2025 U.S. Senior Women's Open

The 2025 U.S. Senior Women's Open takes place August 21–24 at San Diego Country Club in Chula Vista, California, and is the seventh U.S. Senior Women's Open. It is a professional golf tournament organized by the United States Golf Association (USGA), open to women over 50 years of age and one of two yearly senior women's major golf championships.^[1]

Defending champion from the 2024 tournament is Leta Lindley.^[2][3]

The club was founded in 1897. After the club moved to Chula Vista in 1920, architect William Watson designed the first all-grass 18-hole golf course in Southern California.^[4]

The club has previously hosted the 1964 U.S. Women's Open (won by Mickey Wright at her home club), the 1993 U.S. Women's Amateur (won by Jill McGill, who is exempt for the 2025 U.S. Senior Women's Open) and the 2017 U.S. Women's Amateur (won by Sophia Schubert).^[1]

The length is different between each round. Approximate length is shown.^[5]

The walking-only tournament was played over 72 holes of stroke play, with the top 50 and ties making the 36-hole cut.

The championship is open to any professional or amateur golfer who is 50 years of age or over as of August 24, 2025, however restricted by a certain handicap level.

Players enter the competition, either exempt through some of several exemption categories or through sectional qualifying at 16 different sites around the United States during 2025.^[a][6]

Below are listed exemption categories and players exempt, if any, under those. Each exemption category requires players to have reached their 50th birthday on or before August 21, 2025.

1. Former winners of the U.S. Senior Women's Open (10-year exemption)

• Laura Davies, Helen Alfredsson, Annika Sörenstam, Jill McGill, Trish Johnson, Leta Lindley

2. From the 2024 U.S. Senior Women’s Open, the 20 lowest scorers and anyone tying for 20th place

• Kaori Yamamoto, Nobuko Kizawa, Mikino Kubo, Juli Inkster, Christa Johnson, Junko Omote, Corina Kelepouris, Stefania Croce, Maggie Will, Pat Hurst, Moira Dunn-Bohls, Liselotte Neumann, Yuko Saito, Brandie Burton, Lisa Grimes, Michele Redman, Maria McBride, Suzy Green Roebuck, Catrin Nilsmark

3. From the 2024 U.S. Senior Women's Open, the amateur(s) returning the lowest 72-hole score

4. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open (10-year exemption)

• Amy Alcott, Jerilyn Britz, Jane Geddes, JoAnne Gunderson Carner, Hollis Stacy, Jan Stephenson, Karrie Webb

5. From the 2024 and 2025 U.S. Women's Open, any player returning a 72-hole score

6. Any professional or applicant for reinstatement who has won the U.S. Women's Amateur (three-year exemption)

• Silvia Cavalleri, Wendy Ward, Vickie Goetze-Ackerman

7. Winners of the U.S. Women's Amateur (must be an amateur; five-year exemption)

8. Winners of the 2023 and 2024 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur and the 2024 runner-up (must be an amateur)

• Sarah Gallagher, Nadene Gole (a), Shelly Stouffer (a)

9. Winners of the 2023 and 2024 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur (must be an amateur)

10. Playing members of the two most current United States and Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup Teams, and the two most current United States Women's World Amateur teams (must be an amateur)

11. Winners of the LPGA Legends Championship, formerly known as the LPGA Senior Championship, from 2019-2025, and the runners-up from 2023-2025

12. From the 2025 LPGA Legends Championship, the 10 lowest scorers and anyone tying for 10th place

• Heather Bowie Young, Laura Diaz, Becky Morgan

13. From the final 2024 Legends of the LPGA Performance Points list, the top 30 point leaders and ties

• Jean Bartholomew, Clarissa Childs, Jamie Fischer, Jackie Gallagher-Smith, Tammie Green, Nicole Jeray, Cathy Johnston-Forbes, Patricia Meunier-Lebouc

14. Winners of the Legends of the LPGA co-sponsored events, with a minimum of 36 holes, excluding team events, whose victories are considered official, in 2023 and 2024 and during the current calendar year to the initiation of the current year's U.S. Senior Women's Open Championship

15. Winners of the 2019-2024 LPGA Professionals Championship (Championship Division), and the five lowest scorers and ties from the 2024 Championship

16. From the 2024 LPGA Professionals Championship (Senior Division), the three lowest scorers and ties

• Christy Longfield

17. Winners of the 2024 R&A Women's Senior Amateur and 2024 Canadian Women's Senior Amateur Championships (must be an amateur)

18. Winners of the following events when deemed a major by the LPGA Tour: The Chevron Championship (1983-present); Evian Championship (2013-present); AIG Women's British Open (1979-present); KPMG Women's PGA Championship (1955-present); Titleholders Championship (1946-1966 and 1972); and/or Western Open (1930-1967) (10-year exemption)

• Donna Andrews, Catriona Matthew

19. From the LPGA Tour Career Official Money List, the top 10 players who are not otherwise exempt as of February 12, 2025

• Rosie Jones, Sophie Gustafson, Carin Hjalmarsson, Janice Moodie, Danielle Ammaccapane, Michelle McGann

20. Winners of LPGA Tour co-sponsored events, whose victories are considered official, from 2019-2024 and during the current calendar year to the initiation of the 2025 U.S. Senior Women's Open Championship

21. Playing members of the United States and European Solheim Cup Teams within the last 10 years (2015-2024)

• Gwladys Nocera

22. From the 2024 final Ladies European Tour and Japan LPGA Tour career money lists, the top five money leaders

23. Special exemptions as selected by the USGA

Additional players qualified through sectional qualifying tournaments, taking place June 18 – July 28, 2025, at 16 different sites across the United States.^[7]

• Official website