The Best Female Golfer ESPY Award has been presented annually in two different periods to the professional female golfer adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. It was originally presented between 1993 and 2004, but was, along with the parallel Best Male Golfer ESPY Award, subsumed in 2005 by the Best Golfer ESPY Award. In 2009, the awards were again bifurcated by sex.
Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel was comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.
Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements from the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June or July and they reflect performance from the previous.Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award was presented in 2002 and it is given in consideration of performance between February 2001 and June 2002. The award wasn't awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic that year.
List of winners YearGolferNation of citizenship1993Dottie Mochrie1994Betsy King1995Laura Davies()1996Annika Sörenstam1997Karrie Webb1998Annika Sörenstam (2)1999Annika Sörenstam (3)2000Juli Inkster2001Karrie Webb (2)2002Annika Sörenstam (4)2003Annika Sörenstam (5)2004Annika Sörenstam (6)2009Lorena Ochoa2010Lorena Ochoa (2)2011Cristie Kerr2012Cristie Kerr (2)2013Stacy Lewis2014Michelle Wie2015Lydia Ko2016Lydia Ko (2)2017Ariya Jutanugarn2018Park Sung-hyun2019Brooke Henderson2020Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic2021Kim Sei-young2022Nelly Korda
See also Best Male Golfer ESPY Award List of golf awards List of sports awards honoring women List of LPGA Tour leading money winners by year Rolex Player of the Year Award Vare Trophy
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