2009 Women's British Open

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox individual golf tournament | name = 2009 Women's British Open | image = 2009 Women's British Open - Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Course (59).jpg | caption = 10th hole tee box at the Women's Open | location = [[Lancashire, England]] | course = [[Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club|Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club]] | dates = 30 July – 2 August 2009 | org = [[Ladies' Golf Union]] | tour = [[LPGA Tour]] [[Ladies European Tour]] | par = 72 | yardage = {{convert|6492|yd}}<ref name=lguwbo09>{{cite web |url=http://info.lgu.org/tic/tmcrsts.cgi?tourn=WB09~cardlink=Y~~season=2009~style=00~groupties=Y~pr=Y~textout=N~bordersize=1~fontsize=*~winfocus=Y~ |publisher=Ladies Golf Union |title=Course Statistics: 2009 Ricoh Women's British Open |date=2 August 2009 |accessdate=18 July 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> | field = 144 players, 71 after cut | cut = 153 (+9) | purse = [[United States dollar|$]]2,200,000 [[Euro|€]]1,543,520 | winners_share = $335,000 €235,036 | champion = {{flagicon|SCO}} [[Catriona Matthew]] | score = 285 (−3) | previous = [[2008 Women's British Open|2008]] | next = [[2010 Women's British Open|2010]] }} {{Location map |UK England |relief = 1 |label = Lytham & St Annes |lat = 53.7495 |long = -3.0180 |caption = Location in [[England]] |float = |background= |width = 240 }} The '''2009 Women's British Open''' was held 30 July – 2 August at [[Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club]] in [[Lancashire, England]]. It was the 33rd [[Women's British Open]] and the ninth as a [[Women's major golf championships|major championship]] on the [[LPGA Tour]]. [[Catriona Matthew]] won her only major, three strokes ahead of runner-up [[Karrie Webb]].<ref name=cmwwbo>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/womensgolf/5961877/Catriona-Matthew-wins-Womens-British-Open.html |newspaper=The Telegraph |last=Reason |first=Mark |title=Catriona Matthew wins Women's British Open |date=2 August 2009 |accessdate=18 July 2013}}</ref><ref name=cmtbofsc>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/aug/02/catriona-matthew-womens-open-championship |newspaper=The Guardian |last=Murray |first=Ewan |title=Catriona Matthew takes British Open to be first Scot to win a women's major |date=2 August 2009 |accessdate=18 July 2013}}</ref>

It was the fourth Women's British Open at Royal Lytham and the third as an LPGA major, most recently in [[2006 Women's British Open|2006]]. The course had also hosted ten [[The Open Championship|Open Championships]], most recently in [[2001 Open Championship|2001]]. The par-72 course was set by the [[Ladies Golf Union]] at {{convert|6492|yd}},<ref name=lguwbo09/> {{convert|413|yd}} shorter than the par-71 set-up for [[The Open Championship]] in [[2001 Open Championship|2001]].

Matthew became the first [[Scotland|Scot]] to win the title, just eleven weeks after giving birth to her second child in mid-May.<ref name=cmwwbo/><ref name=cmtbofsc/>

==Course layout== {{Main|Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club}} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" !align="left"|Hole!!1!!2!!3!!4!!5!!6!!7!!8!!9!!Out!!10!!11!!12!!13!!14!!15!!16!!17!!18!!In!!Total |- | align="center"|Yards||199||401||419||371||170||492||542||389||156||'''3,139'''||334||487||160||340||420||464||343||419||386||'''3,353'''||'''6,492''' |- | align="center"|Par||3||4||4||4||3||5||5||4||3||'''35'''||4||5||3||4||4||5||4||4||4||'''37'''||'''72''' |} Source:<ref name=lguwbo09/>

Previous lengths of the course for the Women's British Open (since 2001): * [[2006 Women's British Open|2006]]: {{convert|6480|yd|0}}, par 72 * [[2003 Women's British Open|2003]]: {{convert|6308|yd}}, par 72

