2024 U.S. Women's Open

2024 U.S. Women's Open
Tournament information
DatesMay 30 – June 2, 2024
LocationLancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.
40°03′42″N 76°16′15″W / 40.0617°N 76.2708°W / 40.0617; -76.2708
Course(s)Lancaster Country Club Meadowcreek / Dogwood Course
Organized byUSGA
Tour(s)LPGA Tour
Statistics
Par70
Length6,546 yards (5,986 m)
Field156 players, 75 after cut
Cut148 (+8)
Prize fund$12,000,000
Winner's share$2,400,000
Champion
Japan Yuka Saso
276 (−4)
Location map
Lancaster Country Club is located in the United States
Lancaster Country Club
Lancaster Country Club
Location in the United States
Lancaster Country Club is located in Pennsylvania
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The 2024 U.S. Women's Open was the 79th U.S. Women's Open, played May 30 to June 2 at the Lancaster Country Club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.[1]

The purse for the tournament was a record $12 million.[2] The winner's share is now 20% for the men's and women's Open Championships, earning the Women's Open winner $2.4 million.[3]

Yuka Saso won by three strokes over compatriot Hinako Shibuno. It was Saso's second U.S. Women's Open win, having also won in 2021. It was her second major win and second LPGA Tour win.[4]

Venue

Main article: Lancaster Country Club

The course had previously hosted the 2015 U.S. Women's Open.

Field

The field for the U.S. Women's Open was made up of players who gained entry through qualifying events and those who were exempt from qualifying. The exemption criteria included provision for recent major champions, winners of major amateur events, and leading players in the Women's World Golf Rankings.

The USGA accepted 1,897 entries for the championship.[5]

Exemptions

This list details the exemption criteria for the 2024 U.S. Women's Open and the players exempt. Many players were exempt in multiple categories.[6][a]

1. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open for the last 10 years (2014–2023)

2. From the 2023 U.S. Women's Open, the 10 lowest scorers and anyone tying for 10th place

3. Winner of the 2023 U.S. Senior Women's Open

4. Winner of the 2023 U.S. Women's Amateur

5. Winners of the 2023 U.S. Girls' Junior and U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur and the 2023 U.S. Women's Amateur runner-up (must be an amateur)

6. Winners of the Chevron Championship (2020–2024)

7. Winners of the Women's PGA Championship (2019–2023)

8. Winners of The Evian Championship (2019–2023)

9. Winners of the Women’s British Open (2019–2023)

10. The top 30 point leaders from the 2023 LPGA Race to the CME Globe Final Points.

11. Winners of individual LPGA co-sponsored events, whose victories were considered official, from the conclusion of the 2023 U.S. Women's Open to the initiation of the 2024 U.S. Women's Open (only events that awarded a full point allocation for the Race to the CME Globe)

12. Winner of the 2024 Augusta National Women's Amateur (must be an amateur)

13. Winner of the 2023 Women's Amateur Championship (must be an amateur)

14. Winner of the 2023 Mark H. McCormack Medal (No. 1 in World Amateur Golf Ranking; must be an amateur)

15. Winner of the 2024 NCAA Division I Individual Golf Championship (must be an amateur)

16. From the 2024 Race to CME Globe, the top 10 point leaders as of April 3, 2024

17. From the current Women's World Golf Rankings, the top 75 players and anyone tying for 75th place as of April 3, 2024

18. From the current Women's World Golf Rankings, the top 75 players and anyone tying for 75th place as of May 27, 2024 (if not previously exempt)

19. Special exemptions

  • None

Qualifying

Qualifying took place April 15 to May 20, 2024, via 36-hole stroke-play qualifiers at 26 different sites, 23 of them in the United States and one each in Germany, Canada and Japan.[7][8]

