2020 Women's PGA Championship explained

2020 KPMG Women's
PGA Championship
Dates:October 8–11, 2020
Location:Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
Course:Aronimink Golf Club
Org:PGA of America
Tour:LPGA Tour
Par:72
Field:132 players, 75 after cut
Format:Stroke play - 72 holes
Cut:146 (+6)
Purse:$4.3 million
Winners Share:$645,000
Champion: Kim Sei-young
Score:266 (−14)
Previous:2019
Next:2021
Map:USA#USA Pennsylvania
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:Aronimink
Coordinates:40.004°N -75.2432°W

The 2020 KPMG Women's PGA Championship was the 66th Women's PGA Championship. It was originally scheduled to be played June 25–28 at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. It was rescheduled to October 8–11 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Known as the LPGA Championship through 2014, it was the third of four major championships on the LPGA Tour during the 2020 season.

Kim Sei-young won with a record low aggregate of 266, 14 under par, after a final round 63. She finished five strokes ahead of Inbee Park, who had a last round of 65.[1]

Field

The field included 132 players who met one or more of the selection criteria and commit to participate by a designated deadline.[2] With the exception of one place reserved for the winner of the ShopRite LPGA Classic, the final field was set on September 22.[3]

Leading contenders were expected to include world number two Nelly Korda, 2017 winner and world number three Danielle Kang, world number four and 2020 ANA Inspiration runner-up Brooke Henderson, and 2018 winner and world number six Park Sung-hyun. Several top-ranked South Koreans did not play, including world number one Ko Jin-young, Ryu So-yeon, Kim Hyo-joo and Lee Jeong-eun. Also in the field were six club professionals. Sandra Gal and Julia Engström were the recipients of the two sponsors invites.[4]

Qualification criteria

  1. Active LPGA Hall of Fame members
  2. Past winners of the Women's PGA Championship
  3. Professionals who have won an LPGA major championship since the start of 2015
  4. Professionals who have won an official LPGA tournament since the start of 2018
  5. Winner of the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational in 2019
  6. Professionals who finished in the top-10 and ties at the previous year's Women's PGA Championship
  7. Professionals ranked No. 1-40 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of March 16, 2020
  8. Professionals ranked No. 1-40 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of September 15, 2020
  9. The top-8 finishers at the 2019 LPGA T&CP National Championship
  10. The top finisher (not otherwise qualified via the 2019 LPGA T&CP National Championship) at the 2020 PGA Women's Stroke Play Championship
  11. Members of the European and United States Solheim Cup teams in 2019
  12. Maximum of two sponsor invites
  13. Any player who did not compete in the 2019 KPMG Women's PGA Championship due to maternity, provided she was otherwise qualified to compete.
  14. LPGA members ranked in the order of their position on the 2020 official money list as of the commitment deadline
  15. The remainder of the field will be filled by members who have committed to the event, ranked in the order of their position on the 2020 LPGA Priority List as of the commitment deadline

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, October 8, 2020

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 67 −3
T3 68 −2
Cydney Clanton
Danielle Kang
Lydia Ko
Gaby López
Linnea Ström
T9 69 −1
Pernilla Lindberg
Anna Nordqvist
Amy Yang

Second round

Friday, October 9, 2020

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 71-65=136 −4
align=center rowspan=4T2 68-69=137 align=center rowspan=4−3
68-69=137
72-65=137
69-68=137
align=center rowspan=5T6 70-68=138 align=center rowspan=5−2
68-70=138
70-68=138
68-70=138
67-71=138

Third round

Saturday, October 10, 2020

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 71-65-67=203 −7
align=center rowspan=2T2 71-69-65=205 align=center rowspan=2−5
69-68-68=205
4 70-70-66=206 −4
5 77-65-65=207 −3
align=center rowspan=4T6 68-69-71=208 align=center rowspan=4−2
74-68-66=208
72-65-71=208
68-72-68=208
10 72-69-68=209 −1

Final round

Sunday, October 11, 2020

PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1 Kim Sei-young 71-65-67-63=266 −14 645,000
2 70-70-66-65=271 −9 388,569
align=center rowspan=2T3 68-69-71-65=273 align=center rowspan=2−7 align=center rowspan=2249,967
72-69-68-64=273
5 69-68-68-71=276 −4 175,511
6 71-69-65-72=277 −3 143,599
align=center rowspan=2T7 70-71-69-69=279 align=center rowspan=2−1 align=center rowspan=2112,752
72-65-71-71=279
align=center rowspan=4T9 67-72-72-69=280 align=center rowspan=4E align=center rowspan=483,765
68-72-68-72=280
77-65-65-73=280
70-68-74-68=280

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Sei Young Kim fires 63 to seal KPMG Women's PGA, first major win . ESPN . Associated Press . October 11, 2020.
  2. Web site: Qualification criteria . KPMG Women's PGA Championship . October 6, 2020.
  3. Web site: Sandra Gal and Julia Engstrom receive sponsor invites to KPMG Women's PGA Championship . KPMG Women's PGA Championship . September 23, 2020 . Amy . Rogers . October 6, 2020.
  4. Web site: KPMG Women's PGA field nearly set, Haley Moore in favorable position to take final spot . Golfweek . USA Today . September 28, 2020 . Beth Ann . Nichols . October 6, 2020.

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