2023 U.S. Women's Open

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2023 U.S. Women's Open
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Tournament information
DatesJuly 6–9, 2023
Location Pebble Beach, California, U.S.
36°34′05″N121°57′00″W / 36.568°N 121.950°W / 36.568; -121.950
Course(s) Pebble Beach Golf Links
Organized by USGA
Tour(s) LPGA Tour
Statistics
Par72 [1]
Length6,509 yards (5,952 m) [2]
Field156 players, 74 after cut
Cut150 (+6)
Prize fund$11,000,000
Winner's share$2,000,000
Champion
Flag of the United States.svg Allisen Corpuz
279 (−9)
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  2022
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The 2023 U.S. Women's Open was the 78th U.S. Women's Open, held July 6 to 9 at the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. [3] [4] [5]

Contents

Allisen Corpuz won by three strokes over Charley Hull and Jiyai Shin. It was her first LPGA Tour win. [6]

Venue

Pebble Beach Golf Links, hole 7 Pebble Beach Golf Links, hole 7.jpg
Pebble Beach Golf Links, hole 7

The course had previously hosted the U.S. Open for men six times. This was the first U.S. Women's Open held on the course. [7]

Course layout

[2]

Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Yards3445093843081874961073954373,1674293671733915423763741755153,3426,509
Par454435344364434544353672

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 a record number of entries for the championship, 2,107 players. [8]

The purse for the tournament was a record $11 million with a record winner's share of $2 million. Those who did not make the cut, received a payment of $8,000. [9]

Exemptions

This list details the exemption criteria for the 2023 U.S. Women's Open and the players exempt. Many players were exempt in multiple categories. [10] [lower-alpha 1]

1. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open for the last 10 years (2013–2022)

2. From the 2022 U.S. Women's Open, the 10 lowest scorers and anyone tying for 10th place

3. Winner of the 2022 U.S. Senior Women's Open

4. Winner of the 2022 U.S. Women's Amateur

5. Winners of the 2022 U.S. Girls' Junior and U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur and the 2022 U.S. Women's Amateur runner-up (must be an amateur)

6. Winners of the Chevron Championship (2019–2023)

7. Winners of the Women's PGA Championship (2018–2023)

8. Winners of The Evian Championship (2018–2022)

9. Winners of the Women’s British Open (2018–2022)

10. The top 30 point leaders from the 2022 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 2022 U.S. Women's Open to the initiation of the 2023 U.S. Women's Open (only events that awarded a full point allocation for the Race to the CME Globe)

12. Winner of the 2023 Augusta National Women's Amateur (must be an amateur)

13. Winner of the 2022 Women's Amateur Championship (must be an amateur)

14. Winner of the 2022 Mark H. McCormack Medal (No. 1 in World Amateur Golf Ranking; must be an amateur)

15. Winner of the 2023 NCAA Division I Individual Golf Championship (must be an amateur)

16. From the 2023 Race to CME Globe, the top 10 point leaders as of May 3, 2023

17. From the current Women's World Golf Rankings, the top 75 players and anyone tying for 75th place as of May 3, 2023

18. From the current Women's World Golf Rankings, the top 75 players and anyone tying for 75th place as of July 3, 2023

19. Special exemptions

Qualifying

Qualifying took place May 9 to June 7, 2023, via 36-hole stroke-play qualifiers at 26 different sites, 23 of them in the United States and one each in Belgium, Canada and Japan. [13] [14]

