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.

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 , 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.

Course layout

Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal Yards1994014193711704925423891563,1393344871603404204643434193863,3536,492Par344435543354534454443772 Source:

Previous lengths of the course for the Women's British Open (since 2001): 2006: , par 72 2003: , par 72

Round summaries First round Thursday, 30 July 2009 Place Player Score To par1 Sandra Gal69−3T2 Song-Hee Kim70−2 Angela StanfordT4 Yuko Mitsuka71−1 Hee-Young Park6 Maria Hjorth72ET7 Kyeong Eun Bae73+1 Christina Kim Vikki Laing Michelle Wie

Second round Friday, 31 July 2009 Place Player Score To parT1 Catriona Matthew74-67=141−3 Giulia Sergas74-67=1413 Yuko Mitsuka71-71=142−24 Song-Hee Kim70-73=143−1T5 Kyeong Eun Bae73-71=144E Christina Kim73-71=144 Yani Tseng74-70=144T8 Sophie Gustafson74-71=145+1 Marianne Skarpnord76-69=145T10 Hee-Young Park71-75=146+2 Jane Park74-72=146 Ai Miyazato75-71=146 Angela Stanford70-76=146

Third round Saturday, 1 August 2009

Place Player Score To par1 Catriona Matthew74-67-71=212−42 Christina Kim73-71-71=215−1T3 Ai Miyazato75-71-70=216E Jiyai Shin77-71-68=216T5 Song-Hee Kim70-73-74=217+1 Mika Miyazato76-72-69=217T7 Kyeong Eun Bae73-71-74=218+2 Paula Creamer74-74-70=218 Shinobu Moromizato74-73-71=218 Jane Park74-72-72=218

Final round Sunday, 2 August 2009 Place Player Score To par Money ($)1 Catriona Matthew74-67-71-73=285−3 335,0002 Karrie Webb77-71-72-68=288E210,000T3 Paula Creamer74-74-70-71=289+1109,500 Hee-Won Han77-73-69-70=289 Christina Kim73-71-71-74=289 Ai Miyazato75-71-70-73=2897 Kristy McPherson 74-74-72-70=290 +2 74,000T8 Na Yeon Choi80-71-70-70=291+361,000 Cristie Kerr76-71-75-69=291 Jiyai Shin77-71-68-75=291 Source:

Scorecard Final round Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718Par344435543453445444 Matthew −3 −3 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −1 −1 −1 −2 −3 −4 −4 −3 −3 Webb +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +1 E E E Creamer +3 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 E −1 −1 +1 Han +3 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +1 +1 +1 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 Kim −1 E E +1 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 E E +1 E +1 +1 +1 Miyazato +1 E +1 +1 +1 E −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 E −1 −1 +1 +1 McPherson +4 +4 +5 +5 +5 +4 +4 +4 +4 +3 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2 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 {|class="wikitable" span = 50 style="font-size:85%; |- |style="background: Red;" width=10| |Eagle |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: 2009 Ricoh Women's British Open results LPGA: 2009 Ricoh Women's British Open results