The KPMG Women’s Irish Open will move to a new date in 2023.
After a 10 year absence from these shores, the Ladies European Tour returned last September when the inaugural KPMG Women’s Irish Open was staged at Dromoland Castle’s championship course.
More than 24,000 people, a record for a women’s golf event in Ireland, attended the tournament.
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The 2023 staging will again take place at the county Clare venue, which had a €2 million upgrade in advance of the 2022 tournament, but will do so three weeks earlier - from August 31 to September 3 - and Leona Maguire will be back to compete.
The new placing on the LET calendar also means the Irish Women's Open will take place a week before the men's open at the K Club.
This year's event was won by Klara Spilková from the Czech Republic, claiming her first LET Tour victory in over five years, overcoming Ursula Wikström and Nicole Broch Estrup in a dramatic playoff.
Having come agonisingly close to securing a spot in that playoff, Irish golfer and KPMG ambassador, Maguire will once again tee it up at Dromoland Castle as she seeks to become the first Irish winner of the event.
The Cavan native missed out on the playoff by a single shot despite playing incredible golf over the weekend, including the lowest score of the third round, a magnificent 65 (-7) which saw her charge up the leaderboard to sit just two shots off the pace going into the final round on Sunday. A final round 68 (-4) secured Maguire a share of fourth place.
Europe’s top pros will once compete for the €400,000 prize fund. The KPMG Women’s Irish Open will also begin an exciting two weeks of professional golf on the island of Ireland with the Men’s Irish Open taking place in The K Club the following week.
Tickets for the 2023 KPMG Women’s Irish Open will go on sale in January.
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