U.S. Women's Open
The U.S. Women's Open is one of 15 national golf championships conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA), is the oldest of the LPGA Tour's five major championships, which includes the Chevron Championship, Women's PGA Championship, ...
, played December 10–14 at
Champions Golf Club
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in
Houston
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,
Texas
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, having been postponed from its original date of June 4–7, 2020, on April 3, 2020 as a result of the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. It was played on both the Cypress Creek and Jackrabbit courses.
The U.S. Women's Open is the oldest of the five major championships and is the fourth of the 2020 season. It has the largest purse in women's golf at $5.5 million.
Kim A-lim won the tournament by birdieing the last three holes.
Qualifying and field
The championship is open to any female professional or amateur golfer with a USGA or
World Handicap System
A golf handicap is a numerical measure of a golfer's ability, or potential ability, that is used to enable players of different abilities to compete against one another. Better players are those with the lowest handicaps.
Historically, rules relat ...
index not exceeding 2.4. Players may usually qualify by competing in one of 24 36-hole qualifying tournaments held across the United States and at international sites in China, England, Japan, and South Korea. Many players are exempt from qualifying because of past performances in professional or amateur tournaments around the world.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the usual qualifying tournaments were canceled and the championship became "all-exempt" with amended criteria.
Exemption categories
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 16 who qualified in other categories are denoted by the tour they qualified.
;1. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open for the last ten years (2010–2019)
Lee Jeong-eun (2,9,15),
Ariya Jutanugarn
Ariya Jutanugarn (, , ; born 23 November 1995) is a Thai professional golfer who plays on the American-based LPGA Tour. She was born in Bangkok. She is the first golfer, male or female, from Thailand to win a major championship. She became the nu ...
Brittany Lang
Brittany Lang (born August 22, 1985) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She has won one major championship, the 2016 U.S. Women's Open.
Amateur career
Born in Richmond, Virginia and raised in McKinney, Texas, Lang ...
,
Chun In-gee
Chun In-gee (, born 10 August 1994), also known as In Gee Chun, is a South Korean professional golfer. She was born in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province. She is a three-time major champion, having won the 2015 U.S. Women's Open, the 2016 Evian C ...
(7,15),
Michelle Wie
Michelle Sung Wie West (; born October 11, 1989) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. At age 10, she became the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur championship. Wie also became the youngest winner of the ...
,
Inbee Park
Inbee Park (, or ; born 12 July 1988) is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour. She has been the number one ranked player in the Women's World Golf Rankings for four separate runs: April 201 ...
Ryu So-yeon
Ryu So-yeon (; ; born 29 June 1990), also known as So Yeon Ryu, is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and on the LPGA of Korea Tour.
She is a two-time major winner having won the 2011 U.S. Women's Open and the 2017 A ...
(2,5,15),
Paula Creamer
Paula Creamer (born August 5, 1986)''Current Biography Yearbook 2011''p. 128 is an American professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. As a professional, she has won 12 tournaments, including 10 LPGA Tour events. Creamer has been as high ...
;2. Ten lowest scorers and anyone tying for 10th place from the
2019 U.S. Women's Open
The 2019 U.S. Women's Open was the 74th U.S. Women's Open, played May 30 – June 2 at Country Club of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.
The U.S. Women's Open is the oldest of the five current major championships and the second of the 2 ...
Angel Yin
Angel Yin (born October 3, 1998) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.
Amateur career
Yin won the 7–8 year old Junior World Golf Championships, won the California Women's Amateur Championship as a 12 year old ...
(15),
Lexi Thompson
Alexis Noel Thompson (born February 10, 1995) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. At age 12 in 2007 U.S. Women's Open, 2007, she was the youngest golfer ever to qualify to play in the U.S. Women's Open, since broken b ...
(9,10,15),
Gerina Piller
Gerina Michelle Mendoza Piller (born March 29, 1985) is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the LPGA Tour. She turned pro in 2007 following a decorated career as a collegiate golfer at the University of Texas El Paso. In 2009, ...
,
Mamiko Higa
Mamiko Higa (born 11 October 1993) is a Japanese professional golfer.
Amateur career
Higa represented Japan at the 2010 Asian Games. She finished 8th in the individual competition and 4th in the team competition.
Professional career
Higa play ...
Céline Boutier
Céline Boutier (born 10 November 1993) is a French professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. She has multiple wins on both tours including one major, the 2023 Evian Championship.
