[4] The format was changed to match-play in 1898 and was won by McKenzie who beat Ethel Guthrie in the final.

[5] In 1899 Louise Shaw won a close final at Royal Melbourne to win the title.

Evelyn Calder won with a score of 209, 23 strokes ahead of the runner-up, some sources referring to her as "the first lady champion of Australia".

[9][10] The championship meeting returned to the Sydney area in 1901, being played at The Australian Golf Club.

[13] In 1903 the meeting returned to Adelaide Golf Club with the ladies championship played immediately before the men's event.

Myrtle Backhouse, a British visitor, won in 1905 with Elvie Whitesides from Tasmania winning in 1906.

[21][22] The event returned to stroke-play in 1912 and resulted in a tie between Violet Binnie and Florence Fowler.

[27][28][29] Other winners included Gladys Hay in 1922, Beth Newton Lees in 1924 and Nellie Gatehouse who won for a second time in 1925.

[38] New Zealander Oliver Kay led the qualifying in 1933 and went on to win the title, beating Joan Hammond 9&8 in the final.

[42] Betty Kernot won the title in 1937 and 1938, beating Burtta Cheney and Vedas Ebert.

[47][48] 19-year-old Janette Wellard won in 1950 and she was followed by Maxine Bishop in 1951, who beat Borthwick in a close final.

[51][52] In 1954 Judith Percy won her first title, beating New Zealander Doreen Blundell in the final.

[53] The players in 1955 included a British women's team that was touring Australia and New Zealand in the second half of the year, all aged between 18 and 21.

[54] Fletcher reached the final again in 1956 but lost to Pat Borthwick, who won her fourth title.

[57] In 1961 18-year-old Beatrice Hayley beat Enid Hauritz 13&11, the largest winning margin in any final.

[59] In 1963 a number of overseas golfer competed, having played in the recent Commonwealth Trophy.

[68] The 1973 championship included a large number of overseas entries, playing in the five-nation Women's International Series the following week.

Maisie Mooney, a member of the Great Britain and Ireland team, beat Jane Lock in the final.

[72] Lock failed to qualify in 1977, with Lindy Goggin and Jane Crafter leading the stroke-play.

[74] The 1979 championship was played soon after the Commonwealth Trophy, resulting in a larger than usual number of overseas entries.

[78] The championship was won by Regine Lautens, a member of the Swiss team, who beat Goggin in the final.

In 1972, the stroke-play stage was extended to 72 holes to give players more practise for the forthcoming Espirito Santo Trophy.

From 2008 to 2011 qualification was based on the result of the Australian Women's Amateur Stroke Play Championship but that event was discontinued after 2011 and 36-hole qualifying was reintroduced in 2012.