2023 U.S. Women's Open

2023 U.S. Women's Open
Tournament information
DatesJuly 6–9, 2023
LocationPebble Beach, California, U.S.
36°34′05″N 121°57′00″W / 36.568°N 121.950°W / 36.568; -121.950
Course(s)Pebble Beach Golf Links
Organized byUSGA
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
United States Allisen Corpuz
279 (−9)
Location map
Pebble Beach Golf Links is located in the United States
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Pebble Beach Golf Links is located in California
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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]

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

Venue

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Main article: Pebble Beach Golf Links
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

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Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Yards 344 509 384 308 187 496 107 395 437 3,167 429 367 173 391 542 376 374 175 515 3,342 6,509
Par 4 5 4 4 3 5 3 4 4 36 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 3 5 36 72

Field

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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

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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][a]

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

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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]

Date Location Venue Field Spots Qualifiers[a] Ref
May 9 Naples, Florida The Club of Mediterra 69 2 Lindy Duncan, Brooke Matthews
May 9 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Shannopin Country Club 54 2 Amelia Garvey, Angela Zhang (a)
May 15 Coquitlam, Canada Vancouver Golf Club 58 2 Lauren Kim (a), Gabriela Ruffels [15]
May 15 Atlanta, Georgia Druid Hills Golf Club 78 2 Sarah Edwards (a), Benedetta Moresco (a) [15]
May 15 Westfield, New Jersey Echo Lake Country Club 81 4 Haeji Kang, Annie Park, Jenny Shin, Natthakritta Vongtaveelap [15]
May 17 Alexandria, Virginia Belle Haven Country Club 72 4 Jaravee Boonchant, María Fassi, Ruixin Liu, Yin Xiaowen [16]
May 22 Novato, California Marin Country Club 75 2 Huang Ting-hsuan (a), Dewi Weber [17]
May 22 Valencia, California Valencia Country Club 74 2 Zoe Campos (a), Anna Davis (a)
May 22 Bradenton, Florida Bradenton Country Club 71 2 Pernilla Lindberg, Beatrice Wallin [18]
May 22 Honolulu, Hawaii Oahu Country Club 46 1 Marissa Chow
May 22 Mendota Heights, Minnesota Somerset Country Club 46 2 Amy Olson, Bailey Tardy
May 24 St. Louis, Missouri Bellerive Country Club 78 2 Jing Yan, Sophie Linder (a)
May 24 Galveston, Texas Galveston Country Club 68 2 Dottie Ardina, Aline Krauter [19]
May 25 Carrollton, Texas Indian Creek Golf Club (Creek Course) 75 2 Maddison Hinson-Tolchard (a), Farah O'Keefe (a)
May 29 Wanze, Belgium Golf Club de Naxhelet 68 3 Manon De Roey, Alice Hewson, Emma Spitz
May 29 Chiba Prefecture, Japan Boso Country Club (East/West Courses) 123 5 Akie Iwai (18), Aya Kinoshita, Kana Mikashima, Miyu Sato, Hana Wakimoto
May 30 Scottsdale, Arizona Gainey Ranch Golf Club 68 2 Julia Misemer (a), Grace Summerhays (a)
May 31 Greensboro, North Carolina Starmount Forest Country Club 70 2 Emilia Migliaccio (a), Haru Nomura
May 31 Columbus, Ohio Ohio State University Golf Club (Scarlet Course) 77 2 Teresa Toscano Borrero, Charlotte Thomas
Jun 1 Broomfield, Colorado The Broadlands Golf Course 65 2 Sadie Englemann (a), Megan Propeck (a)
Jun 5 Rancho Santa Fe, California Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club 64 2 Amari Avery (a), Jeneath Wong (a)
Jun 5 San Mateo, California The Peninsula Golf & Country Club 72 2 Áine Donegan (a), Kelly Xu (a)
Jun 5 Woodburn, Oregon OGA Golf Course 70 2 Minori Nagano (a), Ayako Uehara
Jun 7 Jupiter, Florida The Club at Admirals Cove (North/West Courses) 67 2 Laura Sluman, Therese Warner
Jun 7 Palatine, Illinois Palatine Hills Golf Course 67 2 Milagros Chaves, Mackenzie Hahn
Jun 7 Duxbury, Massachusetts Duxbury Yacht Club 72 3 Celeste Dao (a), Daniela Darquea, Perrine Delacour

