The AIG Women's Open is the LPGA Tour's fifth major championship on the schedule, with the event having been upgraded in 2001 to major status and played in a rotation around the UK.
The event, which has been around since 1976, became a major in 2001 to better coincide the schedule with the recognized majors on the PGA Tour calendar.
The AIG Women's Open has seen an increase in prestige in recent years, with the purse increased to $9 million in 2023. Also the rotation of courses has come to more look like The Open.
Just two players, Jiyai Shin and Yani Tseng, have won this event multiple times since it became a major.
AIG Women's Open format
The AIG Women's Open is played over four days, and there is a cut for the qualifying field.
The field, which is 144 players, is reduced to the top 70 players and ties for the final two rounds of the event. At the end of the 72-hole event, the lowest score wins. In the event of a 72-hole tie, a sudden-death playoff is conducted to determine a winner.
AIG Women's Open host courses
Woburn's Duke's Course has hosted the most times in event history, hosting nine times, while the Marquess Course has hosted another pair of times. Royal Birkdale has hosted six times.
AIG Women's Open past sponsors
AIG Women's Open has had a singular name over the years:
- 1976-1978, 1986, 1994-2010: Women's British Open>
- 1979-1982: Pretty Polly Women's British Open
- 1984: Hitachi Women's British Open
- 1985: Burberry Women's British Open
- 1987-1993: Weetabix Women's British Open
- 2011-2018: Ricoh Women's British Open
- 2019: AIG Women's British Open
- 2021–present: AIG Women's Open
AIG Women's Open history & results
| YEAR | WINNER | TOT | TO PAR | BY | MONEY | VENUE |
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| 2023 | Lilia Vu | 274 | −14 | 6 | $1,350,000 | Walton Heath |
| 2022 | Ashleigh Buhai | 274 | −10 | PO | $1,095,000 | Muirfield |
| 2021 | Anna Nordqvist | 276 | −12 | 1 | $870,000 | Carnoustie, Championship |
| 2020 | Sophia Popov | 277 | −7 | 2 | $675,000 | Royal Troon, Old Course |
| 2019 | Hinako Shibuno | 270 | −18 | 1 | $675,000 | Woburn, Marquess Course |
| 2018 | Georgia Hall | 271 | −17 | 2 | $490,000 | Royal Lytham & St Annes |
| 2017 | In-Kyung Kim | 270 | −18 | 2 | $504,821 | Kingsbarns |
| 2016 | Ariya Jutanugarn | 272 | −16 | 3 | $412,047 | Woburn, Marquess Course |
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| 2015 | Inbee Park | 276 | −12 | 3 | $464,817 | Turnberry |
| 2014 | Mo Martin | 287 | −1 | 1 | $474,575 | Royal Birkdale |
| 2013 | Stacy Lewis | 280 | −8 | 2 | $402,583 | St Andrews |
| 2012 | Jiyai Shin | 279 | −9 | 9 | $428,650 | Royal Liverpool |
| 2011 | Yani Tseng | 272 | −16 | 4 | $392,133 | Carnoustie |
| 2010 | Yani Tseng | 277 | −11 | 1 | $408,714 | Royal Birkdale |
| 2009 | Catriona Matthew | 285 | −3 | 3 | $335,000 | Royal Lytham & St Annes |
| 2008 | Jiyai Shin | 270 | −18 | 3 | $314,464 | Sunningdale |
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| 2007 | Lorena Ochoa | 287 | −5 | 4 | $320,512 | St Andrews |
| 2006 | Sherri Steinhauer | 281 | −7 | 3 | $305,440 | Royal Lytham & St Annes |
| 2005 | Jeong Jang | 272 | −16 | 4 | $280,208 | Royal Birkdale |
| 2004 | Karen Stupples | 269 | −19 | 5 | $290,880 | Sunningdale |
| 2003 | Annika Sörenstam | 278 | −10 | 1 | $254,880 | Royal Lytham & St Annes |
| 2002 | Karrie Webb | 273 | −15 | 2 | $236,383 | Turnberry |
| 2001 | Se Ri Pak | 277 | −11 | 2 | $221,650 | Sunningdale |
| 2000 | Sophie Gustafson | 282 | −6 | 2 | $178,000 | Royal Birkdale |
| 1999 | Sherri Steinhauer | 283 | −5 | 1 | $160,000 | Woburn, Duke's Course |
| 1998 | Sherri Steinhauer | 292 | 4 | 1 | $162,000 | Royal Lytham & St Annes |
| 1997 | Karrie Webb | 269 | −19 | 8 | $129,938 | Sunningdale |
| 1996 | Emilee Klein | 277 | −11 | 7 | $124,000 | Woburn, Duke's Course |
| 1995 | Karrie Webb | 278 | −10 | 6 | $92,400 | Woburn, Duke's Course |
| 1994 | Liselotte Neumann | 280 | −8 | 3 | $80,325 | Woburn, Duke's Course |
| 1993 | Karen Lunn | 275 | N/A | 8 | £50,000 | Woburn, Duke's Course |
| 1992 | Patty Sheehan | 207[b] | N/A | 3 | £50,000 | Woburn, Duke's Course |
| 1991 | Penny Grice-Whittaker | 284 | N/A | 3 | £25,000 | Woburn, Duke's Course |
| 1990 | Helen Alfredsson | 288 | N/A | PO | £20,000 | Woburn, Duke's Course |
| 1989 | Jane Geddes | 274 | N/A | 2 | £18,000 | Ferndown |
| 1988 | Corinne Dibnah | 295 | N/A | PO | £15,000 | Lindrick |
| 1987 | Alison Nicholas | 296 | N/A | 1 | £15,000 | St Mellion |
| 1986 | Laura Davies | 283 | N/A | 4 | £9,000 | Royal Birkdale |
| 1985 | Betsy King | 300 | N/A | 2 | £9,000 | Moor Park |
| 1984 | Ayako Okamoto | 289 | N/A | 11 | £24,000 | Woburn, Duke's Course |
| 1983 | Not Played | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 1982 | Marta Figueras-Dotti (a) | 296 | N/A | 1 | £6,000 | Royal Birkdale |
| 1981 | Debbie Massey | 295 | N/A | 4 | £5,600 | Northumberland |
| 1980 | Debbie Massey | 294 | N/A | 1 | £4,500 | Wentworth |
| 1979 | Alison Sheard | 301 | N/A | 3 | £3,000 | Southport & Ainsdale |
| 1978 | Janet Melville (a) | 310 | N/A | 2 | £1,000 | Foxhills |
| 1977 | Vivien Saunders | 306 | N/A | PO | £210 | Lindrick Golf Club |
| 1976 | Jenny Lee Smith (a) | 299 | N/A | 2 | £210 | Fulford |
