title: Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship
text: # Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship
  
  Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship was founded in 1969 by the Ladies' Golf Union (now merged into The R&A) of Great Britain.
  
  A stroke play tournament over 72 holes, it was discontinued by the R&A after the 2017 tournament won by Linn Grant in favour of a new Girls U16 Amateur Championship.
  
  Notably, in 2000 Rebecca Hudson won the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship match play title as well as the Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship. Leona Maguire, at age 16, was the youngest player to win the event.
  
  ## Winners
  
  | Year | Winner | Score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Venue |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 2017 | Linn Grant | 288 | 3 strokes | Hannah Screen Annabel Wilson | North Berwick Golf Club |
  | 2016 | Sophie Lamb | 291 | 2 strokes | Chloe Williams | Knock Golf Club |
  | 2015 | Aditi Ashok | 285 | 5 strokes | Olivia Mehaffey | Moortown Golf Club |
  | 2014 | Meghan MacLaren | 292 | 1 stroke | Sarah-Jane Boyd | Ashburnham Golf Club |
  | 2013 | Jing Yan | 282 | 2 strokes | Gemma Dryburgh | Prestwick Golf Club |
  | 2012 | Sarah-Jane Boyd | 294 | 2 strokes | Amy Boulden | Shandon Park Golf Club |
  | 2011 | Leona Maguire | 288 | 6 strokes | Laurence Herman | Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club |
  | 2010 | Pamela Pretswell | 218 | 3 strokes | Amy Boulden | Tenby Golf Club |
  | 2009 | Danielle McVeigh | 304 | 1 stroke | Hannah Turland | Royal Aberdeen Golf Club |
  | 2008 | Roseanne Niven | 288 | Playoff | Kylie Walker | Malone Golf Club |
  | 2007 | Melissa Reid | 290 | 1 stroke | Florentyna Parker | Conwy Golf Club |
  | 2006 | Anna Rossi | 290 | 1 stroke | Rachel Bell | Prince's Golf Club |
  | 2005 | Heather MacRae | 288 | Playoff | Nicole Gergely | Nairn Golf Club |
  | 2004 | Clare Queen | 294 | Playoff | Stephanie Evans Shelley McKevit | Alwoodley Golf Club |
  | 2003 | Shelley McKevitt | 306 | 1 stroke | Lynn Kenny | Royal Portrush Golf Club |
  | 2002 | Becky Brewerton | 291 | 3 strokes | Clare Queen | Hunstanton Golf Club |
  | 2001 | Rebecca Hudson | 300 | 2 strokes | Alison Coffey | Kilmarnock (Barassie) Golf Club |
  | 2000 | Rebecca Hudson | 294 | 5 strokes | Heather Stirling | Royal County Down Golf Club |
  | 1999 | Becky Brewerton | 294 | Playoff | Niloufar Azam | Huddersfield Golf Club |
  | 1998 | Nienke Nijenhuis | 297 | 1 stroke | Becky Morgan | Stirling Golf Club |
  | 1997 | Karen Margrethe Juul | 293 | 3 strokes | Elaine Ratcliffe | Silloth on Solway Golf Club |
  | 1996 | Christina Kuld | 289 | 4 strokes | Elaine Ratcliffe | Conwy Golf Club |
  | 1995 | Maria José Pons | 289 | 3 strokes | Elaine Ratcliffe | Prince's Golf Club |
  | 1994 | Kirsty Speak | 297 | 2 strokes | Eileen Rose Power | Woodhall Spa Golf Club |
  | 1993 | Julie Hall | 290 | 6 strokes | Lynnette Brooky | Gullane Golf Club |
  | 1992 | Joanne Hockley | 287 | 3 strokes | Rachel Bolas | Frilford Heath Golf Club |
  | 1991 | Joanne Morley | 297 | 2 strokes | Janice Moodie | Long Ashton Golf Club |
  | 1990 | Vicki Thomas | 287 | 1 stroke | Claire Hourihane | Strathaven Golf Club |
  | 1989 | Helen Dobson | 298 | 2 strokes | Nadene Hall | Southerness Golf Club |
  | 1988 | Karen Mitchell | 317 | 2 strokes | Mary McKenna Julie Wade | Royal Porthcawl Golf Club |
  | 1987 | Linda Bayman | 297 | 2 strokes | Jill Thornhill Nicola Way | Ipswich Golf Club |
  | 1986 | Claire Hourihane | 298 | Playoff | Trish Johnson | Blairgowrie Golf Club |
  | 1985 | Belle Robertson | 305 | 4 strokes | Cindy Scholefield | Formby Golf Club |
  | 1984 | Claire Waite | 285 | 2 strokes | Mary McKenna | Conwy Golf Club |
  | 1983 | Alison Nicholas | 292 | 2 strokes | Jane Connachan | Moortown Golf Club |
  | 1982 | Jane Connachan | 294 | 5 strokes | Barbara Bunkowsky Claire Waite | Downfield Golf Club |
  | 1981 | Janet Soulsby | 300 | 2 strokes | Jane Connachan | Royal Norwich Golf Club |
  | 1980 | Maureen Madill | 304 | Playoff | Pamela Wright | Brancepeth Castle Golf Club |
  | 1979 | Mary McKenna | 305 | 2 strokes | Vicki Rawlings | Moseley Golf Club |
  | 1976–1978: Contested as Women's British Open |||||||
  | 1975 | Julia Greenhalgh | 298 | 3 strokes | Suzanne Cadden | Northumberland Golf Club |
  | 1974 | Julia Greenhalgh | 302 | 3 strokes | Tegwen Perkins | Seaton Carew Golf Club |
  | 1973 | Anne Stant | 298 | 3 strokes | Mary Everard | Ipswich Golf Club |
  | 1972 | Belle Robertson | 296 | 1 stroke | Michelle Walker | Silloth on Solway Golf Club |
  | 1971 | Belle Robertson | 302 | 3 strokes | Mary Everard | Ayr Belleisle Golf Club |
  | 1970 | Mary Everard | 313 | 2 strokes | Frances Smith | Royal Birkdale Golf Club |
  | 1969 | Ann Irvin | 295 | 9 strokes | Dinah Oxley | Northumberland Golf Club |
  