Alternates who gained entry

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

Round summaries

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First round

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Thursday, July 6, 2023

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

Second round

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Friday, July 7, 2023

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

Third round

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Saturday, July 8, 2023

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

Final round

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Sunday, July 9, 2023

Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1 United States Allisen Corpuz 69-70-71-69=279 −9 2,000,000
T2 England Charley Hull 73-72-71-66=282 −6 969,231
South Korea Jiyai Shin 71-73-70-68=282
T4 Japan Nasa Hataoka 69-74-66-76=285 −3 482,136
United States Bailey Tardy 69-68-75-73=285
T6 Japan Ayaka Furue 74-70-73-69=286 −2 369,403
South Korea Kim Hyo-joo 68-71-73-74=286
8 South Korea Ryu Hae-ran 69-72-73-74=288 E 313,713
T9 Sweden Maja Stark 72-73-72-72=289 +1 272,355
United States Rose Zhang 74-71-72-72=289

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c (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.

References

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  1. ^ Stewart, Keith (July 5, 2023). "U.S. Women's Open Preview: History Will Not Repeat Itself At Pebble Beach". LPGA. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "2023 U.S. Women's Open – Course". USGA. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
  3. ^ Shefter, David. "Fast Facts for 2023 U.S. Women's Open". USGA. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
  4. ^ Nichols, Beth Ann (May 2, 2023). "Annika Sorenstam accepts special exemption into 2023 U.S. Women's Open at Pebble Beach". Golfweek. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
  5. ^ Dar, Suhaib Bashir (May 3, 2023). "In a First Time For Women's Golf, US Open to Script Massive History, Marking a Special Return For LPGA Legend Annika Sorenstam". Essentially Sports. Retrieved May 9, 2023.
  6. ^ Uggetti, Paolo (July 9, 2023). "Allisen Corpuz wins U.S. Women's Open at Pebble Beach". ESPN.
  7. ^ "Pebble Beach Welcomes the 78th U.S. Women's Open Championship". Pebble Beach Company. Retrieved May 9, 2023.
  8. ^ Paisley, Kent (May 5, 2023). "Pebble Beach is hosting the U.S. Women's Open, so the USGA predictably breaks record for number of entries". Australian Golf Digest. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
  9. ^ Kelly, Todd (July 5, 2023). "2023 U.S. Women's Open has $11 million total purse, $2 million to winner". Golfweek. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
  10. ^ "Currently Exempt Players for 78th U.S. Women's Open". USGA. February 8, 2023. Retrieved May 9, 2023.
  11. ^ Schlabach, Mark (May 26, 2023). "Stanford women's golf star Zhang turns pro". ESPN. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
  12. ^ a b c d e f Nichols, Beth Ann. "Jessica Korda one of three exempt players to withdraw from 2023 U.S. Women's Open at Pebble Beach". Golfweek. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
  13. ^ "2023 U.S. Women's Open Qualifying Results". USGA. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
  14. ^ "U.S. Women's Open qualifying: Who made it to Pebble Beach". Golf Channel. June 8, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
  15. ^ a b c Nichols, Beth Ann (May 16, 2023). "Gabriela Ruffels, Jenny Shin, Annie Park and two Alabama teammates among those who qualified on Monday for historic U.S. Women's Open at Pebble Beach". Golfweek. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
  16. ^ "'Yan'tastic golf earns medalist honors at the US Women's Open qualifier". Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association. May 25, 2023. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
  17. ^ "Northern California, 2023 U.S. Women's Open Qualifying Results". Blue Golf. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  18. ^ Åsgård, Olof (May 23, 2023). "Lindberg och Wallin klara för U.S. Women's Open" [Lindberg and Wallin ready for the U.S. Women’s Open]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  19. ^ Leonard, Gean (May 25, 2023). "Galveston Country Club hosts US Women's Open golf qualifier". The Daily News. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
  20. ^ a b c d e f g h i Kellam, Sarah (June 28, 2023). "Alternates Added to U.S. Women's Open Field". LPGA.
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