It’s a rare achievement in golf – a major championship hole-in-one – but who has been lucky enough to get one at the US Women’s Open?
In total, there have been 32 hole-in-ones in the history of the longest-running women’s major golf tournament, with only three of those coming in the first 25 years of competition.
Amateur Martha Cowden was the first to achieve a hole-in-one in the tournament’s history. She achieved the feat on the 4th hole at Druids Hills in 1951. Since then, there have been aces at courses around the United States.
Two players have been lucky enough to have a pair of hole-in-ones at the US Women’s Open. Nancy Porter did so at Winged Foot in 1972 and Rolling Green in 1976. Lee Lopez got hers in back-to-back years – firstly at Lancaster in 2015, before doubling up at CordeValle in 2016.
Jennifer Kupcho had hit the most recent hole-in-one, with that coming at the 2021 US Women’s Open at The Olympic Club. However, on the opening day of the 2024 competition, Sophia Popov made an ace at the par 3 8th hole, the 32nd ace in US Women’s Open history.
There have been three hole-in-ones in a single US Women’s Open on three occasions – Cedar Ridge in 1983, Blackwolf Run in 1998 and Champions GC in 2020.

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Who has had a US Women’s Open hole-in-one?
1951 – Martha Cowden (a) – Druids Hills
1959 – Patty Berg – Churchill Valley
1969 – Gerda Whalen – Scenic Hills
1972 – Nancy Porter (a) – Winged Foot
1976 – Nancy Porter (a) – Rolling Green
1981 – Amy Geithner (a) – La Grange
1981 – Julie Stanger – La Grange
1983 – Pat Bradley – Cedar Ridge
1983 – Susan Fromuth – Cedar Ridge
1983 – Jane Lock – Cedar Ridge
1984 – Joan Ellis (a) – Salem
1986 – Sarah Dekraay (a) – NCR
1988 – Kristi Albers – Baltimore
1991 – Susan Sanders – Colonial
1997 – Susie Redman – Pumpkin Ridge
1998 – Helen Alfredsson – Blackwolf Run
1998 – Clarissa Childs – Blackwolf Run
1998 – Brandie Burton – Blackwolf Run
2003 – Tracy Hanson – Pumpkin Ridge
2008 – Patricia Meunier-Lebouc – Interlachen
2010 – Sun Gyoung Park (a) – Oakmont
2014 – Giulia Sergas – Pinehurst No 2
2015 – Lee Lopez – Lancaster
2016 – Hee Young Park – CordeValle
2016 – Lee Lopez – CordeValle
2017 – Jacqui Concolino – Trump National
2018 – Catriona Matthew – Shoal Creek
2019 – Lydia Ko – Charleston
2020 – Yu Jin Sung – Champions
2020 – Amy Olson – Champions
2020 – Chella Choi – Champions
2021 – Jennifer Kupcho – The Olympic Club
2024 – Sophia Popov – Lancaster
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