2016 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship

2016 U.S. Women's Open

Tournament information
Dates	July 7–10, 2016
Location	San Martin, California
Course(s)	CordeValle Golf Club
Organized by	USGA
Tour(s)	LPGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,784 yards (6,203 m)[1]
Field	156 players, 72 after cut
Cut	148 (+4)
Prize fund	$4.5 million
Winner's share	$810,000
Champion
Brittany Lang
282 (−6), playoff
«2015 2017»

The 2016 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship was the 71st U.S. Women's Open, played from July 7 through 10 at CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin, California, southeast of San Jose.

The U.S. Women's Open is the oldest of the five current major championships and the third of the 2016 season. It has the largest purse in women's golf at $4.5 million, and was televised by Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports.

Brittany Lang won her first major title in a playoff over Anna Nordqvist.^[2]

Qualifying and field

The championship was open to any female professional or amateur golfer with a USGA handicap index not exceeding 2.4. Players qualified by competing in one of twenty 36-hole qualifying tournaments held at sites across the United States and at international sites in China, England, Japan, and South Korea. Additional players were exempt from qualifying because of past performances in professional or amateur tournaments around the world. The USGA received a record 1,855 entries for the championship.^[3]

Exempt from qualifying

Many players are exempt in multiple categories. Players are listed only once, in the first category in which they became exempt, with additional categories in parentheses ( ) next to their names. Golfers qualifying in Category 13 who qualified in other categories are denoted with the tour by which they qualified.^[4]

1. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open for the last ten years (2006–2015)

Choi Na-yeon (10,15,16), Chun In-gee (9,11,13-KLPGA,15,16), Paula Creamer (10,15), Ji Eun-hee (10,15,16), Cristie Kerr (10,12,15,16), Ryu So-yeon (9,10,15,16), Michelle Wie (10)

• Inbee Park (5,6,7,9,10,12,15,16) – thumb injury^[5] and Annika Sörenstam did not enter the tournament

2. Winner and runner-up from the 2015 U.S. Women's Amateur (must be an amateur)

Hannah O'Sullivan (a), Sierra Brooks (a)

3. Winner of the 2016 British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship (must be an amateur)

Julia Engstrom (a)

4. Winner of the 2015 Mark H. McCormack Medal (Women's World Amateur Golf Ranking) (must be an amateur)

Leona Maguire (a)

5. Winners of the Women's PGA Championship for the last five years (2012–2016)

Shanshan Feng (13-LET,14,15,16), Brooke Henderson (9,11,12,15,16)

6. Winners of the Women's British Open for the last five years (2011–2015)

Stacy Lewis (9,10,15,16), Mo Martin (16), Yani Tseng

• Jiyai Shin (13-JLPGA,15,16) did not enter the tournament

7. Winners of the ANA Inspiration for the last five years (2012–2016)

Lydia Ko (8,10,11,12,15,16), Brittany Lincicome (15,16), Lexi Thompson (11,12,15,16), Yoo Sun-young (10)

8. Winners of the Evian Championship (2013–2015)

Kim Hyo-joo (12, 13-KLPGA,15,16), Suzann Pettersen (10,15,16)

9. Ten lowest scorers and anyone tying for 10th place from the 2015 U.S. Women's Open

Pernilla Lindberg (10), Shiho Oyama (15,16), Jane Park (10), Morgan Pressel (10,15,16) Amy Yang (10,15,16)

10. Top 75 money leaders from the 2015 final official LPGA money list

Marina Alex, Baek Kyu-jung, Chella Choi (12,15,16), Carlota Ciganda (15,16), Austin Ernst, Sandra Gal, Julieta Granada, Jaye Marie Green, Wei Ling Hsu, Charley Hull (15,16), M. J. Hur, Karine Icher, Jang Ha-na (11,12,15,16), Ariya Jutanugarn (12,15,16), Moriya Jutanugarn, Danielle Kang, Kim Kaufman, Christina Kim, In-Kyung Kim, Kim Sei-young (11,15,16), Jessica Korda (12,15,16), Candie Kung (15,16), Brittany Lang (15,16), Alison Lee (15,16), Ilhee Lee (15), Lee Mi-hyang (15), Min Lee, Minjee Lee (11,12,15,16), Mirim Lee (15,16), Caroline Masson, Catriona Matthew, Maria McBride, Sydnee Michaels, Mika Miyazato (15,16), Azahara Muñoz (15,16), Haru Nomura (11,12,15,16), Anna Nordqvist (15,16), Ryann O'Toole, Lee-Anne Pace (15,16), Park Hee-young (16), Pornanong Phatlum (15,16), Gerina Piller (11,15,16), Beatriz Recari, Lizette Salas (15), Alena Sharp, Jenny Shin (11,12,15,16), Kelly Shon, Jennifer Song, Angela Stanford, Kris Tamulis (12), Mariajo Uribe, Karrie Webb (15), Sakura Yokomine

