120,000,000 with ¥21,600,000 going to the winner.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Daikin Orchid Ladies Golf Tournament” is annual event on the LPGA of Japan Tour. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Daikin, Orchid and Ladies, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988. For this dossier, Daikin, Orchid and Ladies is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “annual event on the LPGA of Japan Tour” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11316743. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 2025.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Daikin Orchid Ladies Golf Tournament”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Daikin Orchid Ladies Golf Tournament primary sources, Daikin Orchid Ladies Golf Tournament archive and Daikin research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Daikin Orchid Ladies Golf Tournament”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Daikin Orchid Ladies Golf Tournament” 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.