Best Women Golfers Yet To Win A Major
Some hugely talented female golfers have yet to get over the line in one of the five Majors. Here are 10 still looking to put that right
There are several ways to measure a golfer's standing in the game, including the highest world ranking and the number of events won.
However, achievements don’t come much bigger than winning a Major, and in the women’s game, the biggest stars have five opportunities to do that each year.
Since 2013, the Chevron Championship, US Women’s Open, KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Amundi Evian Championship and AIG Women’s Open are the big five events of women’s golf.
There have been high-profile winners since the five-Major era began with the elevation of the Amundi Evian Championship. For some world-class talent, though, a Major title remains elusive.
Some are now approaching the twilight of their careers, but for others, many more opportunities remain to claim one or more of the coveted titles.
Here are 10 of the biggest names yet to win a women’s Major.
Jeeno Thitikul
Jeeno Thitikul is widely expected to win a Major sooner rather than later
Still aged just 23, the Thai star has already achieved more in the game than most players ever will.
That includes two CME Group Tour Championship titles and spells at the top of the world rankings.
Despite several close calls, though, she is yet to win a Major.
Ahead of the 2026 AIG Women's Open, the closest she had come was runner-up at the 2025 Amundi Evian Championship.
With top-10s in all five women's Majors, it is surely a matter of time until Thitikul wins one, but until that day comes, it will remain an obvious omission from an otherwise glittering list of achievements.
Charley Hull
Charley Hull is one of the most talented players yet to win a Major
There are few players with more ability than Charley Hull, but does she win often enough given her huge talent?
Some would argue that the nine wins Hull has in her 13-year professional career are a few short of the number she should have at this stage.
However, it's not for the want of trying, particularly in Majors, where she has five runner-up finishes without a title.
The latest of those came at the 2026 US Women's Open, where Nelly Korda beat her by one.
That suggested she still has plenty of appetite to keep pushing, and if she does eventually win a Major, she will certainly have earned it.
Nasa Hataoka
Nasa Hataoka has had several close calls at Majors
Like Hull, Nasa Hataoka has come agonizingly close to winning a Major without managing it, including two runner-up finishes.
The most recent of those came in the 2021 US Women's Open, when she lost in a playoff to Yuka Saso.
A T6 at the 2026 US Women's Open aside, Hataoka's Major form hasn't been as strong in recent years, although at the age of 27, she should still have plenty of opportunities to add one of the big titles to her list of achievements.
Rose Zhang
Rose Zhang is one of the game's brightest talents
After a record-setting amateur career, Rose Zhang arrived on the professional scene with some suggestions that she could be the women's game's equivalent of Tiger Woods.
A win in her first professional start, at the 2023 Mizuho Americas Open, only raised expectations, and she followed that up with a second LPGA Tour title at the 2024 Cognizant Founders Cup.
Her form has dipped more recently, but Zhang remains one of the most talented young players in women's golf, with plenty of years in the game to realize her huge potential with a Major title.
Angel Yin
Angel Yin has finished runner-up in Majors twice
It's not often that a Major season goes by without Angel Yin featuring in the top 10 at least once, but despite some remarkable consistency at the events, she hasn't won a title.
The two-time LPGA Tour winner couldn't have got much closer on two occasions, when she was runner-up.
The first time was at the 2019 US Women's Open, when she finished two back of Jeongeun Lee6.
Four years later, she got even closer, taking Lilia Vu to a playoff at the Chevron Championship, missing out after finding the water on the first extra hole as Vu made a birdie.
Carlota Ciganda
Carlota Ciganda has many professional titles, but not a Major victory
Unlike Zhang, Carlota Ciganda is in the latter stages of her career, but the search for a maiden Major title continues.
The Spaniard, who turned professional in 2011, has come close on numerous occasions, recording top-10 finishes in all five Majors and placing third four times.
However, she is now 36, with the clock ticking on her chances of capping a memorable career with one of the biggest titles in the game.
Gaby Lopez
Gaby Lopez finished runner-up at the US Women's Open
The Mexican is a three-time LPGA Tour winner, but she is yet to get over the line in a Major.
Lopez has four top-10 finishes in the tournaments, including T2 at this year's US Women's Open.
