The 1945 Women's Western Open was a golf competition held at Highland Golf & Country Club in Indianapolis, Indiana from June 18–23. It was the 16th edition of the Women's Western Open.
he field of 136 golfers played an 18-hole qualifying round to determine the 32 players advancing to match play. Babe Zaharias and Louise Suggs shared medalists honors with qualifying rounds of 75 (−1). Match play was over 18 holes for each round except the 36-hole final. After the first round of match play, two professional and fourteen amateur golfers remained in the field.
Babe Zaharias won the championship in match play competition by defeating Dorothy Germain in the final match, 4 and 2. It was a rematch of the 1944 final, also won by Zaharias.
Final 16 bracket
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