Amateur career
Boutier won se ...
Jessica Korda
Jessica Regina Korda (, born February 27, 1993) is a Czech-American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour.
Amateur career
Korda was a member of the 2009 U.S. Junior Solheim Cup and the 2010 U.S. Curtis Cup teams. As an amateur, she w ...
(9,15)
;3. Winner of the 2019
U.S. Women's Amateur
The U.S. Women's Amateur, also known as the United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship, is the leading golf tournament in the United States for female amateur golfers. It is played annually and is one of the 13 United States national golf ch ...
U.S. Girls' Junior
The U.S. Girls' Junior is one of the fifteen U.S. national golf championships organized by the United States Golf Association. It is open to amateur girls who are under 19 on the last day of the competition and have a USGA handicap index of 9.4 o ...
and
U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur
The U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur is one of thirteen United States Golf Association national championships. First played in 1987, it provides amateur women over the age of 25 an opportunity to compete for a national championship. Entrants must have a g ...
, and finalist from the 2019
U.S. Women's Amateur
The U.S. Women's Amateur, also known as the United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship, is the leading golf tournament in the United States for female amateur golfers. It is played annually and is one of the 13 United States national golf ch ...
Albane Valenzuela
Albane Ines Marie Valenzuela (born 17 December 1997) is a Swiss professional golfer and a three-time Olympian. She was born in New York City to a Mexican father and French mother. She became a Swiss citizen at age 14.
Amateur career
Valenzuela ...
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;5. Winners of the
ANA Inspiration
The Chevron Championship is a professional women's golf tournament. An event on the LPGA Tour, it is one of the tour's five major championships, and has traditionally been the first of the season since its elevation to major status in 1983. Sinc ...
for the last five years (2016–2020)
Ko Jin-young
Ko Jin-young (;, born 7 July 1995), also known as Jin Young Ko, is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. By age 22 years, she had won 10 times on the LPGA of Korea Tour, was second at the 2015 Ricoh Women's British Ope ...
(7,9,10,15),
Pernilla Lindberg
Pernilla Anna Lindberg (born 13 July 1986) is a Swedish professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour. Her only professional win to date came at the ANA Inspiration, a major championship,
Early life
Lindberg was ...
,
Lydia Ko
Dame Lydia Ko (born 24 April 1997) is a New Zealand professional golfer, member of the LPGA Hall of Fame, and the reigning Olympic champion. She first reached number one in the Women's World Golf Rankings on 2 February 2015 at of age, makin ...
(7,15)
;6. Winners of the
Women's PGA Championship
The Women's PGA Championship (branded as the KPMG Women's PGA Championship for sponsorship reasons) is a women's professional golf tournament. First held in 1955, it is one of five majors on the LPGA Tour. It is not recognized as a major by the ...
for the last five years (2015–2019)
Hannah Green (9,10,15),
Danielle Kang
Danielle Grace Kang (born October 20, 1992) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour. As an amateur, she won the U.S. Women's Amateur twice, in 2010 and 2011. She won the 2017 KPMG Women's PGA Championship, an LPGA ...
(9,10,15),
Brooke Henderson
Brooke Mackenzie Henderson (born 10 September 1997) is a Canadian professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.
Henderson was named the Canadian Press female athlete of the year for 2015, 2017 and 2018. She won her first Women's major golf championship ...
(9,10,15)
;7. Winners of the
Evian Championship
The Evian Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as The Amundi Evian Championship, is a women's professional golf tournament in France, played at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains. It was originally held in June, move ...
for the last five years (2015–2019)
Angela Stanford
Angela Gwen Stanford (born November 28, 1977) is an American professional golfer who currently competes on the LPGA Tour.
Amateur career
Born and raised in Saginaw, Texas, Stanford won the Fort Worth Girls Championship four times (1993–1996), ...
,
Anna Nordqvist
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;8. Winners of the
Women's British Open
The Women's Open (originally known as the Women's British Open, and still widely referred to by that name outside the UK) is a major championship in women's professional golf. It is recognised by both the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tou ...
for the last five years (2015–2019)
Hinako Shibuno
is a Japanese professional golfer who won the 2019 Women's British Open.
Early years
Shibuno was born in Okayama, Japan on 15 November 1998. Her father was a discus thrower and her mother was a javelin thrower. She is the middle child of the ...
