2006 Duramed FUTURES Tour


The 2006 Duramed FUTURES Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through September 2006 in the United States. The FUTURES Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour.
The age minimum age for participation was lowered to 17 for the 2006 season.

2006 Schedule and results

The number in parentheses after winners' names shows the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the FUTURES Tour including that event.
DatesTournamentLocationWinner
Mar 10-12Lakeland Duramed FUTURES ClassicFlorida Meaghan Francella
Mar 17-19Greater Tampa Duramed FUTURES ClassicFlorida Ashley Prange
Apr 7-9Louisiana Pelican ClassicLouisiana Song-Hee Kim
Apr 21-23The Power of a Dream Golf ClassicTexas Hye Jung Choi
Apr 28-30Jalapeno Golf ClassicTexas Kristy McPherson
May 5-7IOS Golf ClassicTexas Song-Hee Kim
May 12-14Tucson Duramed FUTURES Golf ClassicArizona Charlotte Mayorkas
June 2-4Aurora Health Care ChampionshipWisconsin Song-Hee Kim
June 9-11Team WLF.org Golf ClassicIllinois Mollie Fankhauser
June 15-18Michelob ULTRA Duramed FUTURES Players ChampionshipIllinois Salimah Mussani
June 23-25Lima Memorial Hospital FUTURES ClassicOhio Ji Min Jeong
June 30 - July 2Northwest Indiana FUTURES Golf ClassicIndiana Ashley Prange
July 14-16CIGNA Golf ClassicConnecticut Song-Hee Kim
July 21-23Alliance Bank Golf ClassicNew York Ha-Na Chae
Aug 4-6Laconia Savings Bank Golf ClassicNew Hampshire Charlotte Mayorkas
Aug 11-13Betty Puskar Golf ClassicWest Virginia Kristy McPherson
Aug 18-20Hunters Oak Golf ClassicMaryland Ashley Hoagland
Aug 25-27The Gettysburg ChampionshipPennsylvania Song-Hee Kim
Sep 8-10ILOVENY ChampionshipNew York Ji Min Jeong

Tournaments in bold are majors.

2006 Leading money winners

These top five money winners at the end of the 2006 season were awarded fully exempt status on the LPGA Tour for the 2007 season.
PositionPlayerCountryEarnings
1Song-Hee Kim76,287
2Charlotte Mayorkas66,351
3Inbee Park49,079
4Kristy McPherson40,558
5Meaghan Francella39,416

Major tournament

In 2006, the FUTURES Tour held its first major tournament. The Michelob ULTRA FUTURES Players Championship in Decatur, Illinois, which has been on the Tour's schedule since 1985, was the Tour's first 72-hole event, and carried the Tour's largest purse ever — $100,000. The winner, Salimah Mussani, received a sponsor's exemption to play in the LPGA's State Farm Classic in September, 2006. Mussani, a native of Canada, also played in the CN Canadian Women's Open, an August 2006 event on the LPGA Tour.

2006 traffic death

On June 18, 2006, while driving from a tournament in Decatur, Illinois to the next tournament in Lima, Ohio, Futures Tour player Gaelle Truet was killed in a car accident at age 27. She was the first Tour player to perish in a traffic incident in the 26 years of the Futures Tour and the 50 years of the LPGA Tour.