2009 Women's British Open

2009 Women's British Open
Tournament information
Dates30 July – 2 August 2009
LocationLancashire, England
Course(s)Royal Lytham & St Annes
Golf Club
Organized byLadies' Golf Union
Tour(s)LPGA Tour
Ladies European Tour
Statistics
Par72
Length6,492 yards (5,936 m)[1]
Field144 players, 71 after cut
Cut153 (+9)
Prize fund$2,200,000
€1,543,520
Winner's share$335,000
€235,036
Champion
Scotland Catriona Matthew
285 (−3)
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The 2009 Women's British Open was held 30 July – 2 August at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lancashire, England. It was the 33rd Women's British Open and the ninth as a major championship on the LPGA Tour. Catriona Matthew won her only major, three strokes ahead of runner-up Karrie Webb.[2][3]

It was the fourth Women's British Open at Royal Lytham and the third as an LPGA major, most recently in 2006. The course had also hosted ten Open Championships, most recently in 2001. The par-72 course was set by the Ladies Golf Union at 6,492 yards (5,936 m),[1] 413 yards (378 m) shorter than the par-71 set-up for The Open Championship in 2001.

Matthew became the first Scot to win the title, just eleven weeks after giving birth to her second child in mid-May.[2][3]

Course layout

Main article: Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Yards 199 401 419 371 170 492 542 389 156 3,139 334 487 160 340 420 464 343 419 386 3,353 6,492
Par 3 4 4 4 3 5 5 4 3 35 4 5 3 4 4 5 4 4 4 37 72

Source:[1]

Previous lengths of the course for the Women's British Open (since 2001):

  • 2006: 6,480 yards (5,925 m), par 72
  • 2003: 6,308 yards (5,768 m), par 72

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 30 July 2009

Place Player Score To par
1 Germany Sandra Gal 69 −3
T2 South Korea Song-Hee Kim 70 −2
United States Angela Stanford
T4 Japan Yuko Mitsuka 71 −1
South Korea Hee-Young Park
6 Sweden Maria Hjorth 72 E
T7 South Korea Kyeong Eun Bae 73 +1
United States Christina Kim
Scotland Vikki Laing
United States Michelle Wie

Second round

Friday, 31 July 2009

Place Player Score To par
T1 Scotland Catriona Matthew 74-67=141 −3
Italy Giulia Sergas 74-67=141
3 Japan Yuko Mitsuka 71-71=142 −2
4 South Korea Song-Hee Kim 70-73=143 −1
T5 South Korea Kyeong Eun Bae 73-71=144 E
United States Christina Kim 73-71=144
Taiwan Yani Tseng 74-70=144
T8 Sweden Sophie Gustafson 74-71=145 +1
Norway Marianne Skarpnord 76-69=145
T10 South Korea Hee-Young Park 71-75=146 +2
United States Jane Park 74-72=146
Japan Ai Miyazato 75-71=146
United States Angela Stanford 70-76=146

Third round

Saturday, 1 August 2009

Place Player Score To par
1 Scotland Catriona Matthew 74-67-71=212 −4
2 United States Christina Kim 73-71-71=215 −1
T3 Japan Ai Miyazato 75-71-70=216 E
South Korea Jiyai Shin 77-71-68=216
T5 South Korea Song-Hee Kim 70-73-74=217 +1
Japan Mika Miyazato 76-72-69=217
T7 South Korea Kyeong Eun Bae 73-71-74=218 +2
United States Paula Creamer 74-74-70=218
Japan Shinobu Moromizato 74-73-71=218
United States Jane Park 74-72-72=218

Final round

Sunday, 2 August 2009

Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1 Scotland Catriona Matthew 74-67-71-73=285 −3 335,000
2 Australia Karrie Webb 77-71-72-68=288 E 210,000
T3 United States Paula Creamer 74-74-70-71=289 +1 109,500
South Korea Hee-Won Han 77-73-69-70=289
United States Christina Kim 73-71-71-74=289
Japan Ai Miyazato 75-71-70-73=289
7 United States Kristy McPherson 74-74-72-70=290 +2 74,000
T8 South Korea Na Yeon Choi 80-71-70-70=291 +3 61,000
United States Cristie Kerr 76-71-75-69=291
South Korea Jiyai Shin 77-71-68-75=291

Source:[4]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par 3 4 4 4 3 5 5 4 3 4 5 3 4 4 5 4 4 4
Scotland Matthew −3 −3 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −1 −1 −1 −2 −3 −4 −4 −3 −3
Australia Webb +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +1 E E E
United States Creamer +3 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 E −1 −1 +1
South Korea Han +3 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +1 +1 +1 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1
United States Kim −1 E E +1 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 E E +1 E +1 +1 +1
Japan Miyazato +1 E +1 +1 +1 E −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 E −1 −1 +1 +1
United States McPherson +4 +4 +5 +5 +5 +4 +4 +4 +4 +3 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2
South Korea Shin E E E E +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +3

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey

References

  1. ^ a b c "Course Statistics: 2009 Ricoh Women's British Open". Ladies Golf Union. 2 August 2009. Retrieved 18 July 2013.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ a b Reason, Mark (2 August 2009). "Catriona Matthew wins Women's British Open". The Telegraph. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  3. ^ a b Murray, Ewan (2 August 2009). "Catriona Matthew takes British Open to be first Scot to win a women's major". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  4. ^ "RICOH Women's British Open". Golf Channel. Retrieved 4 September 2018.

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