(10,16),
Georgia Hall
Georgia Kelly Hall (born 12 April 1996) is an English professional golfer. She plays on the Ladies European Tour, and the LPGA Tour. She has won one major, the 2018 Women's British Open.
Hall won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship ...
(15),
In-Kyung Kim
Kim In-Kyung, also called In-Kyung Kim and I. K. Kim (born 13 June 1988), is a South Korean professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.
Amateur career
Kim was a member of the Korean National Team in 2003 and 2004 and won three tou ...
(15)
;9. Top 30 points leaders from the 2019 LPGA Race to the CME Globe final points standings
Minjee Lee
Minjee Lee (born 27 May 1996) is an Australian professional golfer from Perth. She became the number one ranked amateur golfer in February 2014 after winning the Oates Victorian Open, remaining number one until turning professional in Septembe ...
(15),
Nelly Korda
Nelly Korda (born July 28, 1998) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour, where she has won 15 times and reached number one in the Women's World Golf Rankings. Korda won the Olympic gold medal at the women's individual g ...
(10,15),
Kim Sei-young
Kim Sei-young (born 21 January 1993), also known as Sei Young Kim, is a South Korean professional golfer.
Kim plays on the LPGA of Korea Tour and the LPGA Tour. She has won five times on the LPGA of Korea Tour and twelve times on the LPGA Tour ...
(10,15),
Kim Hyo-joo
Kim Hyo-joo (; ; born 14 July 1995), also known as Hyo Joo Kim, is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the LPGA of Korea Tour. She won the 2014 Evian Championship while setting the record for lowest 18-hole score at a major with a 6 ...
(15),
M. J. Hur
Mi Jung "M.J." Hur (, born 5 December 1989) is a South Korean female professional golfer.
Hur played most of her amateur career in South Korea. In 2006, she received a sponsors exemption to play in the Hana Bank-KOLON Championship and made the m ...
(10,15),
Amy Yang
Amy Yang, also known as Yang Hee-Young (, born 28 July 1989) is a South Korean professional golfer, currently playing on the United States–based LPGA Tour and on the Ladies European Tour (LET).
Amateur career
Yang began playing golf at age 10 ...
(15),
Nasa Hataoka
is a Japanese professional golfer. She has won six times on the LPGA Tour and six times on the LPGA of Japan Tour.
Amateur career
Hataoka was born on 13 January 1999, named after the United States space program, NASA. As an amateur, she won the ...
(15),
Carlota Ciganda
Carlota Ciganda Machiñena (born 1 June 1990) is a professional golfer from Spain who plays on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. She won the LET's Order of Merit (money title) in her debut season in 2012, and was also named Player of ...
(15),
Brittany Altomare
Brittany Altomare (born November 19, 1990) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour. She finished runner-up in the 2017 Evian Championship, losing to Anna Nordqvist in a playoff. She had finished tied for third in ...
(15),
Shanshan Feng
Shanshan Feng (, ; born 5 August 1989) is a Chinese former professional golfer who previously played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She was the first player from China to become a member of the LPGA Tour, which she joined in 2008. Feng had 10 vic ...
(10,15),
Ji Eun-hee
Ji Eun-hee (; born 13 May 1986), also known as Eun-Hee Ji, is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She is also a member of the South Korean KLPGA. She was born in Gapyeong, South Korea.
LPGA career
Ji joine ...
(15),
Azahara Muñoz
Azahara Muñoz Guijarro (born 19 November 1987) is a Spanish professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour.
Amateur career
Muñoz was born in Málaga, Andalusia in southern Spain and had a successful amateur career in ...
(15),
Moriya Jutanugarn
Moriya Jutanugarn (; ; born 28 July 1994) is a Thai professional golfer.
In 2009, Jutanugarn became the first female to win the Duke of York Young Champions Trophy. In 2013, she was named LPGA Rookie of the Year. She has played on the LPGA Tou ...
(15),
Bronte Law
Bronte May Law (born 12 March 1995) is an English professional golfer. Her maiden LPGA Tour victory, her first win as a professional, came in May 2019 at the Pure Silk Championship in Virginia. Her second professional victory occurred in Octobe ...
(15),
Lizette Salas
Lizette Salas (born July 17, 1989) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.
Early life and education
Born and raised in Azusa, California, Salas graduated from Azusa High School in 2007 and went on to play college ...
(15),
Caroline Masson
Caroline Masson (born 14 May 1989) is a German professional golfer, currently playing on the Ladies European Tour (LET).
