Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship

Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship
Tournament information
Location	Wales
Established	1905
Organised by	Wales Golf
Format	Match play
Current champion
	Isabella Hopkins

The Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship is the women's national amateur match play golf championship of Wales. It was first played in 1905 and is currently organised by Wales Golf.

The Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship is contested in two phases. It begins with a 36 hole stroke play competition, with the leading 16 competitors progressing to the knock-out match play competition.^[1]

It is a close event, entry being restricted to women who were either born in Wales, had one parent or grandparent born in Wales, or have resided in Wales for two years, if under 18, or for three years, if 18 or over. In addition players must not have played in the ladies closed championship of another country within the last two years or have ever played in the full international team of another country.^[1]

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Venue	Ref
2023	Isabella Hopkins	4 & 3	Lauren Hillier	Newport
2022	Ffion Tynan	19 holes	Darcy Harry	Pennard	^[2]
2021	Isabella Hopkins	8 & 7	Ffion Tynan	Wenvoe Castle	^[3]
2020	Not held
2019	Becky Harries	6 & 5	Bethan Morris	Cradoc	^[4]
2018	Lea-Anne Bramwell	2 up	Ffion Tynan	Radyr	^[5]
2017	Lauren Hillier	4 & 3	Alice Barnes	Wrexham	^[6]
2016	Kath O'Connor	2 up	Lauren Hillier	Cardiff	^[7]
2015	Kath O'Connor	2 & 1	Chloe Williams	Vale of Llangollen	^[8]
2014	Katie Bradbury	3 & 2	Becky Harries	Monmouthshire	^[9]
2013	Becky Harries	2 & 1	Chloe Williams	Nefyn & District	^[10]
2012	Amy Boulden	4 & 2	Becky Harries	Cardigan	^[11]
2011	Becky Harries	1 up	Amy Boulden	Royal St David's	^[12]
2010	Tara Davies	2 & 1	Amy Boulden	Glamorganshire	^[13]
2009	Tara Davies	3 & 2	Lucy Gould	Aberdovey	^[14]
2008	Kirsty O'Connor	2 up	Stephanie Evans	Monmouthshire	^[15]
2007	Breanne Loucks	1 up	Tara Davies	Royal St David's	^[16]
2006	Stephanie Evans	3 & 2	Becky Harries	Tenby	^[17]
2005	Sarah Jones	5 & 4	Stephanie Evans	Conwy	^[18]
2004	Sarah Jones	1 up	Anna Highgate	Royal Porthcawl	^[19]
2003	Kate Phillips	2 & 1	Katie Walls	Aberdovey	^[20]
2002	Eleanor Pilgrim	1 up	Anna Highgate	Newport	^[21]
2001	Becky Brewerton	2 & 1	Sarah Jones	Royal St David's	^[22]
2000	Kathryn Evans		Kate Phillips	Pyle & Kenfig
1999	Becky Brewerton		Becky Morgan	Conwy
1998	Louise Davis		Becky Morgan	Ashburnham
1997	Eleanor Pilgrim		Louise Davis	Northop
1996	Lisa Dermott	4 & 3	Vicki Thomas	Tenby	^[23]
1995	Lisa Dermott		Kate Stark	Aberdovey
1994	Vicki Thomas	19 holes	Lisa Dermott	Royal Porthcawl	^[24]
1993	Andrea Donne		Vicki Thomas	Abergele & Pensarn
1992	Julie Foster		Suzy Boyes	Newport
1991	Vicki Thomas		Helen Lawson	Royal St David's
1990	Sharon Roberts		Helen Wadsworth	Ashburnham
1989	Helen Lawson		Vicki Thomas	Conwy (Caernarvonshire)
1988	Sharon Roberts		Fiona Connor	Tenby
1987	Vicki Thomas		Sharon Roberts	Aberdovey
1986	Vicki Thomas		Lisa Isherwood	Royal Porthcawl
1985	Vicki Thomas		Sue Jump	Prestatyn
1984	Sharon Roberts		Karen Davies	Newport
1983	Vicki Thomas		Tegwen Thomas	Llandudno (Maesdu)
1982	Vicki Thomas	7 & 6	Mandy Rawlings	Ashburnham	^[25]
1981	Mandy Rawlings	5 & 3	Audrey Briggs	Royal St David's
1980	Mandy Rawlings	2 & 1	Audrey Briggs	Tenby	^[26]
1979	Vicki Rawlings	2 up	Audrey Briggs	Caernarvonshire	^[27]
1978	Pamela Light	2 & 1	Audrey Briggs	Newport	^[28]
