As we build towards this year’s Championship, we look back at the last four winners of the AIG Women’s Open — a run of golf that’s given us a dramatic play-off, a career-defining redemption, a golden summer, and a name etched into history on debut.

2022 — Ashleigh Buhai (Muirfield)
Buhai became just the second South African winner of the Championship, but she had to earn it the hard way — beating In Gee Chun in a gripping four-hole play-off. It capped a career-best run of form and one of the most dramatic finishes the Championship has produced in recent years.

2023 — Lilia Vu (Walton Heath)
Vu arrived at Walton Heath tied for the lead with home favourite Charley Hull, then pulled away for good with a birdie at the third. A closing 67 saw her win by six shots — her second major of the year, and a stunning turnaround for a player who’d once questioned whether she had a future in the game at all.

2024 — Lydia Ko (St Andrews)
Ko’s win at the home of golf came just two weeks after Olympic gold in Paris — the result that finally secured her place in the LPGA Hall of Fame. She birdied the 72nd hole in gruelling, wind-lashed conditions to edge out a stacked leaderboard of past and present world number ones, capping the most golden month of her career.

2025 — Miyu Yamashita (Royal Porthcawl)
Yamashita became the third Japanese winner of the Championship, holding off a spirited Charley Hull charge with a closing 70 — earned, fittingly, the day after her 24th birthday. It was her first LPGA Tour win of any kind, arriving in only her rookie season on tour.

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