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 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 Chevron Championship (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]

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

Champions

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Karen Stupples won in 2004 by the lowest score.
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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  South Korea Se Ri Pak Sunningdale Golf Club Sunningdale Berkshire England 277 −11 [5]
2002  Australia Karrie Webb Turnberry Golf Club, Ailsa Course South Ayrshire Ayrshire Scotland 273 −15 [6]
2003  Sweden Annika Sörenstam Royal Lytham & St Annes G.C. Lytham St Annes Lancashire England 278 −10 [7]
2004  England Karen Stupples Sunningdale Golf Club Sunningdale Berkshire England 269 −19 [8]
2005‡  South Korea Jeong Jang Royal Birkdale Golf Club Southport Merseyside England 272 −16 [9][10]
2006  United States Sherri Steinhauer Royal Lytham & St Annes G.C. Lytham St Annes Lancashire England 281 −7 [11]
2007‡  Mexico Lorena Ochoa Old Course at St Andrews St Andrews Fife Scotland 287 −5 [12]
2008  South Korea Jiyai Shin Sunningdale Golf Club Sunningdale Berkshire England 270 −18 [13]
2009  Scotland Catriona Matthew Royal Lytham & St Annes G.C. Lytham St Annes Lancashire England 285 −3 [14]
2010  Taiwan Yani Tseng Royal Birkdale Golf Club Southport Merseyside England 277 −11 [15]
2011  Taiwan Yani Tseng Carnoustie Golf Links Carnoustie Angus Scotland 272 −16 [16]
2012  South Korea Jiyai Shin Royal Liverpool Golf Club Hoylake Merseyside England 279 −9
2013  United States Stacy Lewis Old Course at St Andrews St Andrews Fife Scotland 280 −8
2014  United States Mo Martin Royal Birkdale Golf Club Southport Merseyside England 287 −1
2015  South Korea Inbee Park Trump Turnberry South Ayrshire Ayrshire Scotland 276 −12
2016  Thailand Ariya Jutanugarn Woburn Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire England 272 −16
2017  South Korea In-Kyung Kim Kingsbarns Fife Fife Scotland 270 −18
2018  England Georgia Hall Royal Lytham & St Annes G.C. Lytham St Annes Lancashire England 271 −17
2019  Japan Hinako Shibuno Woburn Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire England 270 −18
2020  Germany Sophia Popov Royal Troon Troon South Ayrshire Scotland 277 −7
2021  Sweden Anna Nordqvist Carnoustie Golf Links Carnoustie Angus Scotland 276 −12
2022  South Africa Ashleigh Buhai Muirfield Golf Links Gullane East Lothian Scotland 274 −10
2023  United States Lilia Vu Walton Heath Golf Club Surrey South East England 274 −14
2024  New Zealand Lydia Ko Old Course at St Andrews St Andrews Fife Scotland 281 −7
2025  Japan Miyū Yamashita Royal Porthcawl Golf Club Porthcawl Wales 277 −14

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).

RankNationalityWinsChampionsFirst titleLast title
1 South Korea6520012017
2 United States4420062023
T3 England2220042018
 Japan2220192025
 Sweden2220032021
 Taiwan2120102011
T7 Australia112002
 Germany112020
 Mexico112007
 New Zealand112024
 Scotland112009
 South Africa112022
 Thailand112016

Notes

a This tournament has had several names, which are the following; 2001–2006: Weetabix Women's British Open, 2007–2018: Ricoh Women's British Open, 2019: AIG Women's British Open, 2020–present AIG Women's Open.[17]

See also

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