No Ladies Open at The Oxfordshire

The Oxfordshire golf course near Thame (Getty Images)

The Oxfordshire will not stage the Ladies English Open again next year.

The Thame-based golf course staged the Ladies Open this July after it had been staged for the previous four years at Chart Hills in Kent.

But Paul Gibbons, chairman of the Leaderboard Group, The Oxfordshire's parent company, has revealed that they have ended their association.

"I think we can hold our heads high with all the work we have done to help promote women's golf," said Gibbons.

The Oxfordshire earned its chief notoriety as a stage for big golf events when it hosted the Benson and Hedges International Open for four years between 1996 and 1999.

The Oxfordshire previously hosted the Ladies English Open in 1996, the same year that it staged the B&H for the first time and also the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf.