Safeway Classic money tops LPGA

The Safeway Classic’s most successful year got this as an exclamation point: $1.1 million. That’s how much Portland’s LPGA golf tournament raised for local children’s charities in 2007, tournament organizers announced Wednesday.

The figure is a record for the tournament, bettering the $1.01 million donated in 2006, and brought the total contributions in the event’s 36 years to more than $12 million.

The figure also is the highest on the LPGA Tour for 2007, made even more impressive by the fact that the Safeway Classic is a three-round event. The 2007 LPGA Tour schedule had 31 official events, with 22 played over four rounds.

 – Excerpt from The Oregonian, December 20, 2007