2021 ANA Inspiration explained

2021 ANA Inspiration
Dates:	April 1–4, 2021
Location:	Rancho Mirage, California
Course:	Mission Hills Country Club Dinah Shore Tournament Course
Tour:	LPGA Tour
Format:	Stroke play - 72 holes
Par:	72
Field:	119 players, 71 after cut
Cut:	145 (+1)
Purse:	$3.1 million
Winners Share:	465,000
Champion:	Patty Tavatanakit
Score:	270 (−18)
Previous:	2020
Next:	2022
Map:	USA#USA California
Map Relief:	yes
Map Label:	Rancho Mirage
Coordinates:	33.798°N -116.433°W

The 2021 ANA Inspiration was the 50th ANA Inspiration golf tournament, held April 1–4, 2021 at the Dinah Shore Tournament Course of Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. It was its 39th year as a major championship on the LPGA Tour, and Golf Channel televised the event for the 11th consecutive year. The tournament was originally known as the Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle.

Patty Tavatanakit won her first LPGA Tour event by two strokes over Lydia Ko. Tavatanakit won the event wire-to-wire and became the first rookie to win the ANA Inspiration since Juli Inkster in 1984 and the fourth straight first-time major winner.^[1]

Field

Players who have qualified for the event are listed below. Players are listed under the first category in which they qualified; additional qualifying categories are shown in parentheses.

1. Active LPGA Tour Hall of Fame members (must have participated in ten official LPGA Tour tournaments within the 12 months prior to the commitment deadline)

2. Winners of all previous ANA Inspirations

3. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open, Women's PGA Championship, and Ricoh Women's British Open in the previous five years

4. Winners of The Evian Championship in the previous five years

5. Winners of official LPGA Tour tournaments from the 2016 ANA Inspiration through the week immediately preceding the 2021 ANA Inspiration

6. All players who finished in the top-20 in the previous year's ANA Inspiration

7. All players who finished in the top-5 of the previous year's U.S. Women's Open, Women's PGA Championship, Ricoh Women's British Open and The Evian Championship

8. Top-80 on the previous year's season-ending LPGA Tour official money list

9. Top-30 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of a March 8, 2021

10. Top-2 players from the previous year's season-ending Ladies European Tour Order of Merit, LPGA of Japan Tour money list and LPGA of Korea Tour money list

11. Top-20 players plus ties on the current year LPGA Tour official money list at the end of the last official tournament prior to the current ANA Inspiration, not otherwise qualified above, provided such players are within the top-80 positions on the current year LPGA Tour official money list at the beginning of the tournament competition

12. Previous year's Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year

13. Previous year's U.S. Women's Amateur champion, provided she is still an amateur at the beginning of tournament competition

14. Any LPGA Member who did not compete in the previous year's ANA Inspiration major due to injury, illness or maternity, who subsequently received a medical/maternity extension of membership from the LPGA in the previous calendar year, provided they were otherwise qualified to compete in the previous year's ANA Inspiration

15. Up to six sponsor invitations for top-ranked amateur players

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Place	Player	Score	To par
1		66	−6
T2		67	−5
Leona Maguire
T4		68	−4
Moriya Jutanugarn
Megan Khang
Anna Nordqvist
T8		69	−3
Charley Hull
Ko Jin-young
Jessica Korda
Jennifer Kupcho
Bronte Law
Mirim Lee
Yuka Saso

Second round

Friday, April 2, 2021

Place	Player	Score	To par
1		66-69=135	−9
2		67-69=136	−8
3		68-69=137	−7
align=center rowspan=2	T4		69-69=138	align=center rowspan=2	−6
	68-70=138
align=center rowspan=6	T6		69-70=139	align=center rowspan=6	−5
	69-70=139
	70-69=139
	69-70=139
	70-69=139
	70-69=139

Third round

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Place	Player	Score	To par
1		66-69-67=202	−14
align=center rowspan=2	T2		71-70-66=207	align=center rowspan=2	−9
	69-70-68=207
4		67-69-72=208	−8
align=center rowspan=2	T5		69-69-71=209	align=center rowspan=2	−7
	70-69-70=209
align=center rowspan=4	T7		68-69-73=210	align=center rowspan=4	−6
	69-70-71=210
	70-69-71=210
	73-67-70=210

Final round

Sunday, April 4, 2021

Place	Player	Score	To par	Prize money (US$)
1	Patty Tavatanakit	66-69-67-68=270	−18	465,000
2		70-69-71-62=272	−16	287,716
align=center rowspan=4	T3		67-69-72-69=277	align=center rowspan=4	−11	align=center rowspan=4	151,615
	72-71-68-66=277
	71-70-70-66=277
	72-68-71-66=277
align=center rowspan=3	T7		71-70-66-71=278	align=center rowspan=3	−10	align=center rowspan=3	79,025
	69-70-71-68=278
	70-69-70-69=278
align=center rowspan=3	T10		68-69-73-69=279	align=center rowspan=3	−9	align=center rowspan=3	59,333
	68-73-71-67=279
	69-70-68-72=279

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5
Tavatanakit	−14	−16	−16	−16	−16	−16	−16	−17	−17	−17	−17	−18	−18	−18	−18	−18	−18	−18
Ko	−7	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−12	−12	−13	−14	−15	−15	−15	−15	−16	−16	−16	−16
Feng	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11
Kim	−6	−7	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−10	−10	−11
Korda	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11
Madsen	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−6	−6	−6	−5	−7	−8	−9	−9	−10	−11	−11	−11

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+ -->

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External links

• • Coverage on the LPGA Tour official site

Notes and References

1. News: Patty Tavatanakit holds off charging Lydia Ko to win ANA Inspiration for first LPGA Tour victory . ESPN . Associated Press . April 4, 2021.
2. Web site: ANA Inspiration 2021 Leaderboard . Golf Channel.