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Shirley Englehorn Invitational

golf tournament formerly on the LPGA Tour

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ7498743 ↗
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The Shirley Englehorn Invitational was a women's professional golf tournament in Idaho for three seasons on the LPGA Tour. It was played from 1966 to 1968, at the Purple Sage Golf Course, north of Caldwell. Tour player Shirley Englehorn, a Caldwell native, hosted the tournament and won in 1967 in a playoff. Purple Sage was one of the final designs of A.V. Macan.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 1968, 1967—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966. The account is most persuasive where Shirley, Englehorn and Invitational can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Shirley Englehorn Invitational” 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.