| 2016 U.S. Women's Open | |
| Dates: | July 7–10, 2016 |
| Location: | San Martin, California |
| Course: | CordeValle Golf Club |
| Org: | USGA |
| Tour: | LPGA Tour |
| Par: | 72 |
| Yardage: | [1] |
| Field: | 156 players, 72 after cut |
| Cut: | 148 (+4) |
| Purse: | $4.5 million |
| Winners Share: | $810,000 |
| Champion: |  Brittany Lang |
| Score: | 282 (−6), playoff |
| Previous: | 2015 |
| Next: | 2017 |
The 2016 U.S. Women's Open was the 71st U.S. Women's Open, held July 7–10 at CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin, California, southeast of San Jose.
The U.S. Women's Open is the oldest of the five current major championships and the third of the 2016 season. It has the largest purse in women's golf at $4.5 million, and was televised by Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports.
Brittany Lang won her first major title in a playoff over Anna Nordqvist.[2]
The championship was open to any female professional or amateur golfer with a USGA handicap index not exceeding 2.4. Players qualified by competing in one of twenty 36-hole qualifying tournaments held at sites across the United States and at international sites in China, England, Japan, and South Korea. Additional players were exempt from qualifying because of past performances in professional or amateur tournaments around the world. The USGA received a record 1,855 entries for the championship.[3]
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 13 who qualified in other categories are denoted with the tour by which they qualified.[4]
Additional players qualified through sectional qualifying tournaments taking place in May and June at sites in the United States, China, South Korea, England, and Japan.[7]
May 9 at The Home Course, DuPont, Washington
Naomi Eun Young Ko (a)
May 16 at Cheonan, South Korea
Ryu Hae-ran (a)
Choi Hye-jin (a)
May 16 at Bradenton Country Club, Bradenton, Florida
May 16 at Butler Country Club, Butler, Pennsylvania
Bailey Tardy (a)
Nannette Hill
May 16 at Pebble Creek Golf Club, Becker, Minnesota
Jing Yan
May 16 at Shady Oaks Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas
Su-Hyun Oh (later qualified in category 16)
Hannah Wood (a)
May 16 at Terravita Golf & Country Club, Scottsdale, Arizona
Marissa Chow (a)
Spencer Heller
May 16 at The Heritage Golf Course at Westmoor, Westminster, Colorado
Jennifer Kupcho (a)
Yu Sang Hou (a)
May 16 at Waialae Country Club, Honolulu, Hawaii
Allisen Corpuz (a)
May 17 at TPC at The Woodlands (Player Course), The Woodlands, Texas
Liv Cheng
May 23 at Quail Ridge Country Club (South Course), Boynton Beach, Florida
Sandra Angulo Minarro
Mika Liu (a)
May 23 at Dunwoody Country Club, Dunwoody, Georgia
Jackie Stoelting
May 23 at Hermitage Country Club, Manakin-Sabot, Virginia
Lee Lopez
May 23 at Oak Park Country Club, River Grove, Illinois
Erica Shepherd (a)
May 24 at Westwood Country Club, St. Louis, Missouri
Kasey Petty
Anna Hack (a)
May 24 at Canoe Brook Country Club (North Course), Summit, New Jersey
May 25 at Buckinghamshire, England
Pamela Pretswell
May 25 at Carolina Trace Country Club (Lake Course), Sanford, North Carolina
Paula Hurtado
May 26 at Shanghai, China
Yan Liu (a)
May 30 at Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Erina Hara
Emi Sato
Ayaka Matsumori
Chika Sawada (a)
May 31 at Twin Hills Country Club, Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Sue Kim
May 31 at Industry Hills Golf Club (Eisenhower Course), City Of Industry, California
Alexandra Kaui (a)
May 31 at Green Valley Country Club, Fairfield, California
Taylor Kim
Julie Yang
June 2 at Goose Creek Golf Club, Mira Loma, California
Robynn Ree (a)
Karah Sanford (a)
June 3 at Sugar Mill Country Club, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Rinko Mitsunaga (a)
Sandra Changkija
The following players were added to the field before the start of the tournament when spots reserved for exemptions in various categories were not used, and to replace players who withdrew from the tournament.
