女子欧洲巡回赛 LET(Ladies European Tour) 成立于1979年， 总部在英国。

　　美国的高尔夫女子巡回赛(LPGA) 成立于1950年。 但是，欧洲的女子高尔夫发展比较缓慢。 1978年， 欧洲女子高尔夫联合会成立， 第二年，开始举办巡回赛， 这就是LET最初的开始。 1988年， 巡回赛成员决定成立一个独立的公司运营巡回赛。 1998年， 这个公司改名， 2000年， 再一次改名成为现在的名称 Ladies European Tour。 2008年， LET将总部挪到伦敦郊外的Buckinghamshire 高尔夫俱乐部。

　　欧洲的男子高尔夫虽然不敌美国， 但是基本同步。 而女子则差的很远。 2005年， LET解雇了8年来的第五个总裁， 他们找不到有效的方法和美国的LPGA竞争。 2006年以后， 欧洲的LET开始快速发展， 2008年， 他们总共有26个赛事。2009年有所减少， 但是2010年恢复到25个比赛。

　　LET奖金最丰厚的2个赛事是英国女子公开赛和在法国举办的依云大师赛(Evian Masters)。这两个比赛是LET承认的大满贯比赛。 美国的LPGA 2001年承认英国公开赛是大满贯赛赛， 并于2011年决定承认依云赛2013年升级为大满贯。 除了这两个比赛， 其他的赛赛奖金较少， 大约在20-50万英镑之间。 2010年， LET的总奖金大约是1100万英镑。

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　　英文简介

　　The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1979. It is based in England. Like many UK-based sports organisations it is a company limited by guarantee, a legal structure which enables it to focus on maximising returns to its members through prize money, rather than on making profits for investors. The tour is run by a Board of Directors and a Players' Council. Most of the players on the tour are European, and the largest non-European contingent by far comes from Australia.

　　History

　　The U.S. based LPGA was founded in 1950, but women's professional golf was slower to get established in Europe. In 1978 the Women's Professional Golf Association (WPGA) was formed as part of Professional Golfers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland and a tour was established the following year. In 1988 the tour members decided to form an independent company, the Women Professional Golfers' European Tour Limited. This new company moved away from the PGA's headquarters at The Belfry and set up its own headquarters at the Tytherington Club in Cheshire. In 1998 the Tour changed its name to European Ladies' Professional Golf Association Limited and again in July 2000 to its current name, Ladies European Tour Limited. In 2008 the tour relocated to offices at the Buckinghamshire Golf Club, which is just outside London. [1]

　　Getting a women's tour established in Europe was not easy. Whereas men's tour golf in Europe developed in parallel with that in the United States, the women's tour had to compete against a well established rival in the U.S. LPGA Tour from its foundation. In 2005 the tour dismissed its fifth chief executive in eight years as it continued to find it very difficult to compete effectively against the LPGA Tour for players and media attention, even in its home continent. However it then entered a period of growth, adding six new events in 2006 and 2007. A record 26 official money events were scheduled for the 2008 season, which also saw the introduction of a new team competition called the European Ladies Golf Cup. Also, for the first time in several years, the LET scheduled an event opposite one of the LPGA's majors, with the ABN AMRO Open held opposite the LPGA Championship. The schedule dropped to 23 official money events in 2009, but increased to 25 for 2010. In both years, the Ladies Open of Portugal was scheduled opposite the LPGA Championship.

　　Tournaments

　　There are 25 events that count towards the 2010 Order of Merit, up from 23 in 2009, but down from its peak of 28 in 2008. The two richest events by far are the Evian Masters and the Women's British Open, which are co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour and have prize funds of roughly €2.2 million and €1.7 million (fixed at US$3.25 million and 2.5 million) respectively. The other events consist of three with prize funds of approximately €500,000; seventeen with prize funds of between €200,000 and €400,000; and three whose prize funds had not yet been officially announced by the LET at the start of the season. The three half million euro events are in Switzerland, Ireland and Dubai. Total prize money in 2010 Order of Merit events is expected to approach €11 million.

　　Unlike in men's golf, the European and American tours do not share a common set of majors, although the Women's British Open is recognised as a major by both organisations. The only other event on the Ladies European Tour with "major" status is the Evian Masters, which is played in France. The Evian Masters is not recognised as a major by the LPGA, but the LPGA co-sanctions the event as part of its regular schedule. The significance of this is limited as the LPGA Tour is so dominant in global women's golf that "women's majors" usually refers to the LPGA majors, even in Europe.

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