Tournament information | |
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Dates | May 30 – June 2, 2024 |
Location | Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S. 40°03′42″N76°16′15″W / 40.0617°N 76.2708°W |
Course(s) | Lancaster Country Club |
Organized by | USGA |
Tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 71 |
Length | 6,546 yards (5,986 m) |
Field | 156 players |
Prize fund | $12,000,000 |
Location map | |
Location in the United States Location in Pennsylvania | |
The 2024 U.S. Women's Open is the 79th U.S. Women's Open, to be held May 30 to June 2 at the Lancaster Country Club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. [1]
The course had previously hosted the 2015 U.S. Women's Open.
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. [2]
The purse for the tournament was a record $12 million. [3]
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. [4] [lower-alpha 1]
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)
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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
Qualifying will take 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. [5] [6]
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The 2017 U.S. Women's Open was the 72nd U.S. Women's Open, held July 13–16 at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, west of New York City.
The 2018 U.S. Women's Open was the 73rd U.S. Women's Open, played May 31 – June 3 at Shoal Creek Club in Shoal Creek, Alabama, a suburb southeast of Birmingham.
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