Sara Lee Classic

The Sara Lee Classic was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1988 to 2002.[1][2] It was played at Hermitage Golf Course in Old Hickory, Tennessee from 1988 to 1999. In 2000, the tournament moved to the Legends Club of Tennessee in Franklin, Tennessee and changed its name to the Electrolux USA Championship.[3] The tournament was hosted by singers Vince Gill and Amy Grant in its final three years.

Winners

Aerus Electrolux USA Championship Hosted by Vince Gill and Amy Grant
Electrolux USA Championship Hosted by Vince Gill and Amy Grant
Sara Lee Classic

Tournament highlights

1992 fire

Three-time LPGA Tour winner Cathy Gerring suffered severe burns after finishing her second round of play in that year's Sara Lee Classic. Gerring was in a buffet line at a tournament hospitality tent when a catering employee tried to restart a fire with denatured alcohol. Flames erupted, engulfing Gerring from the waist up. Gerring was immediately taken to a nearby burn unit.[8]

Gerring did not play pro golf again until 1996, but never recovered her form. Three years after the accident, Gerring settled a lawsuit she filed against the catering company whose employee caused the fire to happen.[9]

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