Date Location Venue Field Spots Qualifiers[a]
Apr 15 Coquitlam, British Columbia The Vancouver Golf Club 46 2 Amelia Garvey, Madison Young
Apr 15 El Macero, California El Macero Country Club 72 3 Megha Ganne (a), Sabrina Iqbal (a), Alexa Melton
Apr 16 Waikoloa Village, Hawaii The Village Course at Waikoloa 35 1 Yuka Nii
Apr 22 Chiba Prefecture, Japan Boso Country Club 121 5 Saiki Fujita, Yui Kawamoto, Ayako Kimura, Amiyu Ozeki, Peiying Tsai
Apr 23 San Jacinto, California Soboba Springs Golf Course 77 2 Mariel Galdiano, Hsin-Yu Lu
Apr 25 Alexandria, Virginia Belle Haven Country Club 69 2 Ruixin Liu, Jean Reynolds
Apr 29 Ojai, California Soule Park Golf Course 74 3 Joo Soo-bin, Catherine Park (a), Yuri Yoshida
Apr 29 Rockwall, Texas Rockwall Golf & Athletic Club 78 2 Áine Donegan (a), Hsu Huai-Chien (a)
Apr 30 Westminster, Colorado Walnut Creek Golf Preserve 71 3 Celine Borge, Isi Gabsa, Moriya Jutanugarn
Apr 30 Greensboro, North Carolina Starmount Forest Country Club 72 2 Pauline Roussin, Lauren Stephenson
Apr 30 Seattle, Washington Rainier Golf & Country Club 71 3 Caroline Inglis, Jeon Ji-won, Emily Kristine Pedersen
May 1 Winchester, Massachusetts Winchester Country Club 60 3 Sofia García, Katie Li (a), Lucy Li
May 2 Columbus, Ohio Ohio State University Golf Club 71 3 Isabella Fierro, Hsu Wei-ling, Wichanee Meechai
May 6 Scottsdale, Arizona Pinnacle Peak Country Club 72 3 Kim Kaufman, Alana Uriell, Savannah Vilaubi
May 6 Fresno, California San Joaquin Country Club 64 2 Gabriela Ruffels, Asterisk Talley (a)
May 6 New Smyrna Beach, Florida Sugar Mill Country Club 49 2 Stephanie Kyriacou, Elizabeth Szokol
May 6 Dunwoody, Georgia Dunwoody Country Club 43 2 Arpichaya Yubol, Kristen Gillman
May 6 Wayzata, Minnesota Woodhill Country Club 33 1 Kaitlyn Papp Budde
May 7 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Shannopin Country Club 54 2 Rachel Rohanna, Marissa Steen
May 8 St. Louis, Missouri Sunset Country Club 36 1 Samantha Brown (a)
May 10 Jupiter, Florida The Club at Admirals Cove 56 2 Maisie Filler (a), Sydnee Michaels
May 13 Bradenton, Florida Bradenton Country Club 64 2 Pimpisa Sisutham (a), Amelie Zalsman (a)
May 13 Deerfield, Illinois Briarwood Country Club 65 2 Keeley Marx (a), Caroline Smith (a)
May 13 Haworth, New Jersey Haworth Country Club 69 4 Maude-Aimée LeBlanc, Liu Yan, Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Caroline Masson
May 13 Pearland, Texas Golfcrest Country Club 74 2 Adéla Cernousek (a), Elina Sinz (a)
May 20 Michendorf, Germany Golf & Country Club Seddiner See 3 Casandra Alexander, Pia Babnik, Mariajo Uribe[9]

Alternates who gained entry

The following players gained a place in the field having finished as the leading alternates in the specified final qualifying events:[10]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Tee times were assigned to 134 professionals and 22 amateurs.[11] Only four players scored under par for the round, led by Yuka Saso at −2. The scoring average for the round was 75.2, more than five strokes over par. The top-10 players in the Women's World Golf Rankings averaged 75.5, including a round of 80 by top-ranked Nelly Korda, who scored a septuple bogey on her third hole (the par-3, 12th hole). Three amateurs made the top-10 including 15-year-old Asterisk Talley.[12][13]

Place Player Score To par
1 Japan Yuka Saso 68 −2
T2 France Adéla Cernousek (a) 69 −1
United States Andrea Lee
Thailand Wichanee Meechai
T5 Slovenia Pia Babnik 70 E
Germany Alexandra Försterling
Japan Chisato Iwai
South Korea Kim Sei-young
Australia Minjee Lee
United States Catherine Park (a)
United States Megan Schofill (a)
South Korea Jenny Shin
United States Asterisk Talley (a)
Japan Yuri Yoshida

Second round

Friday, May 31, 2024

Place Player Score To par
1 Thailand Wichanee Meechai 69-67=136 −4
2 United States Andrea Lee 69-69=138 −2
T3 Australia Minjee Lee 70-69=139 −1
Japan Yuka Saso 68-71=139
T5 Chinese Taipei Hsu Wei-ling 72-69=141 +1
South Korea Im Jin-hee 73-68=141
Japan Chisato Iwai 70-71=141
Japan Sakura Koiwai 72-69=141
South Korea Lee Mi-hyang 74-67=141
United States Megan Schofill (a) 70-71=141
Japan Hinako Shibuno 71-70=141
United States Asterisk Talley (a) 70-71=141

