2005 Ladies European Tour

The 2005 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from January through December 2005. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET).

2005 Ladies European Tour season

Duration	February 2005 (2005-02) – September 2005 (2005-09)
Number of official events	21
Order of Merit	Iben Tinning
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Tournaments

The table below shows the 2005 schedule.^[1] The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the Ladies European Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for members of the tour.

Date	Name	Venue	Location	Winner	Prize fund	Prize fund (€)	Notes
5 Feb	Samsung Ladies Masters	Laguna National Golf & Country Club	Singapore	Song Bo-bae (n/a)	$200,000	150,590	Team event co-sanctioned by the five main women's tours Unofficial prize money
13 Feb	Women's World Cup of Golf	The Links, Fancourt Resort	South Africa	Japan Ai Miyazato & Rui Kitada	$1,000,000	752,950	Team event Unofficial prize money
27 Feb	ANZ Ladies Masters	RACV Royal Pines Resort	Australia	Karrie Webb (7)	$800,000	499,216	Co-sanctioned by the ALPG Tour
3 Apr	Thailand Ladies Open	Alpine Golf & Sports Club	Thailand	Shani Waugh (3)	$330,000	248,474
10 Apr	Tenerife Ladies Open	Costa Adeje GC	Spain	Ludivine Kreutz (2)	242,000	€242,000
15 May	Open de España Femenino	Panorámica Club de Golf	Spain	Iben Tinning (3)	€275,000	275,000
29 May	Siemens Austrian Ladies Open	Golfclub Fohrenwald	Austria	Federica Piovano (1)	€250,000	250,000
5 Jun	BMW Ladies Italian Open	Parco de' Medici	Italy	Iben Tinning (4)	€300,000	300,000
12 Jun	Vediorbis Open de France Dames	Golf d'Arras	France	Veronica Zorzi (1)	€300,000	300,000
26 Jun	Algarve Ladies Open of Portugal	Gramacho Pestana Golf Resort	Portugal	Cecilia Ekelundh (2)	€300,000	300,000
10 Jul	Ladies English Open	Chart Hills Golf Club, Biddenden	England	Maria Hjorth (2)	€165,000	165,000
16 Jul	Ladies Central European Open	Old Lake Golf Club	Hungary	Ludivine Kreutz (3)	€165,000	165,000
23 Jul	Evian Masters	Evian Resort Golf Club	France	Paula Creamer (n/a)	$2,500,000	1,882,375	Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour
31 Jul	Weetabix Women's British Open	Royal Birkdale Golf Club	England	Jang Jeong (n/a)	$1,800,000	1,499,571	Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour
7 Aug	Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika	Barsebäck Golf & Country Club	Sweden	Annika Sörenstam (13)	€495,000	495,000
14 Aug	Wales Ladies Championship of Europe	Machynys Peninsula Golf Country Club, Llanelli	Wales	Kirsty Taylor (1)	£350,000	510,650
28 Aug	Finnair Masters	Helsinki Golf Club	Finland	Lisa Holm Sorensen (1)	€200,000	200,000
4 Sep	Nykredit Masters	Kokkedal Golfklub	Denmark	Iben Tinning (5)	€200,000	200,000
11 Sep	Solheim Cup	Crooked Stick Golf Club	United States	United States	Team event; no prize money		Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour
18 Sep	KLM Ladies Open	Kennemer Golf & Country Club	Netherlands	Virginie Lagoutte (1)	€165,000	165,000
24 Sep	Catalonia Ladies Masters	Golf Platja de Pals	Spain	Karine Icher (5)	€190,000	190,000

Major championships in bold.

Order of Merit rankings

Rank	Player	Earnings (€)	Tournaments
1	Iben Tinning	204,672	15
n/a	Annika Sörenstam	180,639	3
n/a	Sophie Gustafson	168,825	3
2	Gwladys Nocera	164,739	18
3	Maria Hjorth	158,524	8
4	Cecilia Ekelundh	154,893	19
5	Veronica Zorzi	154,184	14
6	Ludivine Kreutz	147,211	18
7	Kirsty Taylor	129,964	17
8	Laura Davies	124,661	7
9	Karine Icher	123,790	7
n/a	Carin Koch	121,105	3
n/a	Liselotte Neumann	119,281	3
10	Trish Johnson	116,190	14

Note: Participation in a minimum of six tournaments was required to be counted for the Order of Merit.

Sources:^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

See also

• 2005 LPGA Tour
• 2005 in golf