The HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship was an LPGA Tour golf tournament that was played from 2005 through 2007. It was first played from June 30 to July 3, 2005 at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, New Jersey. In 2007 the event moved to the Wykagyl Country Club in New Rochelle, New York.
In 2008, HSBC discontinued the event and began sponsoring a new event in Singapore: the HSBC Women's Champions, a stroke play event.
The title sponsor, HSBC, is a large banking group based in London, England.
In 2007 the 64 woman field was selected as follows:
The closest equivalent event in men's professional golf is the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, which is also a 64-player 18-hole match play event. HSBC also sponsors the HSBC World Match Play Championship on the PGA Tour, a longer established sixteen player thirty-six hole event tournament played in the United Kingdom.
The tournament was last played from July 19 through July 22, 2007.
Year | Champion | Country | Score | Runner-up | Tournament Location |
Purse | Winner's Share |
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2007 | Seon Hwa Lee | South Korea | 2&1 | Ai Miyazato | Wykagyl Country Club | $2,000,000 | $500,000 |
2006 | Brittany Lincicome | United States | 3&2 | Juli Inkster | Hamilton Farm Golf Club | $2,000,000 | $500,000 |
2005 | Marisa Baena | Colombia | 1 up | Meena Lee | Hamilton Farm Golf Club | $2,000,000 | $500,000 |