2020 Ladies European Tour

2020 Ladies European Tour season
DurationFebruary 2020 (2020-02) – November 2020 (2020-11)
Number of official events25 (13 cancelled)
Most wins Emily Kristine Pedersen (4)
Order of Merit Emily Kristine Pedersen
Player of the Year Emily Kristine Pedersen
Rookie of the Year Stephanie Kyriacou
Lowest stroke average Emily Kristine Pedersen
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2021 →

The 2020 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET).

The season was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with many tournaments either being postponed or cancelled. Among the cancellations was The Evian Championship, one of the LPGA Tour's five major championships.[1]

Schedule

The table below shows part of the 2020 schedule.[2] The numbers in brackets after the winners' names indicate the career wins on the Ladies European Tour, including that event, and is only shown for members of the tour.

Key
Major championships
Regular events
Team championships
Date Tournament Location Winner[a] WWGR
points 		Purse Other
tours[b] 		Notes
23 Feb Australian Ladies Classic Bonville Australia Stephanie Kyriacou (n/a,a) 10 €240,000 ALPG
1 Mar Women's NSW Open Australia Julia Engström (1) 6 €210,000 ALPG
14 Mar Investec South African Women's Open South Africa Alice Hewson (1) 6 €200,000 SLT
17 May La Reserva de Sotogrande Invitational Spain Postponed –
31 May Mithra Belgian Ladies Open Belgium Cancelled[3] –
7 Jun Lalla Meryem Cup Morocco Postponed[4] –
14 Jun Scandinavian Mixed Sweden Cancelled[4] – EUR New event
20 Jun
(9 May) 		Jabra Ladies Open France Postponed –
5 Jul Dutch Ladies Open Netherlands Cancelled –
19 Jul Estrella Damm Mediterranean Ladies Open Spain Postponed –
9 Aug
(26 Jul) 		Evian Championship France Cancelled[1] – LPGA
9 Aug ISPS Handa World Invitational Northern Ireland Cancelled[5] – New event
16 Aug Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish Open Scotland Stacy Lewis (n/a) 34 $1,500,000 LPGA
23 Aug AIG Women's British Open England Sophia Popov (1) 100 $4,500,000 LPGA
30 Aug Tipsport Czech Ladies Open Czech Republic Emily Kristine Pedersen (2) 6 €200,000
6 Sep Creekhouse Ladies Open Sweden Cancelled[6] – New event
12 Sep VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open Switzerland Amy Boulden (1) 6 €200,000
19 Sep Lacoste Ladies Open de France France Julia Engström (2) 6 €200,000
27 Sep Ladies European Thailand Championship Thailand Cancelled –
4 Oct Hero Women's Indian Open India Cancelled[7] –
6 Nov Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic United Arab Emirates Minjee Lee (2) 16.5 €260,000
15 Nov Magical Kenya Ladies Open Kenya Cancelled –
15 Nov[c]
(11 Oct)
(22 Mar) 		Aramco Saudi Ladies International Saudi Arabia Emily Kristine Pedersen (3) 14 $1,000,000 New event
19 Nov Saudi Ladies Team International Saudi Arabia Emily Kristine Pedersen (4) 14 $200,000 New event;
Aramco Team Series Individual event
29 Nov Andalucia Costa Del Sol Open De España Spain Emily Kristine Pedersen (5) 6 €600,000

Unofficial events

The following events appear on the schedule, but does not carry ranking points.

Date Tournament Host country Winner(s) Purse Notes
8 Aug Olympic women's golf competition Japan Postponed until 2021 –
19 Nov Saudi Ladies Team International Saudi Arabia Emily Kristine Pedersen (c)
Casandra Hall
Michele Thomson
Matt Selby (a) 		$300,000 Aramco Team Series Team event
Notes
  1. ^ (a) – Amateur
  2. ^ ALPG − ALPG Tour, EUR − European Tour, LPGA − LPGA Tour, SLT − Sunshine Ladies Tour.
  3. ^ Rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8][9]

Order of Merit rankings

Rank Player Country Points
1 Emily Kristine Pedersen  Denmark 1,249.35
2 Julia Engström  Sweden 415.70
3 Stephanie Kyriacou  Australia 323.78
4 Manon De Roey  Belgium 317.45
5 Sanna Nuutinen  Finland 312.56
6 Azahara Muñoz  Spain 272.96
7 Nuria Iturrioz  Spain 256.02
8 Georgia Hall  England 255.37
9 Anne Van Dam  Netherlands 234.46
10 Laura Fünfstück  Germany 233.17

Source:[10]

Location of tournaments

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Coronavirus & golf: LPGA Evian Championship in France cancelled". BBC Sport. 9 June 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Ladies European Tour to 'unite' with LPGA". BBC Sport. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Le Ladies European Tour reporte le Mithra Belgian Ladies Open" (in French). Golf.be. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Statement on Trophée Hassan II and Scandinavian Mixed hosted by Henrik and Annika". LET. Archived from the original on 9 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  5. ^ McKendry, Adam (2 April 2020). "Galgorm's 2020 World Invitiational cancelled due to coronavirus". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  6. ^ "Creekhouse Ladies Open postponed to 2021". Ladies European Tour. 10 June 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Hero Women's Indian Open to return in 2021". Ladies European Tour. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Inaugural Aramco Saudi Ladies International Presented by Public Investment Fund re-scheduled for October 2020". Ladies European Tour. 4 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Saudi Arabia announces double-header of landmark LET events for November". Ladies European Tour. 28 September 2020.
  10. ^ "Order of Merit – 2020 Season". Ladies European Tour.
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