Third round

Saturday, June 1, 2024

71 professionals and 4 amateurs survived Friday's cut in order to play the weekend.[14]

Place Player Score To par
T1 United States Andrea Lee 69-69-67=205 −5
Australia Minjee Lee 70-69-66=205
Thailand Wichanee Meechai 69-67-69=205
4 Japan Hinako Shibuno 71-70-66=207 −3
5 Japan Yuka Saso 68-71-69=208 −2
T6 South Korea Im Jin-hee 73-68-70=211 +1
Japan Sakura Koiwai 72-69-70=211
T8 South Korea Lee Mi-hyang 74-67-71=212 +2
Japan Rio Takeda 74-69-69=212
Thailand Arpichaya Yubol 72-72-68=212

Final round

Sunday, June 2, 2024

Champion
Low amateurs
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1 Japan Yuka Saso (c) 68-71-69-68=276 −4 2,400,000
2 Japan Hinako Shibuno 71-70-66-72=279 −1 1,296,000
T3 United States Ally Ewing 74-72-68-66=280 E 664,778
United States Andrea Lee 69-69-67-75=280
5 Thailand Arpichaya Yubol 72-72-68-69=281 +1 456,375
T6 Japan Ayaka Furue 71-72-71-68=282 +2 365,406
Thailand Wichanee Meechai 69-67-69-77=282
Thailand Atthaya Thitikul 74-72-68-68=282
T9 Japan Sakura Koiwai 72-69-70-72=283 +3 271,733
Australia Minjee Lee (c) 70-69-66-78=283
Japan Rio Takeda 74-69-69-71=283

Scorecard

Final round

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par 4 4 4 4 4 3 5 3 4 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 3 4
Japan Saso −2 −3 −3 −3 −3 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −2 −3 −3 −4 −5 −4 −4
Japan Shibuno −3 −3 −2 −1 −1 −1 −2 −1 −1 E E −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1
United States Ewing +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +3 +3 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 E E E
United States An.Lee −4 −4 −4 −2 −2 −2 −2 −1 −1 −1 −1 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −1 E
Thailand Yubol +1 +1 +1 E E +1 +1 E E −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 E +1 +1
Thailand Meechai −4 −3 −3 −3 −3 E E E E +1 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +2 +2
Australia Lee −6 −6 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −3 −2 −2 E E +2 +3 +3 +3 +3

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie Bogey Double bogey Triple bogey+

Source:[16]

Notes

  1. ^ a b (a) – denotes amateur
  2. ^ a b already in field via qualifying
  3. ^ Kim withdrew during her round on Friday due to a back injury.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Lancaster Country Club to Host 2024 US Womens Open Championship". LPGA. November 27, 2018.
  2. ^ Melton, Zephyr (February 1, 2024). "U.S. Women's Open offering record-setting purse in 2024". Golf Magazine.
  3. ^ Herrington, Ryan (May 29, 2024). "The USGA is making a quirky change to the prize money payouts for its winners in 2024". Golf Digest.
  4. ^ "Yuka Saso, 22, captures second U.S. Women's Open title". ESPN. June 2, 2024. Retrieved June 2, 2024.
  5. ^ DePasquale, Brian (April 4, 2024). "Corpuz Among 8 Past Champs Exempt for 2024 U.S. Women's Open". USGA.
  6. ^ "Currently Exempt Players for 79th U.S. Women's Open". USGA. March 10, 2024. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
  7. ^ DePasquale, Brian (February 13, 2024). "Road to Lancaster C.C. Begins With 26 Qualifying Sites". USGA.
  8. ^ "2024 U.S. Women's Open Qualifying Results". USGA. Retrieved May 15, 2024.
  9. ^ "Uribe, Alexander and Babnik qualify for 2024 U.S. Women's Open". Ladies European Tour. May 20, 2024.
  10. ^ Pine, Julia (May 27, 2024). "USGA announces final additions to field for 79th U.S. Women's Open Presented by Ally". USGA.
  11. ^ "2024 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship: Tee Times". USGA. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  12. ^ Ferguson, Doug (May 30, 2024). "Saso survives brutal starts of US Women's Open that sent Korda to an 80". Associated Press News. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
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  14. ^ "Tee Times Round 3". USGA. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
  15. ^ Nichols, Beth Ann (May 31, 2024). "Early contender Sei Young Kim withdraws from 2024 U.S. Women's Open". Golfweek. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
  16. ^ "U.S. Women's Open pres. by Ally 2024 - LPGA Golf Leaderboard". ESPN. Retrieved June 3, 2024.