2010 Women's British Open

2010 Women's British Open

Tournament information
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)
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)

Royal Birkdale Golf Club

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Location in England

The 2010 Women's British Open was held 29 July to 1 August at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, 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), 715 yards (654 m) shorter than the par-70 set-up for The Open Championship in 2008.

The champion was Yani Tseng of Taiwan at 277 (−11), one stroke ahead of runner-up Katherine Hull of Australia. With the victory, the 21-year-old Tseng became the youngest-ever winner of three major championships.

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Jiyai Shin	South Korea	2008	71	71	72	73	287	−1	T14
Jeong Jang	South Korea	2005	74	73	74	69	290	+2	T21
Karrie Webb	Australia	2002	70	71	72	72	293	+5	T43
Sherri Steinhauer	United States	2006	76	70	73	75	294	+6	T50

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Karen Stupples	England	2004	77	75	152	+8
Catriona Matthew	Scotland	2009	75	81	156	+12

Course

Main article: Royal Birkdale Golf Club

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
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:

Previous length of the course for the Women's British Open (since 2001):

• 2005: 6,463 yards (5,910 m), par 72

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 29 July 2010

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Katherine Hull	Australia	68	−4
	Yani Tseng	Taiwan
T3	Anne-Lise Caudal	France	69	−3
	Brittany Lincicome	United States
	Amy Yang	South Korea
	Sun Young Yoo	South Korea
T7	In-Kyung Kim	South Korea	70	−2
	Michelle Wie	United States
T9	Stacy Bregman	South Africa	71	−1
	Juli Inkster	United States
	Brittany Lang	United States
	Stacy Lewis	United States
	Gwladys Nocera	France
	Stacy Prammanasudh	United States
	Jiyai Shin	South Korea

Second round

Friday, 30 July 2010

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Yani Tseng	Taiwan	68-68=136	−8
T2	Cristie Kerr	United States	73-67=140	−4
	Brittany Lincicome	United States	69-71=140
	Amy Yang	South Korea	69-71=140
T5	Juli Inkster	United States	71-70=141	−3
	Suzann Pettersen	Norway	73-68=141
	Sun Young Yoo	South Korea	69-72=141
T8	Anne-Lise Caudal	France	69-73=142	−2
	Katherine Hull	Australia	68-74=142
	M. J. Hur	South Korea	74-68=142
	Christina Kim	United States	74-68=142
	In-Kyung Kim	South Korea	70-72=142
	Hee-kyung Seo	South Korea	73-69=142
	Jiyai Shin	South Korea	71-71=142
	Momoko Ueda	Japan	72-70=142

Third round

Saturday, 31 July 2010

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Yani Tseng	Taiwan	68-68-68=204	−12
2	Katherine Hull	Australia	68-74-66=208	−8
3	In-Kyung Kim	South Korea	70-72-68=210	−6
4	Brittany Lincicome	United States	69-71-71=211	−5
T5	Cristie Kerr	United States	73-67-72=212	−4
	Christina Kim	United States	74-68-70=212
	Suzann Pettersen	Norway	73-68-71=212
	Hee-kyung Seo	South Korea	73-69-70=212
	Momoko Ueda	Japan	72-70-70=212
T10	Na Yeon Choi	South Korea	74-70-69=213	−3
	Morgan Pressel	United States	77-71-65=213

Final round

Sunday, 1 August 2010

Place	Player	Nation	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Yani Tseng	Taiwan	68-68-68-73=277	−11	408,714
2	Katherine Hull	Australia	68-74-66-70=278	−10	256,209
T3	Na Yeon Choi	South Korea	74-70-69-68=281	−7	159,825
	In-Kyung Kim	South Korea	70-72-68-71=281
T5	Cristie Kerr	United States	73-67-72-70=282	−6	101,670
	Hee-kyung Seo	South Korea	73-69-70-70=282
	Amy Yang	South Korea	69-71-74-68=282
8	Morgan Pressel	United States	77-71-65-71=284	−4	81,753
T9	Christina Kim	United States	74-68-70-74=286	−2	61,978
	Brittany Lincicome	United States	69-71-71-75=286
	Ai Miyazato	Japan	76-70-73-67=286
	Inbee Park	South Korea	72-71-77-66=286
	Momoko Ueda	Japan	72-70-70-74=286

Source:

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	4	3	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	5	5
Tseng	−12	−12	−11	−12	−12	−13	−13	−12	−12	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11
Hull	−8	−9	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

External links

• Ladies European Tour: 2010 Ricoh Women's British Open results
• LPGA: 2010 Ricoh Women's British Open results