The Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship is the national women's amateur

stroke play Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes. In stroke play, the winner is the player who has taken the fewest strokes over the ...

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 ...

championship in

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

(although entry is open to overseas golfers). It has been played annually at

Royal Troon Royal Troon Golf Club is a links golf course in Scotland, located in Troon, South Ayrshire, southwest of Glasgow. Founding and early years The club, which now has a total of 45 holes, was founded in 1878, initially with five holes. It lies adj ...

since 1973 and is organised by the Scottish Golf. The format is 54-hole stroke play contested over three days. It is played at

with the first two rounds played on the Portland course and the final round on the Old course. Originally it was played over two days, with 36 holes on the first day. The tournament is named after

Helen Holm Helen Warren Holm (née Gray) (14 March 1907 – 14 December 1971) was a Scottish amateur golfer. She was Scottish champion five times and she won the British Ladies Amateur twice. The Helen Holm Trophy is named in her memory. Life Holm was born ...

, a Scottish amateur golfer who was Scottish champion five times.

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Scottish Golf UnionList of winners
Golf tournaments in Scotland Amateur golf tournaments in the United Kingdom Women's golf in the United Kingdom Annual sporting events in the United Kingdom 1973 establishments in Scotland Recurring sporting events established in 1973

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