2007 Women's British Open Explained

The 2007 Women's British Open was the 31st Women's British Open, held 2–5 August at the Old Course at St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. It was the seventh as a major championship on the LPGA Tour and the first-ever women's professional event at the Old Course.^{[4] [5]}

Lorena Ochoa shot a bunker-free and bogey-free 67 (−6) in the opening round and led wire-to-wire to win the first of her two major titles, four strokes ahead of runners-up Maria Hjorth and Jee Young Lee.^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

Prior to Ochoa, the last to win a first major at the Old Course was Tony Lema, 43 years earlier in 1964.^[4] This was the first Women's British Open sponsored by Ricoh, the previous twenty were by Weetabix.

Course

See main article: article and Old Course at St Andrews.

Hole	Name	Yards	Par		Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Burn	376	4		10	Bobby Jones	340	4
2	Dyke	400	4		11	High (In)	160	3
3	Cartgate (Out)	370	4		12	Heathery (In)	314	4
4	Ginger Beer	406	4		13	Hole O'Cross (In)	407	4
5	Hole O'Cross (Out)	514	5		14	Long	523	5
6	Heathery (Out)	369	4		15	Cartgate (In)	414	4
7	High (Out)	353	4		16	Corner of the Dyke	381	4
8	Short	154	3		17	Road	453	5
9	End	347	4		18	Tom Morris	357	4
Out	3,289	36	In		3,349	37
					Total	6,638	73

Source:^{[7] [8]}

• The Road Hole, No. 17, was played as a par 5 for this championship, and was the easiest hole relative to par.^{[8] [9]}

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 2 August 2007

Place	Player	Score	To par
1		67	−6
T2		69	−4
	Inbee Park
T4		70	−3
	Ai Miyazato
T6		71	−2
	Meena Lee
	Brittany Lincicome
	Wendy Ward
T10		72	−1
	Karine Icher
	In-Kyung Kim
	Candie Kung
	Virginie Lagoutte-Clément
	Lee Jee-young
	Sarah Lee
	Min Na-on
	Catrin Nilsmark
	Annika Sörenstam
	Sherri Steinhauer

Second round

Friday, 3 August 2007

Place	Player	Score	To par
1		67-73=140	−6
T2		73-68=141	−5
	71-70=141
T4		74-69=143	−3
	70-73=143
	72-71=143
	72-71=143
	72-71=143
9		73-71=144	−2
T10		69-76=145	−1
	73-72=145
	72-73=145
	72-73=145

Amateurs: Mozo (+1), Reid (+2), Choi (+4), Bell (+5), Edwards (+5), Nordqvist (+5), Smith (+5), Watson (+5), Ciganda (+7), McVeigh (+8)

Third round

Saturday, 4 August 2007

Place	Player	Score	To par
1		67-73-73=213	−6
2		74-73-72=219	E
T3		75-73-72=220	+1
	72-71-77=220
	72-73-75=220
	72-71-77=220
T7		73-71-77=221	+2
	73-68-80=221
	73-73-75=221
	73-74-74=221
	71-70-80=221

Final round

Sunday, 5 August 2007

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Lorena Ochoa	67-73-73-74=287	−5	320,512
T2		75-73-72-71=291	−1	170,272
		72-73-75-71=291
4		73-74-74-71=292	E	110,176
T5		73-71-77-72=293	+1	84,135
		73-73-75-72=293
T7		73-75-74-72=294	+2	61,098
		73-68-80-73=294
		76-70-81-67=294
		74-73-72-75=294

Amateurs: Reid (+4), Smith (+9), Choi (+11), Bell (+12), Watson (+12), Mozo (+13), Nordqvist (+14), Edwards (+20)

Source:^{[1] [2] [4]}

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	5	4
Ochoa	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−8	−8	−7	−8	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−5	−5
Hjorth	+1	E	E	+1	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1
Lee	+1	+1	+1	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−1	E	−1	−2	−1	−1	−1
Rankin	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	+1	E	E	−1	−1	−1	E	E	E	−1	−1	E	E
Ji	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	+1
Pak	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	+1	+1	+2	+1	+1	+1	E	+1	+1	+1
Wessberg	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−3	−2	−2	−2	E	+1	+2	+2	+2

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

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External links

• Ladies European Tour: 2007 Ricoh Women's British Open results
• LPGA: 2007 Ricoh Women's British Open results

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Notes and References

1. News: Golf: Women's British Open . Spokesman-Review . 6 August 2007 . C4 . 26 July 2013.
2. News: Leaderboard: 2007 Ricoh Women's British Open . Yahoo! Sports . 5 August 2007 . 17 July 2013.
3. Web site: Ricoh Women's British Open: 2007 Leaderboard . Ladies European Tour . 5 August 2007 . 17 July 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130726100824/http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/tic_tournament.php?id=2007_TM17 . 26 July 2013 . dead . dmy-all .
4. News: Major relief . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Associated Press . Millward . Robert . 6 August 2007 . D-9 . 26 July 2013.
5. Long Time Coming . https://archive.today/20130718024624/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1105138/index.htm . dead . 18 July 2013 . Sports Illustrated . Anderson . Kelli . 13 August 2007 . 17 July 2013.
6. News: Ochoa opens with 67 at British . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . 3 August 2007 . D-3 . 26 July 2013.
7. Web site: Lorena Ochoa: 2007 Ricoh Women's British Open . https://archive.today/20130718175136/http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/tic_scorecard.php?id=2007_TM17&pid=1362 . dead . 18 July 2013 . Ladies European Tour . 5 August 2007 . 18 July 2013 .
8. Web site: 2007 Ricoh Women's British Open: Course Statistics . Ladies Golf Union . 5 August 2007 . 31 July 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233710/http://info.lgu.org/tic/tmcrsts.cgi?tourn=WBO7~cardlink=Y~~season=2007~style=00~groupties=Y~pr=Y~textout=N~bordersize=1~fontsize=*~winfocus=Y~ . 3 March 2016 . dead .
9. News: Ochoa early leader at St. Andrews; Wie shoots 73 . ESPN . Associated Press . 3 August 2007 . 31 July 2013.
10. Web site: LPGA . RICOH WOMEN'S BRITISH OPEN . October 20, 2018.