Billabong Pro Maui
Celebrating 12 years in 2009.
Defending champion: Stephanie Gilmore, Australia.

Event dates: December 8-20, 2009, will run on the two best days of surf during the period.

Event rating: Women's elite World Championship Tour event. Will decide the 2009 women's world title.

Prize purse: $90,000

The Wave: Honolua Bay, the only outer-island stop on the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, is a right-hand point break that is the kind of wave surfers dream of. Peeling off over several hundred yards, the ride offers numerous top to bottom maneuvers as well as barrel riding. Australians have won this event 10 of the 11 years it has run as it greatly resembles the right-hand, sand-bottom point breaks of Queensland and New South Wales.

Past Champions:
2008 - Stephanie Gilmore, Australia
2007 - Stephanie Gilmore, Australia
2006 - Jessi Miley-Dyer, Australia
2005 - Chelsea Georgeson, Australia
2004 - Chelsea Georgeson, Australia
2003 - Samantha Cornish, Australia
2002 - Jacqueline Silva, Brazil
2001 - Neridah Falconer, Australia
2000 - Neridah Falconer, Australia
1999 - Trudy Todd, Australia