Maja Stark

Sweden · born December 10, 1999, Abbekås, Skåne, Sweden

1major championship, LPGA count

U.S. Women's Open1 win
Chevron Championship1 2nd

Summary

First major 2025 U.S. Women's Open
Runner-up in majors 1 time

Wins

2025 U.S. Women's Open Erin Hills · 281 (-7) · by 2 strokes from Nelly Korda and Rio Takeda

Near misses

2024 The Chevron Championship runner-up to Nelly Korda

Rivals

Beat her

Next in the chain: Nelly Korda's rivals →

Moments

2025 U.S. Women's Open Midway through the final round a two-stroke swing decided it: Stark holed a 14-foot birdie on No. 11 almost simultaneously with Nelly Korda's three-putt bogey (a missed 5-footer) on No. 13, putting Stark three clear.
2025 U.S. Women's Open Stark two-putt birdied the par-5 14th and then two-putted from 50 feet for a gutsy par, protecting her lead over the final holes before taking bogeys on 17 and 18.

Results by championship

Best day

2025 U.S. Women's Open

Erin Hills, Erin, WI · 281 (-7) · by 2 strokes from Nelly Korda and Rio Takeda

Midway through the final round a two-stroke swing decided it: Stark holed a 14-foot birdie on No. 11 almost simultaneously with Nelly Korda's three-putt bogey (a missed 5-footer) on No. 13, putting Stark three clear.

Stark two-putt birdied the par-5 14th and then two-putted from 50 feet for a gutsy par, protecting her lead over the final holes before taking bogeys on 17 and 18.

Chosen by rule: her widest winning margin in a major. Year page: 2025.

Career line, 2024–2025

U.S. Women's Open

2025 U.S. Women's Open: won

Chevron Championship

2024 Chevron Championship: runner-up to Nelly Korda

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Major win
Runner-up

Maja Stark was born on December 10, 1999, in Abbekås, Skåne, Sweden. Stark won one major championship by the LPGA's official count: the 2025 U.S. Women's Open.

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The record

Wins in the majors (1)

Count and list are the LPGA official major-championship record as given in our U.S. Women's Open champions table.

2025 U.S. Women's Open Erin Hills, Erin, WI · 281 (-7) · by 2 strokes from Nelly Korda and Rio Takeda

Near misses

2024 The Chevron Championship runner-up to Nelly Korda

Sources

Elsewhere: Wikipedia.

Every fact on this page comes from Golf Network News data sets compiled in October 2026 (Masters, PGA Championship, The Open, U.S. Women's Open, Ryder Cup, PGA Tour 2024–2026, major host sites, Champions Dinner menus, and the U.S. Open and state rooms). These are the sources those rows cite.