On that occasion, she was left stranded with Hull as Nelly Korda claimed her fourth Major title, but she will surely have found encouragement from running her so close at Riviera Country Club.
Lauren Coughlin
Lauren Coughlin placed in the top-5 twice in 2024
Another three-time LPGA Tour winner still awaiting a Major title is Lauren Coughlin.
The American has rarely brought her best form to the big events, although she still has two top-five finishes in Majors, both of which came in 2024.
The highest of those was T3 at the Chevron Championship, where she led after the first round before missing out to Nelly Korda by three.
A placing of fourth followed at the Amundi Evian Championship later in the year, but she has not really got close since.
Linn Grant
Linn Grant has several Major top-10s, but not a title
Linn Grant turned professional around the same time as another talented Swede, her friend Maja Stark, in 2021.
However, while Stark claimed her maiden Major title in the 2025 US Women's Open, Grant is still searching for her first success in one of the big events.
She has top 10s in all of them except the Chevron Championship, but three missed cuts and a T61 at the Amundi Evian Championship in 2026 suggested she needed to get back on track.
Grant's best form at Majors could return at any time, and at 27, she will surely have ample opportunities to prove her credentials.
Leona Maguire
Leona Maguire has occasionally struggled in Majors
Former World No.1 amateur Leona Maguire has built an excellent professional career, including LPGA Tour wins and starring in the Solheim Cup, but she has yet to crack the code in the Majors.
Maguire's best finish came in 2022 with T4 at the AIG Women's Open, but that's one of just four top-10s in the big events.
The most recent came in 2025, when she placed T7 at the Amundi Evian Championship, but before the AIG Women's Open, her 2026 Major season had been disappointing.
She'll be hoping to bounce back sooner rather than later, beginning at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
Hye Jin Choi
Hye Jin Choi has come close to winning Majors
Choi has 12 LPGA of Korea Tour wins, and she has demonstrated that form in the Majors, too, with seven top-10s, three of which came in 2025.
Ahead of the 2026 AIG Women's Open, the South Korean's Major season wasn't quite as productive.
Still, considering her record, she'll surely feel she can find her best form sooner rather than later as she continues striving for her maiden Major title.
Megan Khang
Megan Khang has top-10s in all five Majors, but no victory
Another player with top-10 finishes in all five Majors is Megan Khang.
The closest the American has come to getting over the line is T3 at the 2023 KPMG Women's PGA Championship, but it is far from the only time she has been firmly in contention, only to come up short.
Overall, Khang has 11 top-10 finishes in a Major without lifting a trophy.
Khang also had to wait before winning her maiden LPGA Tour title, with victory finally coming in 2023 after 33 top 10s.
That will give her hope that, where it comes to a Major title, patience could be a virtue.
Lottie Woad
Lottie Woad has made a brilliant start to her professional career
Of all the players on this list, Lottie Woad is the least experienced, with the 22-year-old only turning pro in 2025.
She soon made her mark, though, winning the ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open in her first professional start.
By that point, she had already made an impression at Majors, winning low amateur honors with a T10 at the 2024 AIG Women's Open and T3 at the 2025 Amundi Evian Championship.
With four top-10 Major finishes in a little more than two years, it appears only a matter of time before she wins her maiden Major title.
Akie Awai
Akie Iwai has some impressive Major results
Akie Awai is a six-time winner on the LPGA of Japan Tour, while she also has an LPGA Tour title to her name. To add to her growing reputation, she has a solid record in Majors, too.
The Japanese star only made her Major debut in 2023, but she has placed in the top-10 three times, including third at the 2026 Amundi Evian Championship.
At the age of just 24, there is no hurry for Awai to win a Major, although the early signs indicate she will get there at some stage.
Chizzy Iwai
Chizzy Iwai finished T4 at the 2025 KPMG Women's PGA Championship
Like her twin sister Akie, Chizzy Iwai has multiple LPGA of Japan Tour titles and an LPGA Tour victory under her belt.
She hasn't made as big an impact as Akie in the events so far, but the 24-year-old has shown glimpses, including T4 at the 2025 KPMG Women's PGA Championship.
While we await either Iwai sister to get over the line at a Major, it seems likely that at least one of them will achieve the feat as their careers progress.