Amateur and college career
Born and raised in Gladbeck in North Rhine-Westphalia, Masson had a decorated amateur golf caree ...
Gaby López
Maria Gabriela López Butron (9 November 1993) is a Mexican professional golfer.
Amateur career
López played college golf at the University of Arkansas where she won three events and was individual runner-up at the 2015 NCAA Division I Champi ...
(10,15)
;10. Winners of LPGA co-sponsored events, whose victories are considered official, from the conclusion of the 2019 U.S. Women's Open to June 1, the originally scheduled start of the 2020 U.S. Women's Open
Cheyenne Knight,
Jang Ha-na
Jang Ha-na (born 2 May 1992), also known as Ha Na Jang, is a South Korean professional golfer.
Jang plays on the LPGA of Korea Tour where she has 15 wins and led the money list in 2013. From 2015 through 2017, she played on the LPGA Tour where s ...
(16),
Ai Suzuki
Ai Suzuki (born 9 May 1994) is a Japanese professional golfer.
Suzuki plays on the LPGA of Japan Tour where she has won 20 times including 7 times in 2019. In November 2019, she won three consecutive tournaments, including the Toto Japan Classi ...
(15,16),
Madelene Sagström
Madelene Maria Sagström (born 13 November 1992) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She won the 2020 Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio and was runner-up at the 2021 Women's British Open.
Early life
At 9, Sagströ ...
British Ladies Amateur
The Women's Amateur Championship, previously known as the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship, was founded in 1893 by the Ladies' Golf Union. It is organised by The R&A, which merged with the Ladies' Golf Union in 2017. Until the dawn of t ...
Emily Toy
Emily Toy (born c.1997) is an English professional golfer from Longdowns in Cornwall, winner of The Womens Amateur Championship in 2019.
Golf career
In July 2015, aged 17, Toy won the English Girls' Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Sher ...
;12. Winner of the 2019 Mark H. McCormack Medal (Women's World Amateur Golf Ranking)
'' Andrea Lee''
;13. Top 10 money leaders from the 2020 official LPGA money list, not otherwise exempt, through the close of entries on November 11, 2020
Cydney Clanton
Cydney Clanton (born July 18, 1989) is an American professional golfer who has played on the LPGA Tour and the Epson Tour. She has won three times on the Epson Tour and once on the LPGA Tour.
Amateur career
Clanton played college golf at Auburn ...
,
Perrine Delacour
Perrine Delacour (born 5 April 1994) is a French professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour.
Amateur career
After winning the 2011 French International Ladies Amateur Championship at 17 years of age, Delacour was a mem ...
,
Jodi Ewart Shadoff
Jodi Ewart Shadoff (born 7 January 1988) is an English professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and on the Ladies European Tour.
Early life
Ewart was born at Northallerton in North Yorkshire. Her family now lives in Middleham and is invol ...
,
Mina Harigae
Mina Harigae (born November 1, 1989) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.
As an amateur golfer, she won the 2007 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links. Harigae won the California Women's Amateur Championship for fo ...
Stacy Lewis
Stacy Lewis (born February 16, 1985) is an American professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She has won two major championships: the Kraft Nabisco Championship in 2011 and the Women's British Open in 2013. She was ranked number one in ...
,
Lin Xiyu
Lin Xiyu ( zh, 林希妤; born 25 February 1996), also known as Xi Yu Lin and by her English name Janet, is a Chinese professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She won the bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Professional career
Lin t ...
Kelly Tan
Kelly Tan (born 26 October 1993) is a Malaysian professional golfer who competes on the LPGA Tour.
Tan is a former member of the Malaysian junior national team.
Tan earned her LPGA Tour card for 2014 via qualifying school.
Tan qualified for t ...
,
Lindsey Weaver
Lindsey Kathryn Weaver-Wright (born September 16, 1993) is an American professional golfer and LPGA Tour member. She shot a 59 during the 2012 Ping Junior Interclub match to become the second female golfer in history to do so, first being Annika ...
;14. Top 5 money leaders from the 2020 official
Symetra Tour
The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour ...
money list through the close of entries on November 11, 2020
Ana Belac,
Fátima Fernández Cano
Fátima Fernández Cano (born 23 October 1995) is a Spanish professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour.
Early life, amateur and college career
Cano was born in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. As a junior player, Ca ...