== Round summaries == === First round=== ''Thursday, 30 July 2009'' {| class="wikitable" ! Place !! Player !! Score !! To par |- | align=center|1|| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Sandra Gal]]||align=center|69||align=center|−3 |- | rowspan="2" align=center|T2|| {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Song-Hee Kim]]||rowspan="2" align=center|70||rowspan="2" align=center|−2 |- | {{flagicon|USA}} [[Angela Stanford]] |- | rowspan="2" align=center|T4|| {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Yuko Mitsuka]]||rowspan="2" align=center|71||rowspan="2" align=center|−1 |- | {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Park Hee-young|Hee-Young Park]] |- | align=center|6|| {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Maria Hjorth]]||align=center|72||align=center|E |- | rowspan="4" align=center|T7|| {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Kyeong Eun Bae]]||rowspan="4" align=center|73||rowspan="4" align=center|+1 |- | {{flagicon|USA}} [[Christina Kim]] |- | {{flagicon|SCO}} [[Vikki Laing]] |- | {{flagicon|USA}} [[Michelle Wie]] |}

=== Second round=== ''Friday, 31 July 2009'' {| class="wikitable" ! Place !! Player !! Score !! To par |- | rowspan=2 align=center|T1|| {{flagicon|SCO}} [[Catriona Matthew]]||align=center|74-67=141||rowspan=2 align=center|−3 |- | {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Giulia Sergas]]||align=center|74-67=141 |- | align=center|3|| {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Yuko Mitsuka]]||align=center|71-71=142||align=center|−2 |- | align=center|4|| {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Song-Hee Kim]]||align=center|70-73=143||align=center|−1 |- | rowspan=3 align=center|T5|| {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Kyeong Eun Bae]]||align=center|73-71=144||rowspan=3 align=center|E |- | {{flagicon|USA}} [[Christina Kim]]||align=center|73-71=144 |- | {{flagicon|TWN}} [[Yani Tseng]]||align=center|74-70=144 |- | rowspan=2 align=center|T8|| {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Sophie Gustafson]]||align=center|74-71=145||rowspan=2 align=center|+1 |- | {{flagicon|NOR}} [[Marianne Skarpnord]]||align=center|76-69=145 |- | rowspan=4 align=center|T10|| {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Park Hee-young|Hee-Young Park]]||align=center|71-75=146||rowspan=4 align=center|+2 |- | {{flagicon|USA}} [[Jane Park]]||align=center|74-72=146 |- | {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Ai Miyazato]]||align=center|75-71=146 |- | {{flagicon|USA}} [[Angela Stanford]]||align=center|70-76=146 |}

=== Third round=== ''Saturday, 1 August 2009''

{| class="wikitable" ! Place !! Player !! Score !! To par |- | align=center|1|| {{flagicon|SCO}} [[Catriona Matthew]]||align=center|74-67-71=212||align=center|−4 |- | align=center|2|| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Christina Kim]]||align=center|73-71-71=215||align=center|−1 |- | rowspan=2 align=center|T3|| {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Ai Miyazato]]||align=center|75-71-70=216||rowspan=2 align=center|E |- | {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Jiyai Shin]]||align=center|77-71-68=216 |- | rowspan=2 align=center|T5|| {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Song-Hee Kim]]||align=center|70-73-74=217||rowspan=2 align=center|+1 |- | {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Mika Miyazato]]||align=center|76-72-69=217 |- | rowspan=4 align=center|T7|| {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Kyeong Eun Bae]]||align=center|73-71-74=218||rowspan=4 align=center|+2 |- | {{flagicon|USA}} [[Paula Creamer]]||align=center|74-74-70=218 |- | {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Shinobu Moromizato]]||align=center|74-73-71=218 |- | {{flagicon|USA}} [[Jane Park]]||align=center|74-72-72=218 |}

===Final round=== ''Sunday, 2 August 2009'' {|class="wikitable" ! Place !! Player !! Score !! To par || Money ([[United States dollar|$]]) |- | align=center|1|| {{flagicon|SCO}} '''[[Catriona Matthew]]'''||74-67-71-73=285||align=center|−3 ||align=center|335,000 |- | align=center|2|| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Karrie Webb]]||77-71-72-68=288||align=center|E||align=center|210,000 |- | rowspan="4" align=center|T3|| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Paula Creamer]]||74-74-70-71=289||rowspan="4" align=center|+1||rowspan=4 align=center|109,500 |- | {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Hee-Won Han]]||77-73-69-70=289 |- | {{flagicon|USA}} [[Christina Kim]]||73-71-71-74=289 |- | {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Ai Miyazato]]||75-71-70-73=289 |- | align=center|7|| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Kristy McPherson]] || 74-74-72-70=290 || align=center|+2 || align=center|74,000 |- | rowspan="3" align=center|T8|| {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Na Yeon Choi]]||80-71-70-70=291||rowspan="3" align=center|+3||rowspan=3 align=center|61,000 |- | {{flagicon|USA}} [[Cristie Kerr]]||76-71-75-69=291 |- | {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Jiyai Shin]]||77-71-68-75=291 |} Source:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.golfchannel.com/tours/lpga/2009/ricoh-womens-british-open/ |publisher=Golf Channel |title=RICOH Women's British Open |accessdate=4 September 2018}}</ref>

