The curtain fell on the 2025 Women’s Open with a feeling that Wales’ second golf major will come around considerably faster than the first.
The men’s Open Championship has been going since 1860, while the Women’s Open was first played in 1976.
The tournaments have travelled around the UK, yet it was not until last week that either came to Wales.
Japan’s Miyu Yamashita emerged victorious at Royal Porthcawl, holding off Charley Hull’s final-day challenge to claim the biggest win of her career.
A first major success for English star Hull, who drew the biggest galleries of the week, would have made greater headlines on these shores.
But regardless of who triumphed, Wales can reflect with pride on its biggest ever female sports event.
“Wales and Porthcawl have been fantastic,” said Mark Darbon, chief executive of golf’s governing body the R&A. “It’s been a brilliant week.”