11. Top 10 money leaders from the 2016 official LPGA money list, through the close of entries on May 4

12. Winners of LPGA co-sponsored events, whose victories are considered official, from the conclusion of the 2015 U.S. Women's Open to the initiation of the 2016 U.S. Women's Open

13. Top five money leaders from the 2015 Japan LPGA Tour, Korea LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour

• Japan LPGA Tour: Ahn Sun-ju (15,16), Lee Bo-mee (15,16), Teresa Lu (15,16)
• Korea LPGA Tour: Cho Yoon-ji, Lee Jung-min (15, 16), Park Sung-hyun (15,16)
• Ladies European Tour: Melissa Reid, Nicole Broch Larsen, Gwladys Nocera, Beth Allen
• Jang Su-yeon (KLPGA,16), Ko Jin-young (KLPGA,15,16), Lee Ji-hee (JLPGA,15), did not play

14. Top three money leaders from the 2015 China LPGA Tour

Ssu-Chia Cheng, Xi Yu Lin

• Pan Yan-hong did not play

15. Top 50 point leaders from the current Rolex Rankings and anyone tying for 50th place as of May 4

16. Top 50 point leaders from the current Rolex Rankings and anyone tying for 50th place as of July 3

Su-Hyun Oh, Ayaka Watanabe

• Kim Ha-neul did not play

17. Special exemptions selected by the USGA

Se Ri Pak^[6]

Qualifiers

Additional players qualified through sectional qualifying tournaments taking place in May and June at sites in the United States, China, South Korea, England, and Japan.^[7]

Alternates added to field

The following players were added to the field before the start of the tournament when spots reserved for exemptions in various categories were not used, and to replace players who withdrew from the tournament.

• Amy Anderson, Hannah Burke, Chih-Min Chen (a), Cydney Clanton, Kotone Hori, Caroline Inglis, Yunjie Zhang (a)

Nationalities in the field

North America (64)	South America (4)	Europe (27)	Oceana (5)	Asia (54)	Africa (2)
Canada (6)	Brazil (1)	England (4)	Australia (3)	China (5)	South Africa (2)
Mexico (2)	Colombia (2)	Scotland (2)	New Zealand (2)	Japan (10)
United States (56)	Paraguay (1)	Ireland (1)		Malaysia (1)
		Denmark (1)		South Korea (26)
		France (4)		Taiwan (9)
		Germany (4)		Thailand (3)
		Norway (1)
		Spain (3)
		Sweden (6)
		Switzerland (1)

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Ji Eun-hee	South Korea	2009	69	71	70	74	284	−4	T3
Cristie Kerr	United States	2007	67	75	72	72	286	−2	T8
Ryu So-yeon	South Korea	2011	71	76	71	69	287	−1	T11
Karrie Webb	Australia	2000, 2001	73	73	73	74	293	+5	T46
Paula Creamer	United States	2010	74	74	74	76	298	+10	T59

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Michelle Wie	United States	2014	75	74	149	+5
Chun In-gee	South Korea	2015	73	77	150	+6
Choi Na-yeon	South Korea	2012	74	77	151	+7
Pak Se-ri	South Korea	1998	73	80	153	+9

Course layout

Round	Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
	Par	4	4	5	3	4	4	4	3	5	36	4	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	5	36	72
1	Yards	396	426	523	210	352	371	410	183	561	3,432	407	360	191	382	429	471	166	418	528	3,352	6,784
2	Yards	402	423	525	179	347	374	401	155	553	3,359	408	349	183	375	435	471	168	409	537	3,355	6,694
3	Yards	381	428	518	160	349	372	405	164	549	3,326	407	363	202	389	438	483	177	413	517	3,389	6,715
4	Yards	400	421	494	214	360	381	416	147	572	3,405	399	358	183	384	435	485	120	426	523	3,313	6,718

• Scoring average: 74.49
  • by round: 74.37, 75.22, 72.69, 73.93
• Most difficult holes in relation to par: 14, 2, 9, 1, 8

Source:^[1]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Mirim Lee	South Korea	64	−8
T2	Cristie Kerr	United States	67	−5
	Minjee Lee	Australia
	Amy Yang	South Korea
T5	Brittany Lang	United States	68	−4
	Anna Nordqvist	Sweden
	Kelly Tan	Malaysia
T8	Ji Eun-hee	South Korea	69	−3
	Moriya Jutanugarn	Thailand
	Sydnee Michaels	United States