====Scorecard==== ''Final round'' {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" !Hole!! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !!10!!11!!12!!13!!14!!15!!16!!17!!18 |- |Par||3||4||4||4||3||5||5||4||3||4||5||3||4||4||5||4||4||4 |- |align=left| {{flagicon|SCO}} Matthew || style="background: PaleGreen;"|−3 || −3 || style="background: PaleGreen;"|−2 || −2 || −2 || −2 || −2 || −2 || −2 || style="background: PaleGreen;"|−1 || −1 || −1 || style="background: Pink;"|−2 || style="background: Pink;"|−3 || style="background: Pink;"|−4 || −4 || style="background: PaleGreen;"|−3 || −3 |- |align=left| {{flagicon|AUS}} Webb || +4 || +4 || +4 || +4 || +4 || style="background: Pink;"|+3 || +3 || +3 || +3 || +3 || +3 || +3 || +3 || +3 || style="background: Red;"|+1 || style="background: Pink;"|E || E || E |- |align=left| {{flagicon|USA}} Creamer || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+3 || style="background: Pink;"|+2 || +2 || +2 || +2 || +2 || style="background: Pink;"|+1 || +1 || +1 || +1 || +1 || +1 || +1 || +1 || style="background: Pink;"|E || style="background: Pink;"|−1 || −1 || style="background: Green;"|+1 |- |align=left| {{flagicon|KOR}} Han || +3 || style="background: Pink;"|+2 || +2 || +2 || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+3 || +3 || +3 || +3 || +3 || style="background: Pink;"|+2 || style="background: Pink;"|+1 || +1 || +1 || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+2 || style="background: Pink;"|+1 || +1 || +1 || +1 |- |align=left| {{flagicon|USA}} Kim || −1 || style="background: PaleGreen;"|E || E || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+1 || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+2 || +2 || style="background: Pink;"|+1 || +1 || +1 || +1 || +1 || style="background: Pink;"|E || E || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+1 || style="background: Pink;"|E || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+1 || +1 || +1 |- |align=left| {{flagicon|JPN}} Miyazato || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+1 || style="background: Pink;"|E || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+1 || +1 || +1 || style="background: Pink;"|E || style="background: Pink;"|−1 || −1 || −1 || −1 || −1 || −1 || −1 || style="background: PaleGreen;"|E || style="background: Pink;"|−1 || −1 || style="background: Green;"|+1 || +1 |- |align=left| {{flagicon|USA}} McPherson || +4 || +4 || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+5 || +5 || +5 || style="background: Pink;"|+4 || +4 || +4 || +4 || style="background: Pink;"|+3 || style="background: Pink;"|+2 || +2 || +2 || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+3 || +3 || +3 || style="background: Pink;"|+2 || +2 |- |align=left| {{flagicon|KOR}} Shin || E || E || E || E || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+1 || +1 || +1 || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+2 || +2 || style="background: Pink;"|+1 || +1 || style="background: PaleGreen;"|+2 || +2 || +2 || style="background: Pink;"|+1 || +1 || +1 || style="background: Green;"|+3 |} ''Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par'' :{|class="wikitable" span = 50 style="font-size:85%; |- |style="background: Red;" width=10| |Eagle |style="background: Pink;" width=10| |Birdie |style="background: PaleGreen;" width=10| |Bogey |style="background: Green;" width=10| |Double bogey |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130726061607/http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/tic_tournament.php?id=2009_TM14 Ladies European Tour:] 2009 Ricoh Women's British Open results *[http://www.lpga.com/golf/tournaments/lpga/ricoh-womens-british-open/full-results.aspx?year=2009 LPGA:] 2009 Ricoh Women's British Open results

{{Women's Golf Major Championships master|2009}} {{Women's British Open championships}} {{coord|53.7495|-3.0180|type:event|display=title}}

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