CP Women's Open Golf Tournament

The LPGA tournament was once a major called the du Maurier Classic

Lydia Ko kisses the Canadian Pacific Women's Open trophy after winning in 2015
Lydia Ko has three wins in the Canadian Pacific Women's Open, including two while still an amateur. Harry How/Getty Images
by Brent Kelley
Brent Kelley is an award-winning sports journalist and golf expert with over 30 years in print and online journalism.
Updated August 25, 2019

The CP Women's Open (the CP is for Canadian Pacific) is one of the longer-running current events on the LPGA Tour, dating to 1973. It has been known as the Canadian Women's Open since 2001; prior to that the tournament went by several different names. One of those was the du Maurier Classic, and under that name this event counted as an LPGA major from 1979-2000. CN - the Canadian National Railway Company - became the title sponsor om 2006. Another railroad, Canadian Pacific, took over as title sponsor in 2014, and the name changed to Canadian Pacific Women's Open.

2019 Tournament
Jin Young Ko won her fourth LPGA tournament of 2019 and the sixth of her LPGA Tour career. Ko made 26 birdies and zero bogeys throughout the tournament, eight of those birdies coming in the final round. Ko closed with a 64 to finish at 26-under 262, lowering the tournament scoring record by three strokes. Nicole Broch Larsen was the runner-up, five behind. Defending champ Brooke Henderson tied for third.

2018 CP Women's Open
No Canadian golfer had won this tournament since 1973 when, in the first year of existence, Jocelyne Bourassa accomplished the feat. No Canadian, that is, until Brooke Henderson's victory in 2018. Henderson finished off the win with a birdie on the final hole, finishing at 21-under 267 and with a four-stroke victory over Angel Yin. It was her seventh career LPGA Tour win.

2017 Tournament
After starting the day tied for 12th place, LPGA rookie Sung Hyun Park fired a final-round 64 to win by two strokes. Park's winning score was 13-under 271. It was Park's second LPGA Tour victory and came six weeks after her win at the U.S. Open.

Canadian Pacific Women's Open Records:

  • 18 holes: 62 - Song-Hee Kim, 2009
  • 72 holes: 262 - Jin Young Ko, 2019

Canadian Pacific Women's Open Golf Courses:

The Canadian Women's Open rotates to golf courses around Canada, visiting a different course each year.

Canadian Pacific Women's Open Trivia and Notes:

  • The first five years of the tournament's history, it was 54 holes in length. It switched to its current 72-hole format in 1978.
  • Jocelyne Bourassa won the inaugural tournament, then called the La Canadienne, in 1973. It wasn't until Brooke Henderson's 2018 win that another Canadian won it..
  • From 1979 through 2000, this tournament - known as the du Maurier Classic for most of those years - was counted as an LPGA major. But when du Maurier dropped sponsorship, the tourney lost its major championship status (replaced by the Women's British Open). All winners from those years are still credited with major championship victories, however.
  • Meg Mallon (2000, 2002, 2004), Pat Bradley (1980, 1985, 1986) and Lydia Ko (2012, 2013, 2015) share the tournament record for wins with three each.
  • Beth Daniel's win in 2003 was the 33rd - and last - victory of her LPGA career.
  • Ayako Okamoto never won the Canadian Women's Open, despite carrying a 6-stroke lead into the final round in 1987. That's the record for largest 54-hole lead, and also for largest 54-hole lead lost. Okamota finished runner-up three times here, another tournament record.
  • Cristie Kerr began the final round in 2006 eight strokes behind leader Angela Stanford. But Kerr shot 65 to Stanford's 74 to get the win - and the tournament record for biggest final-round comeback.
  • When Song-Hee Kim set a tournament 18-hole scoring record in 2009, her 62 included one nine of 28, also a tourney record.
  • LPGA history was made at the 2012 event when amateur Lydia Ko, just 15 years old, won. Ko became the youngest winner in tour history, plus the first amateur to win on the LPGA Tour since 1969. Then, at the 2013 tournament, Ko, still an amateur, won again.

CP Women's Open Winners:

(p-won playoff)

2019 - Jin Young Ko,
2018 - Brooke Henderson, 267

Canadian Pacific Women's Open
2017 - Sung Hyun Park, 271

CN Canadian Women's Open
2016 - Ariya Jutanugarn, 265
2015 - Lydia Ko-p, 276
2014 - So Yeon Ryu, 265
2013 - a-Lydia Ko, 265
2012 - a-Lydia Ko, 275
2011 - Brittany Lincicome, 275
2010 - Michelle Wie, 276
2009 - Suzann Pettersen, 269
2008 - Katherine Hull, 277
2007 - Lorena Ochoa, 268
2006 - Cristie Kerr, 276

BMO Financial Group Canadian Women's Open
2005 - Meena Lee, 279
2004 - Meg Mallon, 270
2003 - Beth Daniel, 276

Bank of Montreal Canadian Women's Open
2002 - Meg Mallon, 284
2001 - Annika Sorenstam, 272

du Maurier Classic (These winners are counted as LPGA major champions.)
2000 - Meg Mallon, 282
1999 - Karrie Webb, 277
1998 - Brandie Burton, 270
1997 - Colleen Walker, 278
1996 - Laura Davies, 277
1995 - Jenny Lidback, 280
1994 - Martha Nause, 279
1993 - Brandie Burton-p, 277
1992 - Sherri Steinhauer, 277
1991 - Nancy Scranton, 279
1990 - Cathy Johnston, 276
1989 - Tammie Green, 279
1988 - Sally Little, 279
1987 - Jody Rosenthal (Anschutz)-p, 272
1986 - Pat Bradley-p, 276
1985 - Pat Bradley, 278
1984 - Juli Inkster, 279

Peter Jackson Classic
1983 - Hollis Stacy, 277
1982 - Sandra Haynie, 280
1981 - Jan Stephenson, 278
1980 - Pat Bradley, 277
1979 - Amy Alcott, 285
1978 - JoAnne Carner, 278
1977 - Judy Rankin, 212
1976 - Donna Caponi-p, 212
1975 - JoAnne Carner-p, 214
1974 - Carole Jo Skala, 208

La Canadienne
1973 - Jocelyne Bourassa-p, 214