The Singapore Women's 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 held in
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
. It was first played in 1987 as the Singapore Ladies Open, and is from 2022 part of the
Ladies Asian Tour and
LPGA of Korea Tour
The LPGA of Korea Tour is a South Korean professional golf tour for women. LPGA stands for Ladies Professional Golf Association. LPGA of Korea runs this tour, not the American LPGA. It is one of the world's five leading women's golf tours.
Based o ...
.
History
The Singapore Ladies Open was part of the
Ladies Asian Golf Circuit between 1987 and 1996.
In 2020, a Singapore Ladies Open sponsored by
Hana Financial Group
Hana Financial Group Inc. () is a financial holding company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
History
Hana Financial Group was established as Hana Bank's transition to a holding company. In 2005, Hana Bank was delisted and incorporated into ...
was slated to return but was postponed due to the pandemic, and the inaugural
LPGA of Korea Tour
The LPGA of Korea Tour is a South Korean professional golf tour for women. LPGA stands for Ladies Professional Golf Association. LPGA of Korea runs this tour, not the American LPGA. It is one of the world's five leading women's golf tours.
Based o ...
co-sanctioned event was held in 2022. With a prize purse of S$1.1 million, it was the second most lucrative women's golf tournament in the country after the S$2.4 million
HSBC Women's World Championship
The HSBC Women's World Championship is a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour first held in 2008. It was played on the Garden Course of the Tanah Merah Country Club in eastern Singapore, adjacent to Singapore Changi Airport fro ...
.
Winners
;Ladies Asian Tour event
;Ladies Asian Golf Circuit event
Source:
Notes
See also
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National open golf championship
An open golf tournament usually refers to a golf tournament in which all golfers are eligible to play regardless of their professional or amateur status. Often there will be certain restrictions, commonly based on ability. Some amateur-only tourna ...
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Singapore Open
References
External links
*{{Official website, https://swo22.sga.org.sg/
Ladies Asian Golf Tour events
LPGA of Korea Tour events
Golf tournaments in Singapore