Kim Kaufman
Kim Kaufman (born August 16, 1991) is an American professional golfer and LPGA Tour player. She was runner-up at the 2015 Blue Bay LPGA.
Early life, amateur and college career
Kaufman was born in Huron, South Dakota, and grew up in Clark, South ...
,
Frida Kinhult
Frida Mikaela Kinhult (born 25 September 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer. She rose to world number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in June 2019 and won the 2020 Symetra Tour Championship to graduate to the LPGA Tour.
Early life and ...
;15. Top 75 points leaders and ties from the
Rolex Rankings
The Women's World Golf Rankings, also known for sponsorship reasons as the Rolex Rankings, were introduced in February 2006. They are sanctioned by 12 women's golf tours and the organisations behind them: Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA ...
on March 16, 2020
Lim Hee-jeong
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Name
* Lim (Korean surname), a common Korean surname
* Lim (Chinese surname), Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew and Hainanese spelling of the Chinese family name "Lin"
* Christina Lim, Australian electrical engineer
* Lim Kimya (1 ...
(16),
Charley Hull
Charley Esmee Hull (born 20 March 1996) is an English professional golfer who has won tournaments on both the Ladies European Tour (LET) and the LPGA Tour.
Aged 9, Hull won the Ladies Golf Union Championship, playing against adults. She went o ...
,
Jiyai Shin
Jiyai Shin (; ; born 28 April 1988) is a former world No. 1 ranked South Korean professional golfer who primarily plays on the LPGA of Japan Tour. She previously played primarily on the LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Korea Tour (KLPGA). She has broke ...
(16),
Choi Hye-jin
Choi Hye-jin (; born 23 August 1999) is a South Korean professional golfer.
Amateur career
Choi represented South Korea at the 2014 Asian Games where she helped the team to a silver medal and finished fifth in the individual event. She help ...
Megan Khang
Megan Khang (born October 23, 1997) is an American professional golfer. She plays on the LPGA Tour and is the first player of Hmong descent to do so.
Khang's parents were refugees from the Vietnam War from Laos and came to the United States wit ...
,
Kristen Gillman
Kristen Gillman (born September 22, 1997) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour. As an amateur, she won the U.S. Women's Amateur twice, in 2014 and 2018.
Early life, college and amateur career
Gillman is one of t ...
Jennifer Kupcho
Jennifer Anne Kupcho (born May 14, 1997) is an American professional golfer.
Amateur career
As a junior at Wake Forest University, she was named the winner of the Honda Sports Award for golf. As a senior, Kupcho won the inaugural Augusta Nation ...
,
Amy Olson
Amy Olson née Anderson (born July 10, 1992) is an American former professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour from 2013 to 2023. She turned professional in 2013 after her collegiate career at North Dakota State University where she won an N ...
,
Park Min-ji
Park Min-ji (; born July 22, 1989) is a South Korean actress.
Filmography Film
Television series
References
External links
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*
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1989 births
Actresses from Seoul
Living people
People from Nowon District
Sou ...
Morgan Pressel
Morgan Pressel (born May 23, 1988) is an American professional golfer and golf commentator who played on the LPGA Tour. In 2001 U.S. Women's Open, 2001, as a 12-year-old, she became the youngest player to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open. She wa ...
,
Ahn Sun-ju
Ahn Sun-ju, or Sun-ju Ahn (, born 31 August 1987) is a South Korean professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA of Japan Tour. She led the LPGA of Japan Tour money list in 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2018.
Professional wins (35) LPGA Tour wins ...
,
Mone Inami
(born 29 July 1999) is a Japanese professional golfer. She plays on the LPGA of Japan Tour where she has 13 wins.
Inami competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. At those games, Inami shot a final round 65 and defeated Lydia Ko in a sudden-death pl ...
,
Nanna Koerstz Madsen
Nanna Koerstz Madsen (born 23 October 1994) is a Danish professional golfer who plays on the American LPGA Tour and maintains membership of the Ladies European Tour (LET). She won the 2022 Honda LPGA Thailand and made history becoming the first ...
Momoko Ueda
is a Japanese female professional golfer who in 2007 at the age of 21 became the youngest player in the history of the LPGA of Japan Tour (JLPGA) to finish first on the money list. She also played on the United States–based LPGA Tour for six y ...
Annie Park
Annie Park (born April 9, 1995) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. Park has one win on that tour, at the 2018 ShopRite LPGA Classic, and competed in the 2019 Solheim Cup. Previously, she was the 2013 NCAA individua ...
