List of Women's British Open champions

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Yani Tseng, the only golfer to date to win two Women's British Opens as a major championship consecutively in 2010 and 2011. Tseng is pictured with the championship trophy.

The Women's British Open[a] is an annual golf competition held at the end of July start of August, and is conducted by the Ladies' Golf Union. Established in 1976, it has been recognised as a major championship by the Ladies European Tour (LET) since that tour's inception in 1979, became a recognised LPGA event in 1994, and became one of the LPGA's major championships in 2001. Currently, it is the last of the LPGA's four majors, preceded by the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the LPGA Championship, and the U.S. Women's Open.[1][2] This event has always been conducted in stroke play competition.[1][3] Beginning in 2013, it will be the next-to-last major championship of the season, as the Evian Masters, a tournament held in France that is also an LET major, will become the LPGA's fifth major and move to September.[4]

Yani Tseng's victories in 2010 and 2011 and Jiyai Shin's in 2008 and 2012 make them the only two golfers to win the event twice since it became an LPGA major. The only other golfers to successfully defend their titles are Debbie Massey in 1980 and 1981, before the tournament became a part of the LPGA tour, and Sherri Steinhauer in 1998 and 1999, when it was a sanctioned LPGA event but not yet a major.

The lowest winning score in the tournament's history as an LPGA major is Karen Stupples's 19-under par 269 aggregate in 2004, equalling the record score set by Karrie Webb in 1997.[1] The Women's British Open has had two wire-to-wire champions as a major, which are the following: Jang Jeong in 2005 and Lorena Ochoa in 2007.[5]

Key

† Tournament won in a playoff
Wire-to-wire victory (as a major) Wire-to-wire victory (as a major)

Champions

File:2009 Women's British Open - Karen Stupples (13).jpg
Karen Stupples won in 2004 by the lowest score.
File:2010 Women's British Open – Shin Jiyai (10).jpg
Jiyai Shin won by the widest margin of nine strokes in 2012, and is a two-time champion.
Year Country Champion Course City Region Country Total
score		 To
par		 Notes
2001  KOR Se Ri Pak Sunningdale Golf Club Sunningdale Berkshire England 277 −11 [6]
2002  AUS Karrie Webb Turnberry Golf Club, Ailsa Course South Ayrshire Ayrshire Scotland 273 −15 [7]
2003  SWE Annika Sörenstam Royal Lytham & St Annes G.C. Lytham St Annes Lancashire England 278 −10 [8]
2004  ENG Karen Stupples Sunningdale Golf Club Sunningdale Berkshire England 269 −19 [9]
2005Wire-to-wire victory (as a major)  KOR Jeong Jang Royal Birkdale Golf Club Southport Merseyside England 272 −16 [10][11]
2006  USA Sherri Steinhauer Royal Lytham & St Annes G.C. Lytham St Annes Lancashire England 281 −7 [12]
2007Wire-to-wire victory (as a major)  MEX Lorena Ochoa Old Course at St Andrews St Andrews Fife Scotland 287 −5 [13]
2008  KOR Jiyai Shin Sunningdale Golf Club Sunningdale Berkshire England 270 −18 [14]
2009  SCO Catriona Matthew Royal Lytham & St Annes G.C. Lytham St Annes Lancashire England 285 −3 [15]
2010  TWN Yani Tseng Royal Birkdale Golf Club Southport Merseyside England 277 −11 [16]
2011  TWN Yani Tseng Carnoustie Golf Links Carnoustie Angus Scotland 272 −16 [17]
2012  KOR Jiyai Shin Royal Liverpool Golf Club Hoylake Merseyside England 279 −9
2013  USA Stacy Lewis Old Course at St Andrews St Andrews Fife Scotland 280 −8
2014  USA Mo Martin Royal Birkdale Golf Club Southport Merseyside England 287 −1
2015  KOR Inbee Park Trump Turnberry South Ayrshire Ayrshire Scotland 276 −12

Multiple champions

This table lists the golfers who have won more than one Women's British Open as a major. Champions who won in consecutive years are indicated by the years with italics*.

Key
1 First place
Rank Country Golfer Total Years
1  Taiwan Yani Tseng 2 2010*, 2011*
1  South Korea Jiyai Shin 2 2008, 2012

Champions by nationality

This table lists the total number of titles won by golfers of each nationality as an LPGA major (2001–present).

Rank Nationality Wins Champions First title Last title
1  South Korea 5 4 2001 2015
2  United States 3 3 2006 2014
3  Taiwan 2 1 2010 2011
T3  Australia 1 1 2002
 England 1 1 2004
 Mexico 1 1 2007
 Sweden 1 1 2003
 Scotland 1 1 2009

Notes

a This tournament has had two name changes, which are the following; 2001–2006 Weetabix Women's British Open and 2007–present Ricoh Women's British Open.[2]

See also

References

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