The Women's Victorian Open is an annual

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tournament held in Australia. It was founded in 1988 and played annually through 1992. After a 20-year hiatus it returned in 2012 as a tournament on the

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. This was the first time the men's

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and women's Victorian Open were held concurrently - making it the only professional golf tournament in the world where men and women played the same courses, at the same time, for equal prize money. In 2013, the men's and women's Victorian Opens moved to 13th Beach Golf Links in

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, southwest of

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, near the southwest shore of the When the tournament moved to 13th Beach Golf Links in 2013, the combined prize pool was A$300,000, with $150,000 on offer for each of the men's and women's fields. In six years
the total prize pool has increased ten-fold
with the 2019 men's and women's Victorian Open fields to be playing for a total purse of $3 million ($1.5 million each). Since 2017, the event became co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour and the ALPG Tour. Like its men's counterpart, it is a two-cut tournament. The field is reduced to 60 after the second round and 35 after the third round; those who fail to make the second cut earn prize money. In

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, the event was co-sanctioned by the

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, and will continue to be played alongside the men's

, now co-sanctioned by the

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. The double cut continues; 65 players will remain after the first cut, then 35 players after the Saturday cut.

Winners

;As an LPGA Tour event In 2017 Reid beat

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at the third hole of a sudden-death playoff and in 2018, Minjee Lee won her second Victorian Open title, after winning her first as an amateur in 2014.

References

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Winners

See also

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