2002 U.S. Women's Open Explained

2002 U.S. Women's Open
Dates:	July 4–7, 2002
Location:	Hutchinson, Kansas
Course:	Prairie Dunes Country Club
Tour:	LPGA Tour
Par:	70
Yardage:	^[1]
Field:	156 players, 69 after cut
Cut:	149 (+9)
Purse:	$3.0 million
Winners Share:	$535,000
Champion:	Juli Inkster
Score:	276 (−4)
Previous:	2001
Next:	2003

The 2002 U.S. Women's Open was the 57th U.S. Women's Open, held July 4–7 in Kansas at Prairie Dunes Country Club, northeast of Hutchinson, about forty miles (65 km) northwest of Wichita.

Juli Inkster won her second U.S. Women's Open, two strokes ahead of runner-up Annika Sörenstam, the 54-hole leader.^[2] Inkster, 42, shot a final round 66 (−4) to gain her seventh and final major title. She joined Babe Zaharias as the only women to win two majors after age

This was the first purse of $3 million at the U.S. Women's Open, it had tripled in the seven years since 1995, the first seven-figure purse.

Course layout

See main article: article and Prairie Dunes Golf Club.

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	401	142	321	157	405	372	512	412	399	3,121	160	437	363	387	342	175	400	500	382	3,146	6,267
Par	4	3	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	35	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	4	35	70

Source:^[1]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, July 4, 2002

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1		Laura Diaz	67	−3
Juli Inkster
Shani Waugh
4		Kim Saiki	68	−2
T5		Lorie Kane	69	−1
Catriona Matthew
T7	Audra Burks	70	E
Brandie Burton
Jackie Gallagher-Smith
Pamela Kerrigan
Kelli Kuehne
Mhairi McKay
Cindy Schreyer
Annika Sörenstam
Sherri Steinhauer

Source:^{[3] [4]}

Second round

Friday, July 5, 2002

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1		Laura Diaz	67-72=139	−1
Juli Inkster	67-72=139
Annika Sörenstam	70-69=139
T4	Michele Redman	71-69=140	E
Shani Waugh	67-73=140
6	Jill McGill	71-70=141	+1
T7	Jenna Daniels	72-70=142	+2
Michelle Ellis	71-71=142
T9	Stephanie Keever	72-71=143	+3
Janice Moodie	71-72=143
Charlotta Sörenstam	73-70=143

Source:^[5]

Third round

Saturday, July 6, 2002

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Annika Sörenstam	70-69-69=208	−2
T2	Juli Inkster	67-72-71=210	E
Jill McGill	71-70-69=210
4	Shani Waugh	67-73-71=211	+1
5	Michele Redman	71-69-73=213	+3
6	Janice Moodie	71-72-71=214	+4
T7	Lynnette Brooky	73-73-69=215	+5
Lorie Kane	69-77-69=215
Carin Koch	73-72-70=215
T10	Laura Davies	75-73-68=216	+6
Laura Diaz	67-72-77=216
Susan Ginter-Brooker	74-72-70=216
Stephanie Keever	72-71-73=216
Mi-Hyun Kim	74-72-70=216
Mhairi McKay	70-75-71=216
Liselotte Neumann	72-74-70=216

Source:^[6]

Final round

Sunday, July 7, 2002

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Juli Inkster	67-72-71-66=276	−4	535,000
2	Annika Sörenstam	70-69-69-70=278	−2	315,000
3	Shani Waugh	67-73-71-72=283	+3	202,568
4	Raquel Carriedo	75-71-72-66=284	+4	141,219
5	Se Ri Pak	74-75-68-68=285	+5	114,370
6	Mhairi McKay	70-75-71-70=286	+6	101,421
align=center rowspan=5	T7	Beth Daniel	71-76-71-69=287	align=center rowspan=5	+7	align=center rowspan=5	78,015
Janice Moodie	71-72-71-73=287
Jennifer Rosales	73-72-74-68=287
Kelli Kuehne	70-76-72-69=287
Laura Diaz	67-72-77-71=287

Source:^[4]

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	3	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	4
Inkster	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−4	−4
Sörenstam	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−2	−1	−2	−2
Waugh	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	+1	+3	+3	+2	+3	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3
Carriedo	+7	+6	+5	+5	+4	+4	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4
Pak	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+5	+6	+7	+7	+7	+7	+7	+7	+6	+6	+6	+5	+5
McKay	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+5	+6	+7	+6	+5	+6	+6	+6	+6	+7	+6	+6
Moodie	+4	+5	+4	+6	+6	+5	+4	+4	+4	+5	+5	+4	+5	+5	+5	+6	+6	+7
McGill	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	+1	+1	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+6	+8	+8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Double Eagle

Eagle -->

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+

Source:^[4]

External links

• • U.S. Women's Open - past champions - 2002
• Prairie Dunes Country Club

38.091°N -97.848°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2002 U.S. Women's Open Championship - Course Summary - All Rounds . USGA . July 7, 2002. June 29, 2013.
2. News: Sorenstam takes two-stroke lead at Open . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon). Associated Press . July 7, 2002 . 7G.
3. News: Scoreboard - Golf: Women's Open . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . July 5, 2002 . C-9.
4. Web site: 2002 U.S. Women's Open Championship - Round 4 Full Leaderboard . USGA . July 7, 2002. June 29, 2013.
5. News: U.S. Women's Open . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington). July 6, 2002 . C6 .
6. News: USGA - U.S. Women's Open . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon). July 7, 2002 . 8G .