1977	Tegwen Perkins	4 & 3	Pamela Whitley	Aberdovey
1976	Tegwen Perkins	4 & 2	Ann Johnson	Royal Porthcawl
1975	Ann Johnson	1 up	Kerri Rawlings	Prestatyn
1974	Audrey Briggs	3 & 2	Hilary Lyall	Ashburnham	^[29]
1973	Audrey Briggs	3 & 2	Joan John	Holyhead
1972	Ann Hughes	3 & 2	Jane Rogers	Tenby
1971	Audrey Briggs	3 & 1	Penny Davies	Royal St David's
1970	Audrey Briggs	19 holes	Jill Morris	Newport	^[30]
1969	Pat Roberts	3 & 2	Ann Hughes	Caernarvonshire
1968	Sylvia Hales	3 & 2	Nancy Wright	Royal Porthcawl	^[31]
1967	Nancy Wright	21 holes	Christine Phipps	Royal St David's
1966	Ann Hughes	5 & 4	Pat Roberts	Ashburnham
1965	Nancy Wright	3 & 2	Elsie Brown	Prestatyn	^[32]
1964	Mary Oliver	1 up	Nancy Wright	Southerndown	^[33]
1963	Pat Roberts	7 & 5	Nellie Seddon	Royal St David's	^[34]
1962	Mary Oliver	4 & 2	Pat Roberts	Radyr
1961	Mary Oliver	5 & 4	Nellie Seddon	Aberdovey	^[35]
1960	Marjorie Barron	8 & 6	Elsie Brown	Tenby	^[36]
1959	Pat Roberts	6 & 4	Adrienne Gwyther	Caernarvonshire
1958	Nancy Wright	1 up	Pat Roberts	Newport
1957	Marjorie Barron	6 & 4	Pat Roberts	Royal St David's
1956	Pat Roberts	2 & 1	Marjorie Barron	Royal Porthcawl
1955	Nancy Cook	2 up	Pat Roberts	Holyhead
1954	Nancy Cook	1 up	Elsie Brown	Tenby
1953	Nancy Cook	3 & 2	Elsie Lever	North Wales
1952	Elsie Lever	6 & 5	Pat Roberts	Southerndown
1951	Isabella Bromley-Davenport	1 up	Nancy Cook	Royal St David's
1950	Philomena Garfield Evans	2 & 1	Nancy Cook	Royal Porthcawl	^[37]
1949	Sheila Bryan-Smith		Elsie Brown	Newport
1948	Isabella Seely		Marjorie Barron	Prestatyn
1947	Marjorie Barron		Elsie Jones	Prestatyn
1940–1946: Not played due to World War II
1939	Anne Burrell	2 & 1	Hilda Reynolds	Swansea Bay
1938	Barbara Pyman	1 up	Mary Emery	North Wales
1937	Mary Emery	10 & 9	Philomena Whitaker	Royal Porthcawl	^[38]
1936	Alison Rieben	2 & 1	Margaret Thompson	Prestatyn	^[39]
1935	Abandoned due to snow			Tenby
1934	Isabella Rieben	3 & 2	Mary Jestyn Jeffreys	Royal St David's	^[40]
1933	Mary Jestyn Jeffreys	2 & 1	Eileen Bridge	Royal Porthcawl	^[41]
1932	Isabella Rieben	2 & 1	Mary Jestyn Jeffreys	Aberdovey	^[42]
1931	Mary Jestyn Jeffreys	4 & 3	Barbara Pyman	Southerndown	^[43]
1930	Mary Jestyn Jeffreys	2 up	Alison Rieben	Llandudno (Maesdu)	^[44]
1929	Alison Rieben	2 & 1	Barbara Pyman	Tenby	^[45]
1928	Margery Duncan	4 & 2	Alison Rieben	Royal St David's
1927	Margery Duncan	1 up	Molly Blake	Royal Porthcawl	^[46]
1926	Mary Justice	4 & 3	Dora Smalley	Aberdovey
1925	Margaret Cox	9 & 7	Violet Rhys	Tenby	^[47]
1924	Margaret Cox	11 & 10	Barbara Pyman	Rhyl	^[48]
1923	Margaret Cox	39 holes	Molly Marley	Southerndown	^[49]
1922	Margery Duncan	9 & 8	Emily Franklin Thomas	Llandrindod Wells
1921	Molly Marley	7 & 5	Alison Rieben	Aberdovey	^[50]^[51]
1920	Isabel Phillips	8 & 6	Molly Marley	Royal Porthcawl	^[52]
1915–1919: Not played due to World War I
1914	Mabel Phelips	4 & 3	Edith Morgan	Tenby	^[53]
1913	Dorothy Brooke	19 holes	Phyllis Shaw	Rhos-on-Sea	^[54]
1912	Blanche Duncan	4 & 2	Polto Williams	Llandrindod Wells	^[55]
1911	Edith Clay	2 & 1	Kathleen Allington-Hughes	Royal Porthcawl	^[56]
1910	Vivien Lloyd-Roberts	4 & 3	Beatrice Leaver	Rhyl	^[57]
1909	Blanche Duncan	4 & 3	Mary Ellis-Griffith	Southerndown	^[58]
1908	Blanche Duncan	4 & 2	Nest Lloyd-Williams	Carnarvonshire	^[59]
1907	Blanche Duncan	5 & 4	Florence Wenham	Porthcawl	^[60]
1906	Blanche Duncan	5 & 4	Beatrice Storry	Radyr	^[61]
1905	Evelyn Young	2 & 1	Blanche Duncan	Glamorganshire	^[62]

Source:^[63]

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