Kingsmill Championship
| Location | Williamsburg, Virginia |
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| Established | 2003, fourteen years ago |
| Course(s) |
Kingsmill Resort, River Course |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 6,379 yards (5,833 m) |
| Organized by | Kingsmill Resort |
| Tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
| Format | Stroke play - 72 holes |
| Prize fund | $1.3 million |
| Month played | May |
| Aggregate | 265 Annika Sörenstam (2008) |
| To par | −19 Annika Sörenstam (2008) |
 Ariya Jutanugarn
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The Kingsmill Championship is a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour, played in Williamsburg, Virginia. The four round, 72-hole tournament is played on the par-71 River Course at Kingsmill Resort, set at 6,340 yards (5,797 m) in 2013.
Previously known as the "Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill," the tournament was founded fourteen years ago in 2003 and played for seven seasons. Absent in 2010 and 2011, it returned for the 2012 season in early September, and switched to early May in 2013.
The LPGA event succeeded the Michelob Championship at Kingsmill, an annual PGA Tour event held for 22 years, from 1981 through 2002.
Held at the Kingsmill Resort just south of Williamsburg, it formerly had one of the highest purses on the LPGA Tour, which attracted a very competitive field. It was voted the players' favorite stop on the tour in 2007 and fans' favorite tournament in 2008.
With a purse of $2.2 million, the winner of this LPGA tournament automatically qualified for the season-ending LPGA Playoffs at The ADT, during the years the Playoffs were held, from 2006 through 2008. The purse for the revived event in 2012 was $1.3 million.
The tournament was sponsored by Michelob ULTRA beer, and its parent company Anheuser-Busch. As of 2007, Anheuser-Busch had donated over $1.3 million to 30 different charities through the event. At the 2009 tournament, there was speculation that Anheuser-Busch would not continue its sponsorship; the late-2000s recession and the company's pending acquisition by InBev were among the factors.
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