The Women's Irish Open is a professional
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
tournament on the
Ladies European Tour
The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1978. It is based at Buckinghamshire Golf Club near London in England. Like many UK-based sports organisations it is a company limited by guarantee, a legal stru ...
(LET), held in the
Republic of Ireland
Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island. A ...
.
The tournament became part of the LET schedule in 1994 and ran for ten editions through 2003. After a four-year hiatus, the tournament was revived again in
2008
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as part of the buildup to the
2011
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Solheim Cup
The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the United States. It is named after the Norwegian-American golf club manufacturer Karsten Solheim, who was a driving force beh ...
, scheduled for late September at
Killeen Castle in
County Meath
County Meath (; gle, Contae na MÃ or simply ) is a county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. It is bordered by Dublin to the southeast, Louth to the northeast, Kildare to the south, Offaly to the sou ...
. Killeen Castle hosted the Ladies Irish Open in early August, the week following the
Women's British Open
The Women's Open (originally known as the Women's British Open, and still widely referred to by that name outside the UK) is a women's major golf championships, major championship in Professional golf tours#Women's tours, women's professional go ...
. Last played in 2012, the tournament returned in 2022, now held at
Dromoland Castle
Dromoland Castle ( ga, Drom Ólainn) is a castle, located near Newmarket-on-Fergus in County Clare, Ireland. It is operated as a five-star luxury hotel with a golf course, with its restaurant, the "Earl of Thomond", being awarded a Michel ...
in
County Clare.
At St. Margaret's in 1995,
Laura Davies recorded a 72-hole total of 267 (−25), 16 strokes clear of runner-up
Ã…sa Gottmo, setting world records for the lowest aggregate score and the biggest margin of victory in women's professional golf.
Multiple winners are
Sophie Gustafson (1998, 2000, 2003, 2010),
Suzann Pettersen
Suzann Pettersen (born 7 April 1981) is a retired Norwegian professional golfer. She played mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour, and was also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Her career best world ranking was second and she held that position ...
(2008, 2011) and
Laura Davies (1994, 1995).
Winners
Source:
See also
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Northern Ireland Ladies Open
The Northern Ireland Ladies Open was a professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour (LET) held in Northern Ireland.
A Northern Ireland tournament was a fixture on the LET schedule since the tour's inception in 1979. In 1984 the tourn ...
*
Irish Open
References
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External links
Ladies Irish Open- official site
Ladies European Tour- official site
Irish Open
Golf tournaments in the Republic of Ireland
Recurring sporting events established in 1994
1994 establishments in Ireland