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Belgian Ladies Open

Professional golf tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ18325719
Source-derived summary

The Belgian Ladies Open is a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour held in Belgium.

History

The tournament was played annually 1985–1995. It was known as the Godiva Ladies European Masters 1988–1989 and the BMW European Masters 1990–1994. The tournament was slated to return to the LET schedule in 2020 but was postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After a one year hiatus the tournament returned in 2025, now held at Hulencourt Golf Club near Brussels.

Between 2014 and 2022 Belgium also hosted the Belgian LETAS Trophy on the LET's development tour.

Editorial summary

“Belgian Ladies Open” enters the record as professional golf tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Belgian, Ladies and Professional can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 1995, 1988, 1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Belgian, Ladies and Professional.
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“Belgian Ladies Open” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Belgian, Ladies and Professional provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18325719. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985, 1995, 1988 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from Belgian Ladies Open” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.