Women's Victorian Open

The Women's Victorian Open is an annual golf tournament held in Australia. It was founded in 1988 and played annually through 1992. After a 20-year hiatus it returned in 2012 as a tournament on the WPGA Tour of Australasia.[1]

Women's Victorian Open
Tournament information
LocationBarwon Heads, Victoria, Australia
Established1988
Course(s)13th Beach Golf Links (Beach and Creek Courses)
Par72
Tour(s)WPGA Tour of Australasia
LPGA Tour (2019–2020)
Ladies European Tour (2017–2018)
FormatStroke play
Prize fundA$420,000
Month playedFebruary
Current champion
Malaysia Ashley Lau
Location map
13th Beach Golf Links is located in Australia
13th Beach Golf Links
13th Beach Golf Links
Location in Australia
13th Beach Golf Links is located in Victoria
13th Beach Golf Links
13th Beach Golf Links
Location in Victoria
13th Beach is located in Melbourne
13th Beach
13th
Beach
Location in greater Melbourne

This was the first time the men's Victorian Open and women's Victorian Open were held concurrently - making it the only professional golf tournament in the world where men and women played the same courses, at the same time, for equal prize money.

In 2013, the men's and women's Victorian Opens moved to 13th Beach Golf Links in Barwon Heads, southwest of Melbourne, near the southwest shore (Bass Strait) of the Bellarine Peninsula.

When the tournament moved to 13th Beach Golf Links in 2013, the combined prize pool was A$300,000, with $150,000 on offer for each of the men's and women's fields.

In six years, the total prize pool has increased ten-fold, with the 2019 men's and women's Victorian Open fields to be playing for a total purse of $3 million ($1.5 million each).

In 2017 and 2018, the event were co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour and the ALPG Tour. Like its men's counterpart, it is a two-cut tournament. The field is reduced to 60 after the second round and 35 after the third round; those who fail to make the second cut earn prize money.

The event was co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour in 2019 and 2020. It is played alongside the men's Victorian Open. The double cut continues; 65 players will remain after the first cut, then 35 players after the Saturday cut.[2]

Winners

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Year Tour(s)[a] Winner Country Score To par Venue Purse (A$) Ref
Vic Open
2024 WPGA Ashley Lau   Malaysia 277 −12 13th Beach Golf Links 420,000
2023 WPGA Jiyai Shin   South Korea 275 −14 13th Beach Golf Links 420,000
2022 WPGA Hannah Green   Australia 276 −13 13th Beach Golf Links 410,000
2021 Tournament cancelled
ISPS Handa Vic Open
2020 ALPG · LPGA Park Hee-young   South Korea 281PO −8 13th Beach Golf Links US$1,100,000 [b]
2019 ALPG · LPGA Céline Boutier   France 281 −8 13th Beach Golf Links US$1,100,000
Oates Vic Open
2018 ALPG · LET Minjee Lee (2)   Australia 279 −13 13th Beach Golf Links 650,000 [c]
2017 ALPG · LET Melissa Reid   England 276PO −16 13th Beach Golf Links 650,000 [d]
2016 ALPG Georgia Hall   England 281 −11 13th Beach Golf Links 300,000
2015 ALPG Marianne Skarpnord   Norway 279 −13 13th Beach Golf Links 250,000
2014 ALPG Minjee Lee (a)   Australia 279 −17 13th Beach Golf Links 150,000
Women's Victorian Open
2013 ALPG Stacey Keating   Australia 278 −18 13th Beach Golf Links 150,000
2012 ALPG Joanna Klatten   France 212 −7 Woodlands/Spring Valley
1993–2011: No tournament
Heart Health Victorian Women's Open
1992 ALPG Wendy Doolan   Australia 211 −5 Yarra Yarra
1991 ALPG Jennifer Wyatt   Canada 222 E Woodlands
Women's Victorian Open
1990 ALPG Dale Reid   Scotland 212 −10 Commonwealth [3]
1989 ALPG Susan Tonkin   Australia 227 +5 Commonwealth
1988 ALPG Helen Hopkins   Australia 219 −3 Commonwealth
  1. ^ ALPG − ALPG Tour; LET − Ladies European Tour; LPGA − LPGA Tour; WPGA − WPGA Tour of Australasia.
  2. ^ 2020: Park Hee-young beat Choi Hye-jin with par on fourth extra hole, with Ryu So-yeon eliminated by birdie on second holes
  3. ^ 2018: Minjee Lee won her second Victorian Open title, after winning her first as an amateur in 2014.
  4. ^ 2017: Reid beat Sandra Gal at the third hole of a sudden-death playoff

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Tournament results: Vic Open (Women)". Where2golf. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Five thing to know – ISPS Handa Vic Open". PGA European Tour. 4 February 2019.
  3. ^ McMahon, Peg (3 December 1990). "Reid so nearly as good as her word". The Age. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
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