Best Female Golfer ESPY Award

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The Best Female Golfer ESPY Award has been presented annually in two different periods to the professional female golfer adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. It was originally presented between 1993 and 2004, but was, along with the parallel Best Male Golfer ESPY Award, subsumed in 2005 by the Best Golfer ESPY Award. In 2009, the awards were again bifurcated by sex.

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Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous. [1] The award wasn't awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

List of winners

YearGolferNation of citizenship
1993 Dottie Mochrie Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
1994 Betsy King Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
1995 Laura Davies Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
(Flag of England.svg  England)
1996 Annika Sörenstam Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
1997 Karrie Webb Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
1998 Annika Sörenstam (2)Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
1999 Annika Sörenstam (3)Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
2000 Juli Inkster Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
2001 Karrie Webb (2)Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
2002 Annika Sörenstam (4)Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
2003 Annika Sörenstam (5)Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
2004 Annika Sörenstam (6)Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
2009 Lorena Ochoa Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
2010 Lorena Ochoa (2)Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
2011 Cristie Kerr Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
2012 Cristie Kerr (2)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
2013 Stacy Lewis Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
2014 Michelle Wie Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
2015 Lydia Ko Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
2016 Lydia Ko (2)Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
2017 Ariya Jutanugarn Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand
2018 Park Sung-hyun Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
2019 Brooke Henderson Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
2020 Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Kim Sei-young Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
2022 Nelly Korda Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States

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Notes

  1. Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.

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