The Women's Victorian Open is an annual golf tournament held in Australia. It was founded in 1988 and played annually through 1992. After a 20-year hiatus it returned in 2012 as a tournament on the WPGA Tour of Australasia.
This was the first time the men's Victorian Open and women's Victorian Open were held concurrently - making it the only professional golf tournament in the world where men and women played the same courses, at the same time, for equal prize money.
In 2013, the men's and women's Victorian Opens moved to 13th Beach Golf Links in Barwon Heads, southwest of Melbourne, near the southwest shore of the
When the tournament moved to 13th Beach Golf Links in 2013, the combined prize pool was A$300,000, with $150,000 on offer for each of the men's and women's fields.
In six years, the total prize pool has increased ten-fold, with the 2019 men's and women's Victorian Open fields to be playing for a total purse of $3 million ($1.5 million each).
In 2017 and 2018, the event were co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour and the ALPG Tour. Like its men's counterpart, it is a two-cut tournament. The field is reduced to 60 after the second round and 35 after the third round; those who fail to make the second cut earn prize money.
The event was co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour in 2019 and 2020. It is played alongside the men's Victorian Open. The double cut continues; 65 players will remain after the first cut, then 35 players after the Saturday cut.
Winners Year Tour(s) Winner Country Score To par Venue Purse (A$) RefVic Open 2026 WPGA Lydia Hall 289 E 13th Beach Golf Links 200,000 2025 WPGA Su Oh 289 E 13th Beach Golf Links 200,000 2024 WPGA Ashley Lau 277 −12 13th Beach Golf Links 420,000 2023 WPGA Jiyai Shin 275 −14 13th Beach Golf Links 420,000 2022 WPGA Hannah Green 276 −13 13th Beach Golf Links 410,000 2021 Tournament cancelled ISPS Handa Vic Open 2020 ALPGLPGA Park Hee-young 281PO −8 13th Beach Golf Links US$1,100,000 2019 ALPGLPGA Céline Boutier 281 −8 13th Beach Golf Links US$1,100,000Oates Vic Open 2018 ALPGLET Minjee Lee (2) 279 −13 13th Beach Golf Links 650,000 2017 ALPGLET Melissa Reid 276PO −16 13th Beach Golf Links 650,000 2016 ALPG Georgia Hall 281 −11 13th Beach Golf Links 300,000 2015 ALPG Marianne Skarpnord 279 −13 13th Beach Golf Links 250,000 2014 ALPG Minjee Lee (a) 279 −17 13th Beach Golf Links 150,000 Women's Victorian Open 2013 ALPG Stacey Keating 278 −18 13th Beach Golf Links 150,000 2012 ALPG Joanna Klatten 212 −7 Woodlands/Spring Valley 1993–2011: No tournamentHeart Health Victorian Women's Open 1992 ALPG Wendy Doolan 211 −5 Yarra Yarra 1991 ALPG Jennifer Wyatt 222 E Woodlands Women's Victorian Open 1990 ALPG Dale Reid 212 −10 Commonwealth 1989 ALPG Susan Tonkin 227 +5 Commonwealth 1988 ALPG Helen Hopkins 219 −3 Commonwealth
See also Victorian Open – (concurrent men's tournament)
References
External links
Coverage on the LPGA Tour's official site Coverage on the ALPG Tour's official site 13th Beach Golf Links – official site