1982 Ladies European Tour

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{{Infobox golf season

| year = 1982

| tour = Ladies European Tour

| regular_season = {{nowrap|{{Start date|1983|5|}} – {{end date|1983|10|}}}}

| no_of_events = 18

| honor1 = Order of Merit

| honoree1 = {{flagicon|ENG}} Jenny Lee Smith

| prevseason = 1981

| nextseason = 1983

}}

The 1982 Ladies European Tour was the fourth season of golf tournaments organised by the Women's Professional Golfers' Association (WPGA), which later became the Ladies European Tour (LET). There were ten tournaments on the schedule including the Women's British Open, organised by the Ladies' Golf Union.

The tour experienced difficulties during 1982. Having lost several sponsors during 1981 due to economic problems,{{cite news |last=Hennessy |first=John |title=Bleak prspect of drop in prize money for women |newspaper=The Times |date=17 March 1981 |page=11 |via=The Times Digital Archive |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS185567345/TTDA?u=bli_ttda&sid=TTDA&xid=eb2ad817 |access-date=24 September 2020 |url-access=limited}} their principal supporter Carlsberg had also departed.{{cite news |title=Sponsors sought for Balgownie |newspaper=Aberdeen Press and Journal |date=16 February 1982 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19820216/332/0018 |via=British Newspaper Archive |access-date=25 September 2020 |url-access=subscription}} Twelve new tournaments were planned to fill out the calendar but only half took place, including Ford Ladies Classic and the Ladies Spanish Open. Plans for new events in Ireland, France, West Germany and Portugal{{cite news |last=Hennessy |first=John |title=Women in the money |newspaper=Times |date=16 February 1982 |page=17 |via=The Times Digital Archive |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS287935056/TTDA?u=bli_ttda&sid=TTDA&xid=8f75d338 |accessdate=25 September 2020}} were abandoned, and several other tournaments were cancelled during the season, including the British Women's Matchplay and two of the new events.

The Order of Merit was won for the second time by Jenny Lee Smith, who again dominated the season with one win and five runner-up finishes; her £12,551 in prize money put her more than £5,500 clear of runner-up Rosie Jones.