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 ALPG Tour.

Women's Victorian Open
Tournament information
LocationBarwon Heads,
Victoria, Australia
Established1988
Course(s)13th Beach Golf Links (Beach and Creek Courses)
Par72
Tour(s)ALPG Tour
LPGA Tour  (2019–)
Ladies European Tour (2017–2018)
FormatStroke play
Prize fundA$1.5 million
Month playedFebruary
Current champion
Park Hee-young
13th Beach
Location in Australia
13th Beach 
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).

Since 2017, the event became 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.

Starting in 2019, the event is now co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour, and will continue to be played alongside the men's Victorian Open, now co-sanctioned by the European Tour. The double cut continues; 65 players will remain after the first cut, then 35 players after the Saturday cut.[1]

Winners
As an LPGA Tour event
YearWinnerCountryScoreVenuePurseWinner's
share
2020Park Hee-young South Korea281PO13th Beach Golf LinksUS$1,100,000US$165,000
2019Céline Boutier France28913th Beach Golf Links1,100,000165,000
YearWinnerCountryScoreVenue
2018Minjee Lee (2) Australia27913th Beach Golf Links
2017Melissa Reid England276PO13th Beach Golf Links
2016Georgia Hall England28113th Beach Golf Links
2015Marianne Skarpnord  Norway27913th Beach Golf Links
2014Minjee Lee (a) Australia27913th Beach Golf Links
2013Stacey Keating Australia27813th Beach Golf Links
2012Joanna Klatten France212Woodlands/Spring Valley
1993–2011 – No tournament
1992Wendy Doolan Australia211Yarra Yarra
1991Jennifer Wyatt Canada222Woodlands
1990Dale Reid Scotland212Commonwealth
1989Susan Tonkin Australia227Commonwealth
1988Helen Hopkins Australia219Commonwealth

In 2017 Reid beat Sandra Gal at the third hole of a sudden-death playoff and in 2018, Minjee Lee won her second Victorian Open title, after winning her first as an amateur in 2014.

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See also

References
  1. "Five thing to know – ISPS Handa Vic Open". PGA European Tour. 4 February 2019.

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