Unlike the four men’s Majors, the women’s is made up of a quintet: the US Women’s Open, the AIG Women’s Open, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the Evian Championship and the Chevron Championship.
The US Women’s Open is the oldest of the five Majors, dating back to 1946, and it has the largest purse. In 2022, the prize fund nearly doubled from $5.5 million to $10 million. Now $12 million, the 81st edition of the USGA event will take place at Riviera Country Club, home of the Genesis Invitational, in June this year.
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The Ladies European Tour sanctions the AIG Women’s British Open and the Evian Championship. The Open was established in 1976, but women’s golf in Europe lagged behind the trailblazing United States.
The LPGA didn’t officially recognise the Women’s British Open as a Major until 2001. Unlike the men’s rendition of the Open Championship, the women’s Open is not solely played on links-style courses. In recent times, it has been hosted by Walton Heath, Sunningdale and Woburn.
The Evian is played at the Evian Resort Golf Club in France, and has been held in July for the most part. Originally, it was just a standard LET event before being co-sanctioned by the LPGA in 2000. It was only in 2013 that it was announced that the Evian Masters would become the Evian Championship and thus be considered a Major Championship, the fifth in total.
The LPGA states all five of these tournaments as Majors, but the LET only recognises the two that it hosts as Majors, which instigates the confusion surrounding the women’s Career Grand Slam.
Additionally, some of the Majors only became such relatively recently, so if someone won the event before its elevated status, does it still count as a Major retrospectively?
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