Women's Victorian Open

The Women's Victorian Open is an annual golf tournament held in Australia. It was founded in 1988 and played annually through 1992. After a 20-year hiatus it returned in 2012 as a tournament on the ALPG Tour.

Women's Victorian Open

Tournament information
Location	Barwon Heads, Victoria, Australia
Established	1988
Course(s)	13th Beach Golf Links (Beach and Creek Courses)
Par	72
Tour(s)	ALPG Tour LPGA Tour  (2019–) Ladies European Tour (2017–2018)
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	A$1.5 million
Month played	February
Current champion
Park Hee-young

13th Beach

Location in Australia

13th Beach 

Location in Victoria

13th
Beach

Location in greater Melbourne

This was the first time the men's Victorian Open and women's Victorian Open were held concurrently - making it the only professional golf tournament in the world where men and women played the same courses, at the same time, for equal prize money.

In 2013, the men's and women's Victorian Opens moved to 13th Beach Golf Links in Barwon Heads, southwest of Melbourne, near the southwest shore (Bass Strait) of the Bellarine Peninsula.

When the tournament moved to 13th Beach Golf Links in 2013, the combined prize pool was A$300,000, with $150,000 on offer for each of the men's and women's fields.

In six years, the total prize pool has increased ten-fold, with the 2019 men's and women's Victorian Open fields to be playing for a total purse of $3 million ($1.5 million each).

Since 2017, the event became co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour and the ALPG Tour. Like its men's counterpart, it is a two-cut tournament. The field is reduced to 60 after the second round and 35 after the third round; those who fail to make the second cut earn prize money.

Starting in 2019, the event is now co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour, and will continue to be played alongside the men's Victorian Open, now co-sanctioned by the European Tour. The double cut continues; 65 players will remain after the first cut, then 35 players after the Saturday cut.[1]