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Golf · Level 9: Master · Sub-level 9.5

Women's Golf History

4 tests · 40 facts · updated 13 October 2026 · markdown

Women's golf from the first clubs to today: early pioneers, the LPGA's stars, the Annika years, and the modern game.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Early women's golfTake a test

  1. Its course is the 'Himalayas'.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  2. It ran women's amateur golf in Britain and Ireland.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  3. She won the first three.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  4. Raising the club above the shoulder was thought unladylike.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  5. At Meadow Brook, New York.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  6. Between 1922 and 1935.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  7. She won four British Ladies' titles.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  8. 1867, 1893 and 1895.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · applied

  9. 1890s, 1920s and 1960s.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · applied

  10. Its humps and hollows give it the name.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · applied

Test 2The LPGA's early starsTake a test

  1. The most by any player on one major tour.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  2. Still the single-season record.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  3. She won the rookie and player of the year awards.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  4. The oldest women's professional major.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  5. It was played at match play that year.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  6. Including titles from before the LPGA.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  7. Both won theirs in the 1950s and 1960s.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  8. 88, 82, 72 and 48.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  9. 1946, 1963 and 1978.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  10. Eighty-eight wins.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · applied

Test 3Annika and the 2000sTake a test

  1. At the Standard Register Ping in Phoenix.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  2. The first woman in a PGA Tour event since 1945.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  3. Along with 72 LPGA titles.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  4. She held the top spot for 158 weeks.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  5. Now the Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  6. Aged 26.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  7. After a play-off of 20 holes.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  8. 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2006.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · applied

  9. 15, 10, 7 and 2.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  10. Thirteen birdies in the round.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · applied

Test 4The modern women's gameTake a test

  1. Many cited Se Ri Pak as their inspiration.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  2. The youngest of either sex.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  3. The Women's British Open at Woburn.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  4. It began in 1976.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  5. She later won Olympic gold in 2016.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  6. Bringing men's and women's governance together.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  7. Lorena Ochoa won that Women's British Open.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  8. 2001, 2013, 2015 and 2017.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · recall

  9. 1946, 1976 and 1994.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · applied

  10. A major since 2013.

    Source: LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A) · applied

Sources

Golf histories and museum records (R&A, USGA, World Golf Hall of Fame), Open and major championship records, PGA Tour and LPGA records; only settled facts used as keys; original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • LPGA and women's golf records (LPGA, LGU, R&A)40