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
Ashley Lau
Location map
13th Beach Golf Links
Location in Australia
13th Beach Golf Links
Location in Victoria
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
YearTour(s)[lower-alpha 1]WinnerCountryScoreTo parVenuePurse (A$)Ref
Vic Open
2024WPGAAshley Lau Malaysia277−1213th Beach Golf Links420,000
2023WPGAJiyai Shin South Korea275−1413th Beach Golf Links420,000
2022WPGAHannah Green Australia276−1313th Beach Golf Links410,000
2021Tournament cancelled
ISPS Handa Vic Open
2020ALPG · LPGAPark Hee-young South Korea281PO−813th Beach Golf LinksUS$1,100,000[lower-alpha 2]
2019ALPG · LPGACéline Boutier France281−813th Beach Golf LinksUS$1,100,000
Oates Vic Open
2018ALPG · LETMinjee Lee (2) Australia279−1313th Beach Golf Links650,000[lower-alpha 3]
2017ALPG · LETMelissa Reid England276PO−1613th Beach Golf Links650,000[lower-alpha 4]
2016ALPGGeorgia Hall England281−1113th Beach Golf Links300,000
2015ALPGMarianne Skarpnord  Norway279−1313th Beach Golf Links250,000
2014ALPGMinjee Lee (a) Australia279−1713th Beach Golf Links150,000
Women's Victorian Open
2013ALPGStacey Keating Australia278−1813th Beach Golf Links150,000
2012ALPGJoanna Klatten France212−7Woodlands/Spring Valley
1993–2011: No tournament
Heart Health Victorian Women's Open
1992ALPGWendy Doolan Australia211−5Yarra Yarra
1991ALPGJennifer Wyatt Canada222EWoodlands
Women's Victorian Open
1990ALPGDale Reid Scotland212−10Commonwealth[3]
1989ALPGSusan Tonkin Australia227+5Commonwealth
1988ALPGHelen Hopkins Australia219−3Commonwealth
  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

References
  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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