Tournament information | |
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Location | Belgium |
Established | 1985 |
Course(s) | Naxhelet Golf Club |
Tour(s) | Ladies European Tour |
Format | 54-hole Stroke play |
Month played | May |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 275 Penny Grice-Whittaker |
To par | −17 as above |
Current champion | |
Patricia Isabel Schmidt |
The Belgian Ladies Open is a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour held in Belgium.
The tournament was played annually 1985–1995. [1] It was known as the Godiva Ladies European Masters 1988–1989 and the BMW European Masters 1990–1994. The tournament was slated to return to the LET schedule in 2020 but was postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]
Starting in 2014 Belgium has also hosted the Belgian LETAS Trophy on the LET's development tour.
Year | Venue | Winner | Country | Score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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Belgian Ladies Open | ||||||
2023 | Naxhelet Golf Club | Patricia Isabel Schmidt | Germany | 205 (−11) | 2 strokes | María Hernández Chiara Noja |
Mithra Belgian Ladies Open | ||||||
2022 | Naxhelet Golf Club | Linn Grant | Sweden | 201 (−15) | 1 stroke | Cara Gainer |
2021 | No tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||||
2020 | ||||||
1996–2019: No tournament | ||||||
Ladies European Masters | ||||||
1995 | Cleydael Golf & Country Club | Lora Fairclough | England | 206 (−10) | 2 strokes | Federica Dassù |
BMW European Masters | ||||||
1994 | Royal Bercuit Golf Club | Helen Wadsworth | Wales | 278 (−14) | 3 strokes | Tracy Hanson |
1993 | Helen Dobson | England | 283 (−9) | 1 stroke | Marie-Laure de Lorenzi Dale Reid | |
1992 | Kitrina Douglas | England | 279 (−13) | 1 stroke | Trish Johnson | |
1991 | Corinne Dibnah | Australia | 284 (−8) | 3 strokes | Florence Descampe Catrin Nilsmark | |
1990 | Karen Lunn | Australia | 285 (−3) | 4 strokes | Corinne Soulès | |
Godiva Ladies European Masters | ||||||
1989 | Royal Bercuit Golf Club | Kitrina Douglas | England | 287 (−5) | Playoff | Marie-Laure de Lorenzi |
1988 | Royal Antwerp Golf Club | Karen Lunn | Australia | 276 (−16) | 2 strokes | Marie-Laure de Lorenzi |
Belgian Ladies Open | ||||||
1987 | Royal Waterloo GC (Marache) | Marie-Laure de Lorenzi | France | 285 (−7) | 2 strokes | Trish Johnson Susan Moon |
1986 | Penny Grice-Whittaker | England | 275 (−17) | 9 strokes | Gillian Stewart | |
1986 | Laura Davies | England | 286 (−6) | 1 stroke | Maxine Burton |
Source: [3]
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