The ShopRite LPGA Classic , known in full for sponsorship reasons as The ShopRite LPGA Classic Presented by Acer , is a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour in Galloway, New Jersey , near Atlantic City . It took place annually from 1986 through 2006 and returned to the tour schedule in 2010 at the Bay Course at the Dolce Seaview Resort, with a prize fund of $ 1.75 million. Purchased in September 2010, the resort is now known as Seaview, A Dolce Hotel .
22-643: From 1986 through 2006, the tournament was played at two different courses near Atlantic City, with the first two and last nine years played on the Bay Course of the Seaview Marriott Resort . It was a 54-hole tournament played over three days, except for 1990 when it was a four-day, 72-hole event. For a decade (1988–97), the event was played at Greate Bay Country Club in Somers Point , known as Sands Country Club until 1991. The tournament
44-490: A 60-foot (18 m) chip shot for birdie on the 35th hole. A composite course was used for the event, using the front nine of the Bay Course coupled with the nine holes designed by Flynn. In 1986 , the Bay Course hosted the inaugural Atlantic City Classic , an LPGA Tour event, and did so again the following year. The tournament, by then named the ShopRite LPGA Classic , returned in 1998 and remained at
66-578: A fitness center, and a spa. On September 1, 2010, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey took ownership of the hotel and the Bay course. On August 1, 2018, it was announced that The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey sold the club to Florida-based KDG Capital LLC for $ 21 million. The golf club dates from 1914, when public utility magnate Clarence H. Geist founded the Seaview Country Club . The original golf course, known today as
88-486: A low-interest loan to Boca Raton to finance its first municipal water plant (which he convinced Boca Raton it needed) and provide water for the guests at his new hotel. He built it in Mizner's style, for visual harmony. At the time, the handsome, Mediterranean-style plant was the most modern in the state. (It was replaced by a much larger plant in 1956, parts having become unavailable for the original equipment. The building
110-723: A new tournament, the Ginn Tribute Hosted by Annika . After being unable to agree with the LPGA on new dates, the owners decided to end the tournament. ShopRite retained a presence on the LPGA Tour in 2007 as the presenting sponsor of the Sybase Classic . Under the leadership of Eiger Marketing Group in 2009, the LPGA Tour announced that the ShopRite LPGA Classic would return to the schedule in 2010, as
132-702: A three-day tournament to be played at the same course. The resort on which the course sits was renamed the Dolce Seaview Resort in 2009 after Dolce Hotels took over management from Marriott. Following the purchase by the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey for $ 20 million in September 2010, it was renamed the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club. The name of property was changed to Seaview, A Dolce Hotel, when it
154-619: A year on the Rock Island Railroad as a conductor, and subsequent to that entered the real estate business and served as president of the Cottage Building and Loan in Blue Island. Geist then set himself up as a natural gas distributor, where he supplied gas to Blue Island, Morgan Park , then a suburb of Chicago, and Illinois suburbs south of Blue Island that included Harvey and Chicago Heights . His wife
176-717: The PGA Championship in 1942 , the first of seven majors won by Sam Snead . Source: Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records. 39°26′53″N 74°28′23″W / 39.448°N 74.473°W / 39.448; -74.473 Seaview (Absecon) The Seaview is a golf club and resort on the East Coast of the United States , located in Galloway Township , New Jersey , north of nearby Atlantic City . The club hosted
198-456: The ShopRite LPGA Classic in 1986-87, from 1998-2006 and again starting in 2010. During World War II , it hosted the PGA Championship in 1942 , Sam Snead 's first major title. The course also cooperates with Rutgers University on testing of new turf breeds and natural control of mosquitoes . The resort has two golf courses, Bay and Pines, and a 300-room hotel with tennis courts, swimming pools, two mini basketball courts, jogging trails,
220-402: The Bay Course, was partially designed by Hugh Wilson (who also designed the two courses at Merion Golf Club ). In 1915, Donald Ross completed the course by adding the sand bunkers. In 1998, the course was restored by Bob Cupp Jr. to be close to the original design. Today the course plays as a par 71, 6,155 yards (5,628 m), or 6,247 yards (5,712 m) from the back tees. In 2006,
242-697: The club through 2006 , and was revived as an annual event in 2010 . Sources: Clarence H. Geist Clarence Henry Geist (1866 – June 12, 1938) was an American financier who played an important role in the early history of Boca Raton, Florida . Clarence Geist was born and raised on a farm in LaPorte County, Indiana . When he was 18 he left Indiana and spent five years in the far West working in cattle ranching, but returned East when he realized he "could not make money where there wasn't any". He settled in Blue Island, Illinois and worked for
