The Ladies European Open was a women's 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 ...
held in
England
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and
Germany
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. It was first played at
The Belfry
The Belfry is a golf resort and hotel in Wishaw, Warwickshire, close to Sutton Coldfield, England, located approximately 8 miles from the centre of Birmingham. It was acquired by KSL Capital Partners in August 2012.
The resort has three golf c ...
in 1984 and held annually in England until 1990 with the exception of 1986. The 1992 and 1993 tournaments were held near
Munich
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in
Bavaria
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and the last installment in 1996 was held at
Hanbury Manor
Hanbury Manor, centred on the multi-wing Hanbury Manor Hotel, is a converted late-Victorian country house and adjoining golf course in Thundridge, north of Ware, Hertfordshire, some north of Greater London. It is part of a leisure retreat and cou ...
near
London
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.
Winners
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References
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Ladies European Tour
Former Ladies European Tour events
Golf tournaments in England
Golf tournaments in Germany
Defunct sports competitions in England
Defunct sports competitions in Germany
Recurring sporting events established in 1984
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1996
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