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| Round | Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Par | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 72 | ||
| 1 | Yards | 396 | 426 | 523 | 210 | 352 | 371 | 410 | 183 | 561 | 3,432 | 407 | 360 | 191 | 382 | 429 | 471 | 166 | 418 | 528 | 3,352 | 6,784 | |
| 2 | Yards | 402 | 423 | 525 | 179 | 347 | 374 | 401 | 155 | 553 | 3,359 | 408 | 349 | 183 | 375 | 435 | 471 | 168 | 409 | 537 | 3,355 | 6,694 | |
| 3 | Yards | 381 | 428 | 518 | 160 | 349 | 372 | 405 | 164 | 549 | 3,326 | 407 | 363 | 202 | 389 | 438 | 483 | 177 | 413 | 517 | 3,389 | 6,715 | |
| 4 | Yards | 400 | 421 | 494 | 214 | 360 | 381 | 416 | 147 | 572 | 3,405 | 399 | 358 | 183 | 384 | 435 | 485 | 120 | 426 | 523 | 3,313 | 6,718 |
Source:[1]
Thursday, July 7, 2016
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 64 | −8 | |
| T2 | 67 | −5 | |
 Minjee Lee | |||
 Amy Yang | |||
| T5 | 68 | −4 | |
 Anna Nordqvist | |||
 Kelly Tan | |||
| T8 | 69 | −3 | |
 Moriya Jutanugarn | |||
| Sydnee Michaels |
Friday, July 8, 2016
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 70-66=136 | −8 | |
| T2 | 64-74=138 | −6 | |
| 67-71=138 | |||
| T4 | 73-66=139 | −5 | |
| 70-69=139 | |||
| T6 | 69-71=140 | −4 | |
| 71-69=140 | |||
| 70-70=140 | |||
| 68-72=140 | |||
| 10 | 72-69=141 | −3 | |
| 71-70=141 | |||
| 69-72=141 | |||
| 70-71=141 | |||
| 71-70=141 |
Saturday, July 9, 2016
| Place | Player | Score | To par | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 73-66-70=209 | −7 | |||
| align=center rowspan=2 | T2 | 69-71-70=210 | align=center rowspan=2 | −6 | |
| 70-66-74=210 | |||||
| align=center rowspan=2 | T4 | 68-75-68=211 | align=center rowspan=2 | −5 | |
| 67-71-73=211 | |||||
| 6 | 71-70-71=212 | −4 | |||
| 7 | 71-69-73=213 | −3 | |||
| align=center rowspan=7 | T8 | 70-75-69=214 | align=center rowspan=7 | −2 | |
| 67-75-72=214 | |||||
| 64-74-76=214 | |||||
| 71-74-69=214 | |||||
| 71-72-71=214 | |||||
| 70-69-75=214 | |||||
| 71-72-71=214 |
Sunday, July 10, 2016
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center rowspan=2 | T1 | 68-75-68-71=282 | align=center rowspan=2 | −6 | Playoff | |
| 68-74-73-67=282 | ||||||
| T3 | 69-71-70-74=284 | −4 | 213,638 | |||
| 73-66-70-75=284 | ||||||
| 70-66-74-74=284 | ||||||
| 67-71-73-73=284 | ||||||
| 7 | 71-74-69-71=285 | −3 | 140,590 | |||
| T8 | 67-75-72-72=286 | −2 | 115,705 | |||
| 70-72-74-70=286 | ||||||
| 70-71-75-70=286 |
Final round
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Par | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Lang | −6 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −7 | −6 | −6 | |
| Nordqvist | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | |
| Ji | −6 | −5 | −5 | −4 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −4 | −4 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −4 | |
 Ko | −7 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −8 | −8 | −7 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −4 | −4 | −3 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | |
| S. Park | −6 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −5 | −5 | −4 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −4 | |
| Yang | −6 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −3 | −4 | |
| Lewis | −2 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −3 | −3 | |
| Kerr | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1 | E | −1 | −1 | −1 | −2 | |
| Piller | E | −1 | −1 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −3 | −2 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | |
| Shadoff | E | E | −1 | −1 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | |
| M. Lee | −2 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −4 | −5 | −5 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −3 | −3 | −2 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | |
| Stanford | −4 | −4 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | |
| Jutanugarn | −2 | −2 | E | E | E | E | E | −1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | E | E | E | E | |
| Kang | −1 | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | E | +1 | +1 | E |
| Double Eagle --> | Eagle | Birdie | Bogey | Double bogey | Triple bogey+ --> |
The three-hole aggregate playoff was held on the final three holes, and any additional play in sudden-death was to occur on the final hole. Both players made pars on the first two holes, but it was soon determined that Nordqvist had slightly moved sand prior to her approach shot from the fairway bunker on 17, a two-stroke penalty (rule 13-4b). The players were told of the penalty by a rules official midway through the par-5 final hole, after Nordqvist's third shot but before Lang's.[2]
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brittany Lang | 3-4-5=12 | E | 810,000 | |
| 2 | 3-6-6=15 | +3 | 486,000 |
| Hole | 16 | 17 | 18 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Par | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Lang | E | E | E | |
| Nordqvist | E | +2 | +3 |