Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship was founded in 1969 by the Ladies' Golf Union (now merged into The R&A) of Great Britain.

A stroke play tournament over 72 holes, it was discontinued by the R&A after the 2017 tournament won by Linn Grant[1] in favour of a new Girls U16 Amateur Championship.[2]

Notably, in 2000 Rebecca Hudson won the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship match play title as well as the Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship.[3] Leona Maguire, at age 16, was the youngest player to win the event.

Winners

Year Winner Score Margin
of victory
Runner(s)-up Venue Ref.
2017 Sweden Linn Grant 288 3 strokes England Hannah Screen
Northern Ireland Annabel Wilson
North Berwick Golf Club [4]
2016 England Sophie Lamb 291 2 strokes Wales Chloe Williams Knock Golf Club [5]
2015 India Aditi Ashok 285 5 strokes Republic of Ireland Olivia Mehaffey Moortown Golf Club [6]
2014 England Meghan MacLaren 292 1 stroke England Sarah-Jane Boyd Ashburnham Golf Club [7]
2013 China Jing Yan 282 2 strokes Scotland Gemma Dryburgh Prestwick Golf Club [8]
2012 England Sarah-Jane Boyd 294 2 strokes Wales Amy Boulden Shandon Park Golf Club [9]
2011 Republic of Ireland Leona Maguire 288 6 strokes Belgium Laurence Herman Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club [10]
2010 Scotland Pamela Pretswell 218 3 strokes Wales Amy Boulden Tenby Golf Club [11]
2009 Republic of Ireland Danielle McVeigh 304 1 stroke England Hannah Turland Royal Aberdeen Golf Club [12]
2008 Scotland Roseanne Niven 288 Playoff Scotland Kylie Walker Malone Golf Club [13]
2007 England Melissa Reid 290 1 stroke England Florentyna Parker Conwy Golf Club [14]
2006 Italy Anna Rossi 290 1 stroke England Rachel Bell Prince's Golf Club [15]
2005 Scotland Heather MacRae 288 Playoff Austria Nicole Gergely Nairn Golf Club [16]
2004 Scotland Clare Queen 294 Playoff Wales Stephanie Evans
England Shelley McKevit
Alwoodley Golf Club [17]
2003 England Shelley McKevitt 306 1 stroke Scotland Lynn Kenny Royal Portrush Golf Club [18]
2002 Wales Becky Brewerton 291 3 strokes Scotland Clare Queen Hunstanton Golf Club [19]
2001 England Rebecca Hudson 300 2 strokes Northern Ireland Alison Coffey Kilmarnock (Barassie) Golf Club [20]
2000 England Rebecca Hudson 294 5 strokes Scotland Heather Stirling Royal County Down Golf Club [21]
1999 Wales Becky Brewerton 294 Playoff Switzerland Niloufar Azam Huddersfield Golf Club [22]
1998 Netherlands Nienke Nijenhuis 297 1 stroke Wales Becky Morgan Stirling Golf Club [23]
1997 Denmark Karen Margrethe Juul 293 3 strokes England Elaine Ratcliffe Silloth on Solway Golf Club [24]
1996 Denmark Christina Kuld 289 4 strokes England Elaine Ratcliffe Conwy Golf Club [25]
1995 Spain Maria José Pons 289 3 strokes England Elaine Ratcliffe Prince's Golf Club [26]
1994 England Kirsty Speak 297 2 strokes Republic of Ireland Eileen Rose Power Woodhall Spa Golf Club
1993 England Julie Hall 290 6 strokes New Zealand Lynnette Brooky Gullane Golf Club [27]
1992 England Joanne Hockley 287 3 strokes England Rachel Bolas Frilford Heath Golf Club
1991 England Joanne Morley 297 2 strokes Scotland Janice Moodie Long Ashton Golf Club [28]
1990 Wales Vicki Thomas 287 1 stroke Republic of Ireland Claire Hourihane Strathaven Golf Club
1989 England Helen Dobson 298 2 strokes Australia Nadene Hall Southerness Golf Club [29]
1988 England Karen Mitchell 317 2 strokes Republic of Ireland Mary McKenna
England Julie Wade
Royal Porthcawl Golf Club [30]
1987 England Linda Bayman 297 2 strokes England Jill Thornhill
England Nicola Way
Ipswich Golf Club [31]
1986 Republic of Ireland Claire Hourihane 298 Playoff England Trish Johnson Blairgowrie Golf Club [32]
1985 Scotland Belle Robertson 305 4 strokes United States Cindy Scholefield Formby Golf Club [33]
1984 England Claire Waite 285 2 strokes Republic of Ireland Mary McKenna Conwy Golf Club [34]
1983 England Alison Nicholas 292 2 strokes Scotland Jane Connachan Moortown Golf Club [35]
1982 Scotland Jane Connachan 294 5 strokes Canada Barbara Bunkowsky
England Claire Waite
Downfield Golf Club [36]
1981 England Janet Soulsby 300 2 strokes Scotland Jane Connachan Royal Norwich Golf Club [37]
1980 Northern Ireland Maureen Madill 304 Playoff Scotland Pamela Wright Brancepeth Castle Golf Club [38]
1979 Republic of Ireland Mary McKenna 305 2 strokes Wales Vicki Rawlings Moseley Golf Club [39]
1976–1978: Contested as Women's British Open
1975 England Julia Greenhalgh 298 3 strokes Scotland Suzanne Cadden Northumberland Golf Club [40]
1974 England Julia Greenhalgh 302 3 strokes Wales Tegwen Perkins Seaton Carew Golf Club [41]
1973 England Anne Stant 298 3 strokes England Mary Everard Ipswich Golf Club [42]
1972 Scotland Belle Robertson 296 1 stroke England Michelle Walker Silloth on Solway Golf Club [43]
1971 Scotland Belle Robertson 302 3 strokes England Mary Everard Ayr Belleisle Golf Club [44]
1970 England Mary Everard 313 2 strokes England Frances Smith Royal Birkdale Golf Club [45]
1969 England Ann Irvin 295 9 strokes England Dinah Oxley Northumberland Golf Club [46]

See also

References

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