Tournament information | |
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Dates | 29 July – 1 August 2010 |
Location | Southport, England |
Course(s) | Royal Birkdale Golf Club |
Organized by | Ladies' Golf Union |
Tour(s) | LPGA Tour Ladies European Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Length | 6,458 yards (5,905 m)[1] |
Field | 144 players, 75 after cut |
Cut | 149 (+5) |
Prize fund | $2,500,000 €1,917,783 |
Winner's share | $408,714 €313,530 |
Champion | |
Yani Tseng | |
277 (−11) | |
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The 2010 Women's British Open was held 29 July to 1 August at Royal Birkdale Golf ClubinSouthport, England. It was the 34th edition of the Women's British Open, and the tenth as a major championship on the LPGA Tour.
This was the fifth time the Women's British Open had been held at Royal Birkdale and the second as an LPGA major, previously in 2005. The course had also hosted nine Open Championships, most recently in 2008. The par-72 course was set by the Ladies Golf Union at 6,458 yards (5,905 m),[1] 715 yards (654 m) shorter than the par-70 set-up for The Open Championshipin2008.
The champion was Yani TsengofTaiwan at 277 (−11), one stroke ahead of runner-up Katherine HullofAustralia. With the victory, the 21-year-old Tseng became the youngest-ever winner of three major championships.[2]
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
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Yards | 430 | 410 | 373 | 175 | 338 | 478 | 145 | 413 | 397 | 3,159 | 360 | 352 | 149 | 430 | 163 | 499 | 358 | 516 | 472 | 3,299 | 6,458 |
Par | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 37 | 72 |
Source:[1]
Previous length of the course for the Women's British Open (since 2001):
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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T1 | Katherine Hull | 68 | −4 |
Yani Tseng | |||
T3 | Anne-Lise Caudal | 69 | −3 |
Brittany Lincicome | |||
Amy Yang | |||
Sun Young Yoo | |||
T7 | In-Kyung Kim | 70 | −2 |
Michelle Wie | |||
T9 | Stacy Bregman | 71 | −1 |
Juli Inkster | |||
Brittany Lang | |||
Stacy Lewis | |||
Gwladys Nocera | |||
Stacy Prammanasudh | |||
Jiyai Shin |
Friday, 30 July 2010
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | Yani Tseng | 68-68=136 | −8 |
T2 | Cristie Kerr | 73-67=140 | −4 |
Brittany Lincicome | 69-71=140 | ||
Amy Yang | 69-71=140 | ||
T5 | Juli Inkster | 71-70=141 | −3 |
Suzann Pettersen | 73-68=141 | ||
Sun Young Yoo | 69-72=141 | ||
T8 | Anne-Lise Caudal | 69-73=142 | −2 |
Katherine Hull | 68-74=142 | ||
M. J. Hur | 74-68=142 | ||
Christina Kim | 74-68=142 | ||
In-Kyung Kim | 70-72=142 | ||
Hee-kyung Seo | 73-69=142 | ||
Jiyai Shin | 71-71=142 | ||
Momoko Ueda | 72-70=142 |
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | Yani Tseng | 68-68-68=204 | −12 |
2 | Katherine Hull | 68-74-66=208 | −8 |
3 | In-Kyung Kim | 70-72-68=210 | −6 |
4 | Brittany Lincicome | 69-71-71=211 | −5 |
T5 | Cristie Kerr | 73-67-72=212 | −4 |
Christina Kim | 74-68-70=212 | ||
Suzann Pettersen | 73-68-71=212 | ||
Hee-kyung Seo | 73-69-70=212 | ||
Momoko Ueda | 72-70-70=212 | ||
T10 | Na Yeon Choi | 74-70-69=213 | −3 |
Morgan Pressel | 77-71-65=213 |
Sunday, 1 August 2010
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
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1 | Yani Tseng | 68-68-68-73=277 | −11 | 408,714 |
2 | Katherine Hull | 68-74-66-70=278 | −10 | 256,209 |
T3 | Na Yeon Choi | 74-70-69-68=281 | −7 | 159,825 |
In-Kyung Kim | 70-72-68-71=281 | |||
T5 | Cristie Kerr | 73-67-72-70=282 | −6 | 101,670 |
Hee-kyung Seo | 73-69-70-70=282 | |||
Amy Yang | 69-71-74-68=282 | |||
8 | Morgan Pressel | 77-71-65-71=284 | −4 | 81,753 |
T9 | Christina Kim | 74-68-70-74=286 | −2 | 61,978 |
Brittany Lincicome | 69-71-71-75=286 | |||
Ai Miyazato | 76-70-73-67=286 | |||
Inbee Park | 72-71-77-66=286 | |||
Momoko Ueda | 72-70-70-74=286 |
Source:[3]
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
The Women's Open as an LPGA major
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