2001 LPGA Championship | |
Dates: | June 21–24, 2001 |
Location: | Wilmington, Delaware |
Course: | DuPont Country Club |
Tour: | LPGA Tour |
Par: | 71 |
Field: | 144 players, 73 after cut |
Format: | Stroke play - 72 holes |
Cut: | 145 (+3) |
Purse: | $1.5 million |
Winners Share: | $225,000 |
Champion: | Karrie Webb |
Score: | 270 (−14) |
Previous: | 2000 |
Next: | 2002 |
Map: | USA#USA Delaware |
Map Label: | DuPont CC |
Map Relief: | yes |
Coordinates: | 39.789°N -75.564°W |
The 2001 LPGA Championship was the 47th LPGA Championship, played June 21–24 at DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware. This was the third of four major championships on the LPGA Tour in 2001.
Karrie Webb won her only LPGA Championship, two strokes ahead of runner-up Laura Diaz, and completed the career It was her second consecutive major win, as she also took the U.S. Women's Open earlier in the month.
Webb, age 26, became the fifth and youngest woman to win the career slam, passing Mickey Wright, who completed hers at age 27 It was the fourth of Webb's seven major titles. With a 7-under 64 on Friday, she set the scoring record at the LPGA Championship at
The DuPont Country Club hosted this championship for eleven consecutive seasons, from 1994 through 2004.
Sunday, June 24, 2001
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |||
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1 | Karrie Webb | 67-64-70-69=270 | −14 | 225,000 | |||
2 | Laura Diaz | 67-71-66-68=272 | −12 | 139,639 | |||
align=center rowspan=2 | T3 | Maria Hjorth | 71-67-66-70=274 | align=center rowspan=2 | −10 | align=center rowspan=2 | 90,577 |
Wendy Ward | 65-69-71-69=274 | ||||||
5 | Annika Sörenstam | 68-69-71-67=275 | −9 | 64,157 | |||
align=center rowspan=2 | T6 | Laura Davies | 67-68-70-71=276 | align=center rowspan=2 | −8 | align=center rowspan=2 | 48,684 |
Becky Iverson | 66-73-67-70=276 | ||||||
8 | Mi Hyun Kim | 70-70-68-69=277 | −7 | 39,250 | |||
9 | Helen Alfredsson | 68-66-74-70=278 | −6 | 35,476 | |||
align=center rowspan=2 | T10 | Michele Redman | 69-66-73-71=279 | align=center rowspan=2 | −5 | align=center rowspan=2 | 30,245 |
Maggie Will | 68-74-67-70=279 |