11/12/05 -- The FUTURES Golf Tour’s Qualifying Tournament brings a new cast of young international talent to this Central Florida town each year and invariably, a fresh new face steps up and makes her initial mark in women’s professional golf.
11/10/05 -- If there is any question about the impact of young talent in women’s golf, all one needs to do is glance at the leading scores after two rounds of the FUTURES Golf Tour’s Qualifying Tournament.
11/7/05 -- A certain precocious teen named Paula Creamer showed up a year ago for the 2005 FUTURES Golf Tour Qualifying Tournament and used that event to kick off her professional rookie career.
7/24/05 -- When the $65,000 Laconia Savings Bank Futures Golf Classic ended with a nail-biting finish, Kyeong Bae, 20, waved for her mother to join her in the trophy photo.
7/9/05 -- Seul Ki Kim held it together on a maddeningly slow day and squeaked in with a one-shot lead after the first completed round of the rain-shortened event.
6/19/05 -- Jenny Gleason used a red-hot putter to scorch the back nine and fight her way to the front of the field. When she started today’s final round of the $70,000 Michelob ULTRA Futures Charity Golf Classic.
6/16/05 -- The FUTURES Golf Tour will launch its first major championship next year in Decatur, Ill., with a purse of $100,000, making it the Tour’s richest purse.
6/5/05 -- A storm named Nicole Castrale ripped through the Kankakee Valley today, blowing away her competition by four shots to win her second tournament in as many weeks at the $70,000 Quality Concepts Kankakee Futures Golf Classic.
6/4/05 -- It was a hole-by-hole fight with a slow start, but Nicole Castrale was able to hold on to her lead for the second day of the $70,000 Quality Concepts Kankakee Futures Golf Classic.
5/28/05 -- Nicole Castrale took a giant step in the right direction when she survived a two-hole playoff to win her first professional title today at the $70,000 Northwest Indiana Futures Golf Classic.
5/1/05 -- Kyeong Bae charged from behind in today’s final round of the $70,000 IOS Futures Golf Classic to win her first professional title in four starts this season.