Morgan To Compete At Portland's LPGA Event
August 11, 2015 | Women's Golf
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State women's golf volunteer assistant coach Becky Morgan will compete at the Cambia Portland Classic Presented by Cambia Health Solutions this week.
The tournament begins on Thursday and will be held at the Columbia Edgewater Country Club in Portland. The LPGA returns to the City of Roses for the 44th year, making it the longest-running non-major event on Tour. This is the 29th consecutive year it has been held at the Columbia Edgewater Country Club.
Tickets to the tournament can be purchased for $10 a day or $25 for the week at this link. It's a 72-hole event playing to 6,476 yards with a purse of $1.3 million. The Golf Channel will televise the tournament each day. Click this link for TV times.
Through 2014, the tournament has raised over $17 million for a variety of local organizations, including the American Red Cross, the Forest Park Conservancy, Friendly House, the Girl Scouts of Oregon and SW Washington, Returning Veterans Project and Special Olympics Oregon.
Morgan, who is in her second year as a volunteer assistant coach with the Beavers, has career earnings of more than $2.4 million on the LPGA Tour. She turned professional in August 2000 and qualified for the Tour on her first attempt by tying for 14th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament.
In 2003, Morgan finished second at the ShopRite LPGA Classic, the best LPGA finish of her career. In 2005, she teamed up with Becky Brewerton to finish sixth at the Women's World Cup of Golf and paired with Brewerton again in 2006 and 2007 to finish third and eighth respectively.