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#1732797631628264-601: The course is 6,731 yards (6,155 m) from the back tees and is also a par 71. In 1984, the Marriott Corporation bought the club, and turned it into a resort open to the public. Marriott sold the property to LaSalle Hotel Properties in 1998, but continued to manage it until 2009. Marriott Vacation Club owns the adjacent Fairway Villas vacation condominium complex and the Pines course, but both courses and recreational facilities are seamlessly open to guests from
286-466: The hole numbers were rearranged to improve logistics. In 1929, the club opened a nine-hole course designed by William S. Flynn and Howard C. Toomey. A second nine holes were built by Flynn disciple William Gordon in 1957, and the rearranged layout became known as the Pines Course. Three holes were removed in 1990 to make room for a practice facility, with replacements designed by Al Janis. Today,
308-542: The hotel and the vacation club. Dolce Hotels and Resorts took over management of the hotel and Troon Golf was retained to manage the golf courses. In 2009, Seaview was honored by Golfweek magazine as one of the “Best Courses You Can Play” in New Jersey, and by Golf World magazine with a 2009 Readers' Choice Award. In July 2010, it was reported that the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
330-610: The new resort of Boca Raton, Geist bought its assets in 1927 via an anonymous bid of $ 76,350. Included were the Cloister Inn , fifty houses, and 15,000 acres of land. He commissioned the New York architectural firm Schultze and Weaver to create an addition to the 100-room Cloister Inn, resulting in the 450-room Boca Raton Club , which accepted its first guests in December, 1929, ahead of its 1930 formal opening. Geist made
352-596: Was Florence Hewitt Geist. Although he walked with a cane he was an avid golfer, participating in tournaments. From 1912 to 1938 he was the principal owner of the Indianapolis Water Company . Geist Reservoir (1943) is named for him. He also founded in 1910 the company today known as South Jersey Industries , when the Atlantic City Gas and Water Company merged with Atlantic City Gas Company. He eventually owned over 100 utilities. Geist
374-828: Was a friend of Charles G. Dawes , who in 1925 became Calvin Coolidge 's Vice-President. Geist left Indiana first to work for the Dawes family in Chicago. In 1924 he had built in Palm Beach La Claridad , a mansion designed by Palm Beach architect Marion Sims Wyeth , who also designed Mar-a-Lago . He was a member of the Everglades Club , and the mansion was built on the club grounds (which covered several blocks). When Addison Mizner 's Mizner Development Corporation went bankrupt in 1926 after trying to build
396-617: Was demolished and the site currently houses Boca's City Hall.) He also paid for an elegant, Mediterranean-style depot on the Florida East Coast Railway (in 2017 operated by the Boca Raton Historical Society as a museum). Geist allegedly bought stock in the railroad in order to influence its choice of Boca Raton depot. He died at his home in Villanova, Pennsylvania on June 12, 1938 and
418-617: Was interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania . At the time of his death it was reported at one time that Geist was reputed to be worth $ 100,000,000 ($ 1.93 billion in 2021) The bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway on Mizner's Camino Real is officially the Clarence H. Geist Memorial Bridge (1939), replacing a temporary swing bridge built by Geist. A Clarence H. Geist Memorial Organ (1940)
440-409: Was negotiating with LaSalle Hotel Properties regarding the possible purchase of the hotel. On September 1, 2010, Stockton College finalized the deal for 20 million. The Seaview Country Club hosted the 1942 PGA Championship , then a match play event. Sam Snead won the final match at 2 & 1 over Jim Turnesa to claim the first of his seven major championships . He closed out the match by holing
462-549: Was originally known as the Atlantic City LPGA Classic . Its name was changed in 1992 to the ShopRite LPGA Classic when Wakefern Food Corporation took over as the sponsor. In 2013, Acer , a Taiwanese computer hardware and electronics company, was added as a presenting sponsor. Starting in the 2007 season, the LPGA decided to use the traditional ShopRite Classic dates in early June for
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#1732797631628484-504: Was purchased by KDG Capital LLC in July 2018. Multiple winners of the event are Betsy King (1987, 1995, 2001), Annika Sörenstam (1998, 2002, 2005), Juli Inkster (1986, 1988), Stacy Lewis (2012, 2014) and Anna Nordqvist (2015, 2016). There have been two playoffs, in 1988 and 1992. Bay Course Source: The Bay Course was partially designed 110 years ago in 1914 by Hugh Irvine Wilson , then finished in 1915 by Donald Ross . It hosted
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