The 2007 Women's British Open was the 31st Women's British Open, held 2–5 August at the Old Course at St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. It was the seventh as a major championship on the LPGA Tour and the first-ever women's professional event at the Old Course.

Lorena Ochoa shot a bunker-free and bogey-free 67 (−6) in the opening round and led wire-to-wire to win the first of her two major titles, four strokes ahead of runners-up Maria Hjorth and Jee Young Lee.

Prior to Ochoa, the last to win a first major at the Old Course was Tony Lema, 43 years earlier in 1964. This was the first Women's British Open sponsored by Ricoh, the previous twenty were by Weetabix.

Course

HoleNameYardsPar HoleNameYardsPar1Burn3764 10Bobby Jones34042Dyke400411High (In)16033Cartgate (Out)370412Heathery (In)31444Ginger Beer406413Hole O'Cross (In)40745Hole O'Cross (Out)514514Long52356Heathery (Out)369415Cartgate (In)41447High (Out)353416Corner of the Dyke38148Short154317Road45359End347418Tom Morris3574Out3,28936In3,34937 Total6,63873 Source: The Road Hole, No. 17, was played as a par 5 for this championship, and was the easiest hole relative to par.

Round summaries

First round Thursday, 2 August 2007 Place Player Score To par1 Lorena Ochoa 67 −6T2 Louise Friberg 69 −4 Inbee ParkT4 Rebecca Hudson 70 −3 Ai MiyazatoT6 Joanne Mills 71 −2 Meena Lee Brittany Lincicome Wendy WardT10 Tullia Calzavara 72 −1 Karine Icher In-Kyung Kim Candie Kung Virginie Lagoutte-Clément Lee Jee-young Sarah Lee Min Na-on Catrin Nilsmark Annika Sörenstam Sherri Steinhauer

Second round Friday, 3 August 2007 Place Player Score To par1 Lorena Ochoa 67-73=140 −6T2 Catriona Matthew 73-68=141 −5 Wendy Ward 71-70=141T4 Yuri Fudoh 74-69=143 −3 Rebecca Hudson 70-73=143 Karine Icher 72-71=143 Annika Sörenstam 72-71=143 Sherri Steinhauer 72-71=1439 Ji Eun-hee 73-71=144 −2T10 Louise Friberg 69-76=145 −1 Sophie Gustafson 73-72=145 Virginie Lagoutte-Clément 72-73=145 Lee Jee-young 72-73=145

Amateurs: Mozo (+1), Reid (+2), Choi (+4), Bell (+5), Edwards (+5), Nordqvist (+5), Smith (+5), Watson (+5), Ciganda (+7), McVeigh (+8)

Third round Saturday, 4 August 2007

Place Player Score To par1 Lorena Ochoa 67-73-73=213 −62 Linda Wessberg 74-73-72=219 ET3 Maria Hjorth 75-73-72=220 +1 Karine Icher 72-71-77=220 Lee Jee-young 72-73-75=220 Annika Sörenstam 72-71-77=220T7 Ji Eun-hee 73-71-77=221 +2 Catriona Matthew 73-68-80=221 Se-ri Pak 73-73-75=221 Reilley Rankin 73-74-74=221 Wendy Ward 71-70-80=221

Final round Sunday, 5 August 2007 Place Player Score To par Money ($)1 Lorena Ochoa 67-73-73-74=287 −5 320,512T2 Maria Hjorth 75-73-72-71=291 −1 170,272 Lee Jee-young 72-73-75-71=2914 Reilley Rankin 73-74-74-71=292 E 110,176T5 Ji Eun-hee 73-71-77-72=293 +1 84,135 Se-ri Pak 73-73-75-72=293T7 Paula Creamer 73-75-74-72=294 +2 61,098 Catriona Matthew 73-68-80-73=294 Miki Saiki 76-70-81-67=294 Linda Wessberg 74-73-72-75=294

Amateurs: Reid (+4), Smith (+9), Choi (+11), Bell (+12), Watson (+12), Mozo (+13), Nordqvist (+14), Edwards (+20)

Source:

Scorecard Final round Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718Par 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 5 4 Ochoa −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −8 −8 −7 −8 −8 −7 −7 −7 −7 −6 −6 −5 −5 Hjorth +1 E E +1 E −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 E −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 Lee +1 +1 +1 E −1 −1 −1 −1 −2 −2 −2 −1 E −1 −2 −1 −1 −1 Rankin +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 E E −1 −1 −1 E E E −1 −1 E E Ji +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 Pak +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +2 +1 +1 +1 E +1 +1 +1 Wessberg E E −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −2 −3 −2 −2 −2 E +1 +2 +2 +2 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par {|class="wikitable" span = 50 style="font-size:85%; |- |style="background: Pink;" width=10| |Birdie |style="background: PaleGreen;" width=10| |Bogey |style="background: Green;" width=10| |Double bogey

References

External links Ladies European Tour: 2007 Ricoh Women's British Open results LPGA: 2007 Ricoh Women's British Open results