Maja Stark

Maja Stark reigned supreme at Erin Hills to win the 2025 US Women’s Open, her first major victory.

The 25-year-old finished on a 7-under-par total of 281, two strokes clear of world number one Nelly Korda and Japan’s Rio Takeda.

This landmark victory in Wisconsin was her ninth as a professional.

One of the breakout stars of 2022, along with fellow Swede Linn Grant, Maja earned LPGA status with a win in the co-sanctioned ISPS Handa World Invitational that August.

The former Junior Solheim Cup player rose to sixth on the women’s amateur world rankings, which earned her an invitation to the 2020 US Women's Open, where she finished T13. In many years that would have given her low amateur honours, but American Kaitlyn Papp tied for ninth.

Maja had still to turn professional when she returned to the event in June 2021 and with a round to go shared ninth place before slipping back to 16th.

She finished T41 on her AIG Women's Open debut in 2022, T50 at Walton Heath in 2023 and T71 at St Andrews in 2024.