List of Women's British Open champions

A woman in all white clothing with a red polo golf shirt underneath the sweater and the wrist and neck seems are colored in magenta and blue with a white golf hat with black lettering and a silver metal trophy in hand
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 R&A. Established in 1976, it has been recognised as a major championship by the Ladies European Tour (LET) since 1992,[1] became a recognised LPGA event in 1994, and became one of the LPGA's major championships in 2001. As of 2021 it is the fifth and last of the LPGA's five majors, preceded by the ANA Inspiration (formerly Kraft Nabisco Championship), U.S. Women's Open, the Women's PGA Championship and the Evian Championship (formerly Evian Masters). This event has always been conducted in stroke play competition.[2][3]

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.[2] The Women's British Open has had two wire-to-wire champions as a major: Jang Jeong in 2005 and Lorena Ochoa in 2007.[4]

  1. ^ "Women's Open prize up". The Times. 6 August 1991. p. 33.
  2. ^ a b "Ricoh Women's British Open" (PDF). LPGA. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  3. ^ "Tournaments-The Majors". LPGA. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  4. ^ "Major records, all". LPGA Media Center. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2011.