,
Minami Katsu
Minami Katsu (, born 1 July 1998) is a Japanese professional golfer. She is the youngest winner in the history of the LPGA of Japan Tour when she won the KKT Cup Vantelin Ladies Open as an amateur on 20 April 2014 at age 15.
Early life
Katsu wa ...
,
Nicole Broch Larsen
Nicole Broch Estrup () (born 14 May 1993) is a Danish professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour (LET).
Broch Estrup started playing golf at the age of nine. She reached 11th on World Amateur Golf Ranking in 2012 ...
,
Austin Ernst
Austin Ernst (born January 31, 1992) is an American professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.
Amateur career
Ernst was born in Greenville, South Carolina. She played two years for the LSU Tigers, where she won three events including the individual ...
Chella Choi
Woon-jung "Chella" Choi (born 25 August 1990) is a South Korean professional golfer.
Choi played on the Duramed Futures Tour in 2008 with a best finish of T-2 at the Bright House Networks Open. She earned her 2009 LPGA Tour card at LPGA Final ...
Ladies European Tour
The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1978. Most of the players on the tour are European, with members from more than 40 countries internationally. Despite its name, the tour also has tournaments in A ...
Esther Henseleit
Esther Henseleit (born 14 January 1999) is a German professional golfer and member of the Ladies European Tour and LPGA Tour. She won the silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Amateur career
Henseleit attended Freie Waldorfschule Ol ...
(LET),
Marianne Skarpnord
Marianne Skarpnord (born 11 February 1986) is a Norwegian professional golfer playing on the Ladies European Tour.
Amateur career
As a junior, Skarpnord was considered one of the biggest talents in Norwegian golf. In 2003, she won the Girls A ...
China LPGA Tour
The China LPGA Tour is a professional golf tour for women organized by the China Ladies Professional Golfers' Association.
Founded in late 2008, the China LPGA Tour hosted six professional events in 2009, eight events the following year, and 12 ...
*'' Zhang Weiwei, Liu Yan and Du Mohan did not play''
;18. The top 2 players, not otherwise exempt, in the top 10 and ties of the 2020
Walmart NW Arkansas Championship
The Walmart NW Arkansas Championship is an annual women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour in Rogers, Arkansas, north of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Fayetteville. First played in 2007 LPGA Tour, 2007, all editions of the tournament have ...
,
Cambia Portland Classic
The Standard Portland Classic is a women's professional golf tournament in Oregon on the LPGA Tour. Founded in 1972, the annual event in the Portland area is the oldest continuous event on the LPGA Tour. Tournament Golf Foundation has owned ...
,
ShopRite LPGA Classic
The ShopRite LPGA Classic, known in full for sponsorship reasons as The ShopRite LPGA Classic Presented by Acer, is a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour in Galloway, New Jersey, near Atlantic City. It took place annually fro ...
, and the top 3 players, not otherwise exempt, in the top 10 and ties of the
KPMG Women's PGA Championship
The Women's PGA Championship (branded as the KPMG Women's PGA Championship for sponsorship reasons) is a women's professional golf tournament. First held in 1955, it is one of five majors on the LPGA Tour. It is not recognized as a major by the ...
Ashleigh Buhai
Ashleigh Ann Buhai (née Simon, born 11 May 1989) is a South African professional golfer who won the 2022 Women's Open, one of the major championships in women's golf.
Amateur career
Buhai had a successful amateur career. She was the younges ...
,
Katherine Kirk
Katherine Kirk (born 26 February 1982) is a professional golfer from Australia, currently playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the ALPG Tour. She played under her maiden name, Katherine Hull, until her marriage to Tom Kirk on 2 August 2012 a ...
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Yealimi Noh
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Linn Grant
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Round summaries
First round
''Thursday, December 10, 2020''
JR denotes player played her round on the Jackrabbit course.
CC denotes player played her round on the Cypress Creek course.
Second round
''Friday, December 11, 2020''
JR denotes player played her round on the Jackrabbit course.
CC denotes player played her round on the Cypress Creek course.
Third round
''Saturday, December 12, 2020''
''Note: The third and fourth rounds were played on the Cypress Creek course.''
Final round
''Sunday, December 13 and Monday, December 14, 2020''
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U.S. Women's Open
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U.S. Women's Open
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U.S. Women's Open
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