Only one women's tournament offers a larger first-place prize, the CME Group Tour Championship. In 2019, winner Sei Young Kim received $1.5 million from an overall purse of $5 million.

Kay Cockerill, a native of Northern California and, at the time, the reigning U.S. Women’s Amateur champion, attended her first U.S. Open in 1987, when she was a 22-year-old spectator watching ...

With women's golf at a crossroads - and needing to build its profile - this week's US Open comes at a critical time, as BBC Sport's Iain Carter explains.

Among the current majors, the US Women's Open began in 1946, with the Women's PGA Championship starting in 1955. The Chevron Championship became a major in 1983.

Preview The 2021 U.S. Women's Open will feature the current No. 1 player in the world (Jin Young Ko), the defending champion (A Lim Kim) and a potential comeback story in the making (Wie West).