Island Resort Championship

2023 Champion

Tsai Cheng Tseng

Score: 66 – 70 – 65 = 201 (-15)

Bio:

Tsai Cheng Tseng (Tainan City, Chinese Taipei) is the winner of the 2019 Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown, 2020 ICON Invitational, and 2023 SAMPO Ladies Open. The 2023 Island Resort Championship was her first career win, in the same year she turned professional.

2022 Champion

Ssu-Chia Cheng

Score: 68 – 64 – 67 – 0 = 199 (-17)

Bio:

Ssu-Chia Cheng (Taipei, Chinese Taipei) won her first Ladies European Tour event as an amateur at 17. The 2022 Island Resort Championship was her second career win since she turned professional in 2016.

2021 Champion

Morgane Metraux

Score: 69 – 63 – 67 = 199 (-17)

Bio:

Metraux (Lausanne, Switzerland) attended Florida State University and concluded her career there with the third lowest stroke average (73.18) in school history. The 2021 Island Resort Championship was her first career win since she turned professional in May 2018.

2019 Champion

Daniela Iacobelli

Score: 69 – 71 – 65 – 0 = 205 (-11)

Bio:

Iacobelli is a native of Melbourne, Florida and was inducted into the Florida Institute of Technology Hall of Fame in 2014. Entering the 2019 season with a total of 104 career starts with two wins and 20 top-10 performances since her rookie year in 2010.

2018 Champion

Ruixin Liu

Score:

68 – 70 – 69 – 0 = 207 (-9)

Bio:

Entering her second year on the Symetra Tour, Liu has the goal of getting into the top-10, just like her good friend and fellow-China native Yu Liu, one of the 2017 Symetra Tour graduates.

2017 Champion

Emma Talley 

Score:

66 – 69 = 135 (-9)

Bio:

Emma Talley is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour. While playing as an amateur at the University of Alabama, she won the 2013 U.S. Women’s Amateur by defeating Yueer Cindy Feng in the 36-hole final match, 2 & 1.

2016 Champion

S. Santiwiwatthanaphong 

Score:

70 – 71 – 69 – 0 = 210 (-6)

Bio:

The Thailand native won the Epson Tour Championship in October and ended her season by earning conditional LPGA Tour status for the 2016 season.

2015 Champion

Dani Holmqvist 

Score:

67 – 69 – 70 – 0 = 206 (-10)

Bio:

Holmqvist first received international headlines in 2013 when what tournament officials believe was a redback spider, relative of the famed black widow, nipped her leg during a qualification round for the Women’s Australian Open at Royal Canberra Golf Club. Holmqvist swatted the spider away, used a golf tee to pierce her skin and squeeze out the venom, and finished her round.

2014 Champion

Molly Aronsson 

Score:

69 – 74 – 72 – 0 = 215 (-1)

Bio:

Aronsson started playing golf at the age of eight years old. When she is not on the course she enjoys hockey, soccer, tennis, snowboarding, running/working out, shopping, traveling and hanging out with family and friends.

2013 Champion

Kim Kaufman 

Score:

71 – 74 – 68 – 0 = 213 (-3)

Bio:

Started playing golf at the age of four. Credits her dad as the individual that has had the most influence on her career. Hobbies include cooking, going to concerts, spending time with friends and family, attending other sporting events and everything Texas Tech.

2012 Champion

Leah Wigger 

Score:

73 – 66 – 70 – 0 = 209 (-7)

Bio:

2011 Champion

Stephanie Kim 

Score:

67 – 72 – 70 – 0 = 209 (-7)

Bio:

Two-time Big Sky Player of the Year and All-Big Sky first-teamselection. Holds top two single-season scoring marks.