2005 Ladies European Tour

The 2005 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from January through December 2005. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET).

2005 Ladies European Tour season
DurationFebruary 2005 (2005-02) – September 2005 (2005-09)
Number of official events21
Order of MeritDenmark Iben Tinning
2004
2006

Tournaments

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The table below shows the 2005 schedule.[1] The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the Ladies European Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for members of the tour.

Date Name Venue Location Winner Prize fund Prize fund (€) Notes
3–5 Feb Samsung Ladies Masters Laguna National Golf & Country Club Singapore   Song Bo-bae (n/a) $200,000 150,590 Team event co-sanctioned by the five main women's tours
Unofficial prize money
11–13 Feb Women's World Cup of Golf The Links, Fancourt Resort South Africa   Japan
Ai Miyazato & Rui Kitada
$1,000,000 752,950 Team event
Unofficial prize money
24–27 Feb ANZ Ladies Masters RACV Royal Pines Resort Australia   Karrie Webb (7) $800,000 499,216 Co-sanctioned by the ALPG Tour
31 Mar – 3 Apr Thailand Ladies Open Alpine Golf & Sports Club Thailand   Shani Waugh (3) $330,000 248,474
7–10 Apr Tenerife Ladies Open Costa Adeje GC Spain   Ludivine Kreutz (2) 242,000 €242,000
12–15 May Open de España Femenino Panorámica Club de Golf Spain   Iben Tinning (3) €275,000 275,000
26–29 May Siemens Austrian Ladies Open Golfclub Fohrenwald Austria   Federica Piovano (1) €250,000 250,000
2–5 Jun BMW Ladies Italian Open Parco de' Medici Italy   Iben Tinning (4) €300,000 300,000
9–12 Jun Vediorbis Open de France Dames Golf d'Arras France   Veronica Zorzi (1) €300,000 300,000
24–26 Jun Algarve Ladies Open of Portugal Gramacho Pestana Golf Resort Portugal   Cecilia Ekelundh (2) €300,000 300,000
8–10 Jul Ladies English Open Chart Hills Golf Club, Biddenden England   Maria Hjorth (2) €165,000 165,000
14–16 Jul Ladies Central European Open Old Lake Golf Club Hungary   Ludivine Kreutz (3) €165,000 165,000
20–23 Jul Evian Masters Evian Resort Golf Club France   Paula Creamer (n/a) $2,500,000 1,882,375 Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour
28–31 Jul Weetabix Women's British Open Royal Birkdale Golf Club England   Jang Jeong (n/a) $1,800,000 1,499,571 Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour
4–7 Aug Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika Barsebäck Golf & Country Club Sweden   Annika Sörenstam (13) €495,000 495,000
11–14 Aug Wales Ladies Championship of Europe Machynys Peninsula Golf Country Club, Llanelli Wales   Kirsty Taylor (1) £350,000 510,650
26–28 Aug Finnair Masters Helsinki Golf Club Finland   Lisa Holm Sorensen (1) €200,000 200,000
1–4 Sep Nykredit Masters Kokkedal Golfklub Denmark   Iben Tinning (5) €200,000 200,000
9–11 Sep Solheim Cup Crooked Stick Golf Club United States   United States Team event; no prize money Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour
16–18 Sep KLM Ladies Open Kennemer Golf & Country Club Netherlands   Virginie Lagoutte (1) €165,000 165,000
22–24 Sep Catalonia Ladies Masters Golf Platja de Pals Spain   Karine Icher (5) €190,000 190,000

Major championships in bold.

Order of Merit rankings

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Rank Player Earnings () Tournaments
1   Iben Tinning 204,672 15
n/a   Annika Sörenstam 180,639 3
n/a   Sophie Gustafson 168,825 3
2   Gwladys Nocera 164,739 18
3   Maria Hjorth 158,524 8
4   Cecilia Ekelundh 154,893 19
5   Veronica Zorzi 154,184 14
6   Ludivine Kreutz 147,211 18
7   Kirsty Taylor 129,964 17
8   Laura Davies 124,661 7
9   Karine Icher 123,790 7
n/a   Carin Koch 121,105 3
n/a   Liselotte Neumann 119,281 3
10   Trish Johnson 116,190 14

Note: Participation in a minimum of six tournaments was required to be counted for the Order of Merit.

Sources:[2][3][4][5][6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Ladies European Tour: 2005 Tournaments
  2. ^ "Yearly Money Leaders on the Ladies European Tour". golfcompedium.com. Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
  3. ^ "Röd och vit dynamit" [Red and white dynamite]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 11. November 2005. p. 112. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  4. ^ LET Tour Guide 2013. Ladies European Tour. 2013. p. 139.
  5. ^ "Ladies European Tour Information centre, Order of Merit 2005". Ladies European Tour. 2005. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  6. ^ Middleton, Claire (21 December 2005). "Sorenstam clean-up is par for the course". The Telegraph. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
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