DateLocationVenueFieldSpotsQualifiers [lower-alpha 1] Ref
May 9 Naples, Florida The Club of Mediterra 692 Lindy Duncan, Brooke Matthews
May 9 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Shannopin Country Club 542 Amelia Garvey, Angela Zhang (a)
May 15 Coquitlam, Canada Vancouver Golf Club 582 Lauren Kim (a), Gabriela Ruffels [15]
May 15 Atlanta, Georgia Druid Hills Golf Club 782 Sarah Edwards (a), Benedetta Moresco (a) [15]
May 15 Westfield, New Jersey Echo Lake Country Club 814 Haeji Kang, Annie Park, Jenny Shin, Natthakritta Vongtaveelap [15]
May 17 Alexandria, Virginia Belle Haven Country Club 724 Jaravee Boonchant, María Fassi, Ruixin Liu, Yin Xiaowen [16]
May 22 Novato, California Marin Country Club 752 Huang Ting-hsuan (a), Dewi Weber [17]
May 22 Valencia, California Valencia Country Club 742 Zoe Campos (a), Anna Davis (a)
May 22 Bradenton, Florida Bradenton Country Club 712 Pernilla Lindberg, Beatrice Wallin [18]
May 22 Honolulu, Hawaii Oahu Country Club 461 Marissa Chow
May 22 Mendota Heights, Minnesota Somerset Country Club 462 Amy Olson, Bailey Tardy
May 24 St. Louis, Missouri Bellerive Country Club 782 Jing Yan, Sophie Linder (a)
May 24 Galveston, Texas Galveston Country Club 682 Dottie Ardina, Aline Krauter [19]
May 25 Carrollton, Texas Indian Creek Golf Club (Creek Course)752 Maddison Hinson-Tolchard (a), Farah O'Keefe (a)
May 29 Wanze, Belgium Golf Club de Naxhelet 683 Manon De Roey, Alice Hewson, Emma Spitz
May 29 Chiba Prefecture, Japan Boso Country Club (East/West Courses)1235 Akie Iwai (18), Aya Kinoshita, Kana Mikashima, Miyu Sato, Hana Wakimoto
May 30 Scottsdale, Arizona Gainey Ranch Golf Club 682 Julia Misemer (a), Grace Summerhays (a)
May 31 Greensboro, North Carolina Starmount Forest Country Club 702 Emilia Migliaccio (a), Haru Nomura
May 31 Columbus, Ohio Ohio State University Golf Club (Scarlet Course)772 Teresa Toscano Borrero, Charlotte Thomas
Jun 1 Broomfield, Colorado The Broadlands Golf Course 652 Sadie Englemann (a), Megan Propeck (a)
Jun 5 Rancho Santa Fe, California Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club 642 Amari Avery (a), Jeneath Wong (a)
Jun 5 San Mateo, California The Peninsula Golf & Country Club 722 Áine Donegan (a), Kelly Xu (a)
Jun 5 Woodburn, Oregon OGA Golf Course 702 Minori Nagano (a), Ayako Uehara
Jun 7 Jupiter, Florida The Club at Admirals Cove (North/West Courses)672 Laura Sluman, Therese Warner
Jun 7 Palatine, Illinois Palatine Hills Golf Course 672 Milagros Chaves, Mackenzie Hahn
Jun 7 Duxbury, Massachusetts Duxbury Yacht Club 723 Celeste Dao (a), Daniela Darquea, Perrine Delacour

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: [lower-alpha 1]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, July 6, 2023

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Hyo-joo 68−4
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lin Xiyu
T3 Flag of the United States.svg Allisen Corpuz 69−3
Flag of Ireland.svg Áine Donegan (a)
Flag of Japan.svg Nasa Hataoka
Flag of Ireland.svg Leona Maguire
Flag of South Korea.svg Ryu Hae-ran
Flag of the United States.svg Bailey Tardy
T9 Flag of the United States.svg Amari Avery (a)70−2
Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Jeong-eun
Flag of Italy.svg Benedetta Moresco (a)
Flag of South Korea.svg Amy Yang

Second round

Friday, July 7, 2023

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Flag of the United States.svg Bailey Tardy 69-68=137−7
T2 Flag of the United States.svg Allisen Corpuz 69-70=139−5
Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Hyo-joo 68-71=139
4 Flag of South Korea.svg Ryu Hae-ran 69-72=141−3
T5 Flag of Japan.svg Nasa Hataoka 69-74=143−1
Flag of Ireland.svg Leona Maguire 69-74=143
T7 Flag of South Korea.svg Chun In-gee 72-72=144E
Flag of Japan.svg Ayaka Furue 74-70=144
Flag of South Korea.svg Jiyai Shin 71-73=144
Flag of the United States.svg Angel Yin 71-73=144

Third round

Saturday, July 8, 2023

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Flag of Japan.svg Nasa Hataoka 69-74-66=209−7
2 Flag of the United States.svg Allisen Corpuz 69-70-71=210−6
T3 Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Hyo-joo 68-71-73=212−4
Flag of the United States.svg Bailey Tardy 69-68-75=212
T5 Flag of South Korea.svg Ryu Hae-ran 69-72-73=214−2
Flag of South Korea.svg Jiyai Shin 71-73-70=214
T7 Flag of England.svg Charley Hull 73-72-71=216E
Flag of the United States.svg Angel Yin 71-73-72=216
T9 Flag of Japan.svg Ayaka Furue 74-70-73=217+1
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Minjee Lee 72-73-72=217
Flag of Sweden.svg Maja Stark 72-73-72=217
Flag of the United States.svg Rose Zhang 74-71-72=217

Fourth round

Sunday, July 9, 2023

PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1 Flag of the United States.svg Allisen Corpuz 69-70-71-69=279−92,000,000
T2 Flag of England.svg Charley Hull 73-72-71-66=282−6969,231
Flag of South Korea.svg Jiyai Shin 71-73-70-68=282
T4 Flag of Japan.svg Nasa Hataoka 69-74-66-76=285−3482,136
Flag of the United States.svg Bailey Tardy 69-68-75-73=285
T6 Flag of Japan.svg Ayaka Furue 74-70-73-69=286−2369,403
Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Hyo-joo 68-71-73-74=286
8 Flag of South Korea.svg Ryu Hae-ran 69-72-73-74=288E313,713
T9 Flag of Sweden.svg Maja Stark 72-73-72-72=289+1272,355
Flag of the United States.svg Rose Zhang 74-71-72-72=289

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 (a) – denotes amateur
  2. Zhang originally qualified by winning 2023 Augusta National Women's Amateur, the 2022 Mark H. McCormack Medal and the 2023 NCAA Division I Individual Golf Championship all as an amateur before announcing that she was turning pro.

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