About the CN Canadian Women's Open:
• When: Aug. 22-25
• Where: Royal Mayfair Golf Club, Edmonton, Alberta
2012 Canadian Women's Open
At age 15, amateur Lydia Ko won the tournament by three strokes, becoming the youngest-ever winner on the LPGA Tour. Ko also is the first amateur since 1969 to win on the LPGA. Runner-up Inbee Park collected the first-place money since Ko, as an amateur, couldn't accept the check.
CN Canadian Women's Open Records:
- 18 holes: 62 - Song-Hee Kim, 2009
- 72 holes: 268 - Lorena Ochoa, 2007
CN Canadian Women's Open Golf Courses:
CN Canadian Women's Open Trivia and Notes:
- The first five years of the tournament's history, it was 54 holes in length. It switched to its current 72-hole format in 1978.
- Jocelyne Bourassa won the inaugural tournament, then called the La Canadienne, in 1973. Bourassa is the only Canadian golfer to date to win the Canadian Women's Open.
- From 1979 through 2000, this tournament - known as the du Maurier Classic for most of those years - was counted as an LPGA major. But when du Maurier dropped sponsorship, the tourney lost its major championship status (replaced by the Women's British Open). All winners from those years are still credited with major championship victories, however.
- Meg Mallon (2000, 2002, 2004) and Pat Bradley (1980, 1985, 1986) share the tournament record for wins with three each.
- Beth Daniel's win in 2003 was the 33rd - and last - victory of her LPGA career.
- Ayako Okamoto never won the Canadian Women's Open, despite carrying a 6-stroke lead into the final round in 1987. That's the record for largest 54-hole lead, and also for largest 54-hole lead lost. Okamota finished runner-up three times here, another tournament record.
- Cristie Kerr began the final round in 2006 eight strokes behind leader Angela Stanford. But Kerr shot 65 to Stanford's 74 to get the win - and the tournament record for biggest final-round comeback.
- When Song-Hee Kim set the tournament's 18-hole scoring record in 2009, her 62 included one nine of 28, also a tourney record.
- LPGA history was made at the 2012 event when amateur Lydia Ko, just 15 years old, won. Ko became the youngest winner in tour history, plus the first amateur to win on the LPGA Tour since 1969.
Canadian Women's Open Winners:
CN Canadian Women's Open
2012 - a-Lydia Ko, 275
2011 - Brittany Lincicome, 275
2010 - Michelle Wie, 276
2009 - Suzann Pettersen, 269
2008 - Katherine Hull, 277
2007 - Lorena Ochoa, 268
2006 - Cristie Kerr, 276
BMO Financial Group Canadian Women's Open
2005 - Meena Lee, 279
2004 - Meg Mallon, 270
2003 - Beth Daniel, 276
Bank of Montreal Canadian Women's Open
2002 - Meg Mallon, 284
2001 - Annika Sorenstam, 272
du Maurier Classic
2000 - Meg Mallon, 282
1999 - Karrie Webb, 277
1998 - Brandie Burton, 270
1997 - Colleen Walker, 278
1996 - Laura Davies, 277
1995 - Jenny Lidback, 280
1994 - Martha Nause, 279
1993 - Brandie Burton-p, 277
1992 - Sherri Steinhauer, 277
1991 - Nancy Scranton, 279
1990 - Cathy Johnston, 276
1989 - Tammie Green, 279
1988 - Sally Little, 279
1987 - Jody Rosenthal (Anschutz)-p, 272
1986 - Pat Bradley-p, 276
1985 - Pat Bradley, 278
1984 - Juli Inkster, 279
Peter Jackson Classic
1983 - Hollis Stacy, 277
1982 - Sandra Haynie, 280
1981 - Jan Stephenson, 278
1980 - Pat Bradley, 277
1979 - Amy Alcott, 285
1978 - JoAnne Carner, 278
1977 - Judy Rankin, 212
1976 - Donna Caponi-p, 212
1975 - JoAnne Carner-p, 214
1974 - Carole Jo Skala, 208
La Canadienne
1973 - Jocelyne Bourassa-p, 214
