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Women's PGA Championship

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Inaugurated in 1955 as the LPGA Championship. The first year consisted of three rounds of stroke play followed by 18 holes of match-play to decide the winner, which was Beverly Hanson (USA) who beat fellow American Louise Suggs 4 & 3. All subsequent Championships have been stroke play over four scheduled rounds of 18 holes.

The Championship was renamed the Women’s PGA Championship after 2014 and it has also carried the name of the event’s sponsor, British accounting firm KPMG, with it now being styled as the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.

The PGA has been one of the women’s Majors since inception and like the other Majors held in the USA (US Open and Chevron Championship), the PGA Championship is not part of the Women’s European Tour

NOTE: All the information below is correct up to an including the 2025 event and unless otherwise stated, all golfers are from the USA.

Most Wins

Wins	Golfer (Country)	Years
4	Mickey Wright	1958, 1960-61, 1963
3	Kathy Whitworth	1967, 1971, 1975
3	Nancy Lopez	1978, 1985, 1989
3	Annika Sörenstam (Sweden)	2003-05
3	Se Ri Pak (South Korea)	1998, 2002, 2006
3	Inbee Park (South Korea)	2013-15
2	Betsy Rawls	1959, 1969
2	Mary Mills	1964, 1973
2	Sandra Haynie	1965, 1974
2	Donna Caponi	1979, 1981
2	Patty Sheehan	1983-84
2	Laura Davies (England)	1994, 1996
2	Juli Inkster	1999-2000
2	Yani Tseng (Taiwan)	2008, 2011

Sörenstam and Inbee Park are the only women to win the title three years in succession.

Lowest 72-Hole Totals

Total	Golfer (Country)	Year
266	Sei Young Kim (South Korea)	2020
267	Betsy King	1992
268	Juli Inkster	1999
269	Cristie Kerr	2010
269	Yani Tseng (Taiwan)	2011
270	Karrie Webb (Australia)	2001
271	Annika Sörenstam (Sweden)	2004
271	Danielle Kang	2017
271	Inbee Park (South Korea) ‡	2020

‡ Runner-up

The lowest single round in the PGA Championship is 63 and has been achieved by five golfers: Patty Sheehan † 1984, Meg Mallon 1999, Kelly Shon 2017, Sei Young Kim † (South Korea) 2020, and Nelly Korda † 2021

† Indicates went on to win the title.

Biggest Winning Margin

Margin	Golfer	Year
12	Cristie Kerr	2010
11	Betsy King	1992
10	Patty Sheehan	1984
10	Yani Tseng (Taiwan)	2011
9	Mickey Wright	1961
8	Nancy Lopez	1985
6	Mickey Wright	1958
6	Kathy Ahern	1972
6	Nancy Lopez	1978

Oldest Winners

Age *	Golfer	Year
41 years 84 days	Betsy Rawls	1969
40 years 1 day	Juli Inkster	2000
39 years 23 days	Christa Johnson	1997
36 years 278 days	Betsy King	1992
36 years 229 days	Patty Sheehan	1993
36 years 136 days	Donna Caponi	1979

* Age at time of last win.

Youngest Winners

Age *	Golfer (Country)	Year
18 years 276 days	Brooke Henderson (Canada)	2016
19 years 137 days	Yani Tseng (Taiwan)	2008
20 years 19 days	Sandra Post (Canada)	1968
20 years 231 days	Se Ri Pak (South Korea)	1998
20 years 270 days	Yin Ruoning (China)	2023

* Age at time of first win

Countries Providing the Most winners

Total	Country	First Win	Last Win
42	USA	1955	2021
10	South Korea	1998	2024
4	Sweden	2003	2009
4	Australia	1982	2025
2	England	1994	1996
2	Taiwan	2008	2011
2	Canada	1968	2016
2	China	2012	2023
1	Japan	1977	1977
1	Norway	2007	2007
1	South Africa	1980	1980

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