Allisen Corpuz | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. | March 20, 1998
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
Sporting nationality | United States |
Career | |
College | University of Southern California |
Turned professional | 2021 |
Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2022) |
Professional wins | 1 |
Number of wins by tour | |
LPGA Tour | 1 |
Best results in LPGA major championships | |
Chevron Championship | T4: 2023 |
Women's PGA C'ship | T15: 2023 |
U.S. Women's Open | Won: 2023 |
Women's British Open | T6: 2023 |
Evian Championship | T26: 2024 |
Allisen Corpuz (born March 20, 1998) is an American professional golfer and member of the LPGA Tour. [1] She won the 2023 U.S. Women's Open at Pebble Beach.
Corpuz, born to a Filipino father from the Ilocos Region and a Korean mother, [2] is a Hawaii native and attended the Punahou School in Honolulu. A golf prodigy, she was a three-time AJGA All-American. In 2008, she surpassed Michelle Wie as the youngest qualifier in U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links history at 10 years, 3 months and 9 days, and was featured in The New York Times under the headline "Golf's Next Wave". [3] [4]
Corpuz won the 2014 Hawaii State Open, represented Hawaii in the 2014 Asia Pacific Junior Cup and represented the West team at 2012 AJGA Wyndham Cup. Before college, she had played in six USGA championships, the second most ever, and posted nine top-10 finishes in AJGA majors and over 15 top-5 AJGA results. As a high school senior in 2016, she was runner-up at the Canadian Women's Amateur Championship and won the Hawaii State High School Championship on the fourth playoff hole. Corpuz also played as an amateur at the 2016 LPGA Lotte Championship at Ko Olina Resort and carded a second-round 72, but missed the cut by three strokes. [5]
Corpuz played college golf at the University of Southern California from 2016 to 2021 where she led the USC Trojans women's golf team with a 71.57 stroke average and was named a first-team All-American. She played in the 2020 and 2021 Arnold Palmer Cup and also represented the United States at the 2021 Curtis Cup. [5]
The 2020 U.S. Women's Open was her third U.S. Open and her 16th USGA championship. Corpuz was the runner-up to Rachel Kuehn in the 2020 North and South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst Resort, losing in 19 holes.
She rose to a career high of 7th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. [6]
Corpuz turned professional in 2021 and finished T16 at Q-School to earn LPGA Tour membership for 2022. In her rookie season, she made 17 cuts in 21 events and finished 41st in the Women's World Golf Rankings. She recorded three top-10 finishes including a runner-up finish at the ISPS Handa World Invitational and a third-place finish at Pelican Women's Championship. [4] [7]
In July 2023, Corpuz won the U.S. Women's Open by three strokes over Charley Hull and Jiyai Shin. She won $2 million, a record. It was her first LPGA Tour win. [8] She rose to a career high world ranking of #8. [9]
Legend |
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Major championships (1) |
Other LPGA Tour (0) |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runners-up | Winner's share ($) |
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1 | Jul 9, 2023 | U.S. Women's Open | 69-70-71-69=279 | −9 | 3 strokes | Charley Hull Jiyai Shin | 2,000,000 |
Year | Championship | 54 holes | Winning score | Margin | Runners-up |
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2023 | U.S. Women's Open | 1 shot deficit | −9 (69-70-71-69=279) | 3 strokes | Charley Hull, Jiyai Shin |
Results not in chronological order.
! Tournament | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Chevron Championship | T4 | T57 | |||||||
U.S. Women's Open | CUT | CUT | CUT | T24 | 1 | CUT | |||
Women's PGA Championship | T30 | T15 | T19 | ||||||
The Evian Championship | NT | CUT | T54 | T26 | |||||
Women's British Open | CUT | T6 | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied
Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
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Chevron Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
U.S. Women's Open | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
Women's PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
The Evian Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Women's British Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Totals | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 10 |
Year | Tournaments played | Cuts made* | Wins (Majors) | 2nd | 3rd | Top 10s | Best finish | Earnings ($) | Money list rank | Scoring average | Scoring rank |
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2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | MC | n/a | n/a | 75.75 | n/a |
2017 | Did not play | ||||||||||
2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | MC | n/a | n/a | 74.50 | n/a |
2019 | Did not play | ||||||||||
2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | MC | n/a | n/a | 77.00 | n/a |
2021 | Did not play | ||||||||||
2022 | 24 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 721,135 | 41 | 70.88 | 41 |
2023 | 24 | 19 | 1 (1) | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3,094,813 | 3 | 70.59 | 28 |
2024 | 25 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | T4 | 871,020 | 45 | 70.97 | 31 |
Totals | 73 (2022) | 57 (2022) | 1 (1) | 2 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 4,686,968 | 104 |
Official as of 2024 season [10] [11] [12]
*Includes matchplay and other tournaments without a cut.
Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.
Year | World ranking | Source |
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2022 | 48 | [13] |
2023 | 13 | [14] |
Amateur
Professional
Year | Total matches | Total W–L–H | Singles W–L–H | Foursomes W–L–H | Fourballs W–L–H | Points won | Points % |
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Career | 8 | 5–2–1 | 1–1–0 | 4–0–0 | 0–1–1 | 5.5 | 68.7 |
2023 | 4 | 2–1–1 | 0–1–0 lost to M. Stark 2&1 | 2–0–0 won w/ N. Korda 1 up won w/ N. Korda 5&3 | 0–0–1 halved w/ J. Kupcho | 2.5 | 62.5 |
2024 | 4 | 3–1–0 | 1–0–0 def. A. Nordqvist 4&3 | 2–0–0 won w/ N. Korda 3&2 won w/ N. Korda 1 up | 0–1–0 lost w/ L. Vu 2 dn | 3 | 75.0 |
Source: [6]
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'My mom is Korean and my dad is Filipino,' said Corpuz, who traces her roots to Ilocos through her father.