This Week the AIG Women’s Open Championship
Played at Royal Porthcawl Golf Course
6748 Yards Par 72
Porthcawl Wales
The Defending Champion is Lydia Ko
In the TH our Women’s Open Champion is JJ
The Women’s Open was first played in 1976 where amateur Jenny Lee Smith was champion. Jenny would go on to have a strong professional career with 10 wins on the LET. In 2023 she presented the trophy to champion Lilla Vu.
This is the last Major of the year . . . but don’t fret . . . there is still a lot of important golf left to play. We have the FedEx, the Ryder Cup, the CME Tour Championship and the Race to Dubai before we close out the year. The Open comes to Royal Porthcawl for the first time. As with the men, most of the field was at the Scottish Open getting a dose of links golf. Our Defending Champion was not in the field last week but will come to this event with good memories. Last year was a good one for Lydia Ko, just two weeks before winning the Open at St. Andrews, she won the gold medal at the Olympics. But with two wins in Europe in the past few weeks, along with a strong showing at the Evian . . . I suspect Lottie Woad will be on everyone’s dance card. After all, she was Low Amateur just last year
FUN FACT: In 2012, the first Open Champion Jenny Lee Smith discovered that she had a twin sister. Together they co-authored a book My Secret Sister about the experience.
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