Year: | 2021 |
Tour: | Ladies European Tour |
Regular Season: | – |
No Of Events: | 29 (6 cancelled) |
Most Wins: | 2 (tie): Pia Babnik Maja Stark Atthaya Thitikul |
Honor1: | Order of Merit |
Honoree1: | Atthaya Thitikul |
Honor2: | Player of the Year |
Honoree2: | Atthaya Thitikul |
Honor3: | Rookie of the Year |
Honoree3: | Atthaya Thitikul |
Honor4: | Lowest stroke average |
Honoree4: | Leona Maguire |
Prevseason: | 2020 |
Nextseason: | 2022 |
The 2021 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 Australian Swing, the tour's season opening.[1]
The table below shows the 2021 schedule. The season featured a month-long European Swing of the LPGA Tour, starting with the Evian Championship in late July.[2] It also saw the introduction of the Aramco Team Series, four tournaments carrying a $1 million total prize fund each held in London, Sotogrande and New York, concluding in Saudi Arabia in November.[3]
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.
Major championships | |
Regular events | |
Team championships |
Date | Tournament | Location | Winner | WWGR points | Purse | Notes | |
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Australian Ladies Classic | Australia | align=center colspan="2" | Tournament cancelled | Co-sanctioned with the ALPG Tour | |||
New South Wales Women's Open | Australia | align=center colspan="2" | Tournament cancelled | Co-sanctioned with the ALPG Tour | |||
13–16 May | Investec South African Women's Open | South Africa | Lee-Anne Pace (10) | 6 | €200,000 | Co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Ladies Tour | |
28–30 May | Ladies Italian Open | Italy | Lucie Malchirand (1, a) | 6 | €200,000 | Last played in 2014 | |
3–5 Jun | Jabra Ladies Open | France | Pia Babnik (1) | 6 | €200,000 | ||
10–13 Jun | Scandinavian Mixed | Sweden | Alice Hewson (n/c) low woman | 6 | €1,000,000 | Co-sanctioned with the European Tour with field of 78 men and 78 women playing from different tees | |
25–27 Jun | Czech Republic | Atthaya Thitikul (3) | 6 | €200,000 | |||
30 Jun – 3 Jul | Big Green Egg Open | Netherlands | Stephanie Kyriacou (2) | 6 | €200,000 | Last played in 2015 | |
8–10 Jul | Aramco Team Series – London | England | Marianne Skarpnord (5) | 16 | $200,000 | Aramco Team Series Individual event | |
15–17 Jul | Gant Ladies Open | Finland | Matilda Castren (1) | 6 | €200,000 | New event | |
22–25 Jul | Amundi Evian Championship | France | Minjee Lee (n/a) | 100 | $4,500,000 | Co-sanctioned with the LPGA Tour[4] | |
29 Jul – 1 Aug | ISPS Handa World Invitational | Northern Ireland | Pajaree Anannarukarn (1) | 18 | $1,500,000 | Women's event co-sanctioned with the LPGA Tour | |
5–7 Aug | Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande | Spain | Alison Lee (n/a) | 14 | $200,000 | Aramco Team Series Individual event | |
12–15 Aug | Trust Golf Women's Scottish Open | Scotland | Ryann O'Toole (n/a) | 37 | $1,500,000 | Co-sanctioned with the LPGA Tour | |
19–22 Aug | AIG Women's Open | England | Anna Nordqvist (4) | 100 | $5,800,000 | Co-sanctioned with the LPGA Tour | |
27–29 Aug | Didriksons Skaftö Open | Sweden | Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (1) | 6 | €220,000 | New event[5] | |
2–5 Sep | Creekhouse Ladies Open | Sweden | Maja Stark (1) | 8 | €400,000 | New event[6] | |
9–11 Sep | VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open | Switzerland | Atthaya Thitikul (4) | 6 | €200,000 | ||
16–18 Sep | Lacoste Ladies Open de France | France | Céline Boutier (3) | 6 | €300,000 | ||
Hero Women's Indian Open | India | align=center colspan="2" | Tournament cancelled | ||||
1–3 Oct | Estrella Damm Ladies Open | Spain | Maja Stark (2) | 6 | €250,000 | ||
Magical Kenya Ladies Open | Kenya | align=center colspan="2" | Tournament cancelled | ||||
14–16 Oct | United States | Charley Hull (3) | 19.5 | $200,000 | Aramco Team Series Individual event | ||
Lalla Meryem Cup | Morocco | align=center colspan="2" | Tournament cancelled | ||||
27–29 Oct | Dubai Moonlight Classic | United Arab Emirates | Bronte Law (1) | 15 | €260,000 | ||
4–7 Nov | Saudi Arabia | Lydia Ko (6) | 18.5 | $1,000,000 | |||
10–12 Nov | Aramco Team Series – Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | Pia Babnik (2) | 16.5 | $200,000 | Aramco Team Series Individual event | |
Ladies European Thailand Championship | Thailand | align=center colspan="2" | Tournament cancelled | ||||
25–28 Nov | Andalucia Costa Del Sol Open De España | Spain | Carlota Ciganda (5) | 12 | €600,000 |
The following event appears on the schedule, but does not carry ranking points.
Date | Tournament | Host country | Winner(s) | WWGR points | Purse ($) | Notes | |
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8–10 Jul | Aramco Team Series – London | England | Olivia Cowan Sarina Schmidt Diksha Dagar Andrew Kelsey (a) | – | 800,000 | Aramco Team Series Team event | |
5–7 Aug | Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande | Spain | Ashleigh Buhai Stacy Bregman Hayley Davis Ignacio Morillo (a) | – | 800,000 | Aramco Team Series Team event | |
5–8 Aug | Olympic women's golf competition | Japan | Nelly Korda | 37 | |||
4–6 Sep | Solheim Cup | United States | Europe | – | – | [7] | |
14–16 Oct | United States | Jessica Korda Karolin Lampert Lina Boqvist Alexandra O'Laughlin (a) | – | 800,000 | Aramco Team Series Team event | ||
10–12 Nov | Saudi Arabia | Emily Kristine Pedersen Hannah Burke Krista Bakker Ahmed Al Subaey (a) | – | 800,000 | Aramco Team Series Team event |
Rank | Player | Country | Points | |
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1 | 3,592 | |||
2 | 1,954 | |||
3 | 1,765 | |||
4 | 1,657 | |||
5 | 1,587 | |||
6 | 1,516 | |||
7 | 1,305 | |||
8 | 1,210 | |||
9 | 1,179 | |||
10 | 1,156 |