Sei Young Kim celebrates wire-to-wire victory at the BMW Ladies Championship.

+++ Sei Young Kim from South Korea secures home victory at the BMW Ladies Championship +++ First title for the 32-year-old major champion in five years +++ Lucy Li (USA) wins all-electric BMW i7 eDrive50 with a hole-in-one +++ 66,000 fans attend tournament week at Pine Beach Golf Links +++

Gwangju/Munich . It was a final to delight the 30,000 spectators who came to Pine Beach Golf Links on Sunday as local hero Sei Young Kim (264 strokes, -24) won the BMW Ladies Championship 2025 convincingly with a four-stroke lead over Japan’s Nasa Hataoka. This marked the first victory by a South Korean player at the only LPGA Tour event in South Korea since Jin Young Ko’s triumph in 2021. Kim started the tournament with an impressive opening round (62 strokes, -10) and never looked back.

For the 32-year-old, this was her 13th title on the LPGA Tour and her first since winning the Women’s PGA Championship in 2020. Behind Kim and Hataoka, Celine Boutier from France and South Korea’s A Lim Kim (both -18) shared third place, while defending champion Hannah Green (AUS) and Yealimi Noh (USA, both -17) tied for fifth.

A highlight of the BMW Ladies Championship, which was attended by a total of 66,000 golf fans, came in the first round when Lucy Li scored a hole-in-one on the 13th hole (Par 3). For the spectacular shot from a distance of 155 yards using a 7-iron, the American was rewarded with an all-electric BMW i7 eDrive50. Li is the fourth player to earn a Hole-in-One Award at the BMW Ladies Championship, following Kristen Gillman (USA, 2019), Na Yeon Choi (KOR, 2022), and Ariya Jutanugarn (THA, 2022).

Next year, the BMW Ladies Championship will once again be held at Pine Beach Golf Links near Gwangju in the southwest of the country. To showcase the world-class golfers to fans nationwide, the tournament, organised by BMW Korea since 2019, regularly changes its venue.