Second round

Friday, July 8, 2016

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Park Sung-hyun	South Korea	70-66=136	−8
T2	Mirim Lee	South Korea	64-74=138	−6
	Amy Yang	South Korea	67-71=138
T4	Lydia Ko	New Zealand	73-66=139	−5
	Haru Nomura	Japan	70-69=139
T6	Ji Eun-hee	South Korea	69-71=140	−4
	Danielle Kang	United States	71-69=140
	Jessica Korda	United States	70-70=140
	Kelly Tan	Malaysia	68-72=140
10	Maude-Aimee Leblanc	Canada	72-69=141	−3
	Mo Martin	United States	71-70=141
	Sydnee Michaels	United States	69-72=141
	Jodi Ewart Shadoff	England	70-71=141
	Angela Stanford	United States	71-70=141

Third round

Saturday, July 9, 2016

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Lydia Ko	New Zealand	73-66-70=209	−7
T2	Ji Eun-hee	South Korea	69-71-70=210	−6
	Park Sung-hyun	South Korea	70-66-74=210
T4	Brittany Lang	United States	68-75-68=211	−5
	Amy Yang	South Korea	67-71-73=211
6	Angela Stanford	United States	71-70-71=212	−4
7	Danielle Kang	United States	71-69-73=213	−3
T8	Ariya Jutanugarn	Thailand	70-75-69=214	−2
	Cristie Kerr	United States	67-75-72=214
	Mirim Lee	South Korea	64-74-76=214
	Stacy Lewis	United States	71-74-69=214
	Gaby López	Mexico	71-72-71=214
	Haru Nomura	Japan	70-69-75=214
	Kris Tamulis	United States	71-72-71=214

Final round

Sunday, July 10, 2016

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	Brittany Lang	United States	68-75-68-71=282	−6	Playoff
	Anna Nordqvist	Sweden	68-74-73-67=282
T3	Ji Eun-hee	South Korea	69-71-70-74=284	−4	213,638
	Lydia Ko	New Zealand	73-66-70-75=284
	Park Sung-hyun	South Korea	70-66-74-74=284
	Amy Yang	South Korea	67-71-73-73=284
7	Stacy Lewis	United States	71-74-69-71=285	−3	140,590
T8	Cristie Kerr	United States	67-75-72-72=286	−2	115,705
	Gerina Piller	United States	70-72-74-70=286
	Jodi Ewart Shadoff	England	70-71-75-70=286

Source:^[8]

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	5	3	4	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	5
Lang	−6	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−7	−6	−6
Nordqvist	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−6	−6	−6	−6
Ji	−6	−5	−5	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4
Ko	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−7	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4
S. Park	−6	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−4	−5	−5	−5	−4
Yang	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−4
Lewis	–2	–2	–2	–1	–1	–2	–2	–2	–1	–1	–1	–1	–1	–1	–2	–2	–3	–3
Kerr	–1	–1	–1	–1	–1	–1	–1	–1	–1	–2	–2	–1	–1	E	–1	–1	–1	–2
Piller	E	–1	–1	–1	–2	–2	–2	–3	–2	–1	–2	–2	–1	–1	–2	–2	–2	–2
Shadoff	E	E	–1	–1	–1	–2	–2	–2	–2	–2	–2	–1	–1	–1	–2	–2	–2	–2
M. Lee	–2	–3	–3	–3	–4	–5	–5	–4	–4	–4	–3	–3	–2	–1	–1	–1	–1	–1
Stanford	–4	–4	–3	–3	–3	–3	–3	–3	–2	–2	–2	–2	–1	–1	–1	–1	–1	–1
Jutanugarn	–2	–2	E	E	E	E	E	–1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	E	E
Kang	–1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	+1	+1	E

Source:^[8]

Playoff

The three-hole aggregate playoff was held on the final three holes, and any additional play in sudden-death was to occur on the final hole. Both players made pars on the first two holes, but it was soon determined that Nordqvist had slightly moved sand prior to her approach shot from the fairway bunker on 17, a two-stroke penalty (rule 13-4b). The players were told of the penalty by a rules official midway through the par-5 final hole, after Nordqvist's third shot but before Lang's.^[2]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Brittany Lang	United States	3-4-5=12	E	810,000
2	Anna Nordqvist	Sweden	3-6-6=15	+3	486,000

• Playoff held on holes 16, 17, and 18.

Scorecard

Hole	16	17	18
Par	3	4	5
Lang	E	E	E
Nordqvist	E	+2	+3

Cumulative playoff scores, relative to par
Source:^[8]

References

External links

• Official website
• 2016 U.S. Women's Open at LPGA official site

Preceded by 2016 KPMG Women's PGA Championship	Major Championships	Succeeded by 2016 Women's British Open

Coordinates: 37°04′05″N 121°37′59″W / 37.068°N 121.633°W / 37.068; -121.633