2024 Women's PGA Championship explained

2024 KPMG Women's PGA Championship
Dates:June 20–23, 2024
Location:Sammamish, Washington
Course:Sahalee Country Club
(South & North nines)
Org:PGA of America
Tour:LPGA Tour
Par:72
Field:156 players,
73 after cut
Cut:149 (+5)
Purse:$10,400,000[1]
Winners Share:$1,560,000
Champion: Amy Yang
Score:281 (−7)
Previous:2023
Next:2025
Map:USA#USA Washington
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:Sahalee
Coordinates:47.635°N -122.057°W

The 2024 KPMG Women's PGA Championship was the 70th Women's PGA Championship. It was played June 20–23 at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle. It was the third of five major championships on the LPGA Tour during the 2024 season.

Sahalee hosted the PGA Championship in 1998, the U.S. Senior Open in 2010, and the Women's PGA Championship in 2016, where Brooke Henderson won in a playoff over Lydia Ko.

Amy Yang won her first major by three strokes over Ko Jin-young, Lilia Vu, and Miyū Yamashita.[2]

Course layout

See main article: article and Sahalee Country Club.

Source:[3]

The course was 6624yd, par 71 in 2016; the 18th hole was a par 4 at .

Field

The field included 156 players who met one or more of the selection criteria and commit to participate by a designated deadline.[3] [4]

1. Active LPGA and/or World Golf Hall of Fame members

2. Past winners of the Women's PGA Championship

3. Professionals who have won an LPGA major championship in the previous five years and during the current year

4. Professionals who have won an official LPGA tournament in the previous two calendar years and during the current year

5. Winners of the 2023 Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational

6. Order of Merit winners from the Ladies European Tour, LPGA of Japan Tour, and LPGA of Korea Tour

7. Professionals who finished top-10 and ties at the previous year's Women's PGA Championship

8. Professionals ranked No. 1–60 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of May 20, 2024

9. The top eight finishers at the 2023 LPGA Professionals National Championship

10. The top finisher (not otherwise qualified via the 2023 LPGA Professionals National Championship) at the 2024 PGA Women's Stroke Play Championship

11. Sponsor invitations

12. Any player who did not compete in the 2023 KPMG Women's PGA Championship due to maternity

13. LPGA members who have committed to the event, ranked in the order of their position on the 2024 CME Globe Points list

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Lexi Thompson shot a 4-under-par round of 68 to take a one stroke lead over world number one Nelly Korda and Patty Tavatanakit. Defending champion Yin Ruoning was three strokes back at 71.[5]

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 68 −4
T2 69 −3
Patty Tavatanakit
T4 70 −2
Allisen Corpuz
Charley Hull
Caroline Inglis
Akie Iwai
Leona Maguire
Madelene Sagström
Mao Saigo
Hinako Shibuno
Amy Yang
Arpichaya Yubol

Second round

Friday, June 21, 2024

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 71-67=138 −6
70-68=138
T3 72-68=140 −4
70-70=140
68-72=140
T6 70-71=141 −3
74-67=141
71-70=141
T9 72-70=142 −2
73-69=142
70-72=142

Third round

Saturday, June 22, 2024

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 70-68-71=209 −7
T2 73-69-69=211 −5
71-70-70=211
4 71-67-74=212 −4
T5 70-74-69=213 −3
72-68-73=213
70-70-73=213
68-72-73=213
75-70-68=213
T10 72-70-72=214 −2
73-72-69=214

Final round

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Champion
(c) = past champion
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1 Amy Yang 70-68-71-72=281 −7 1,560,000
T2 72-68-73-71=284 −4 702,478
75-70-68-71=284
71-70-70-73=284
T5 72-70-72-71=285 −3 378,447
73-69-69-74=285
T7 70-76-73-67=286 −2 267,437
70-70-73-73=286
T9 73-74-70-70=287 −1 192,046
70-74-69-74=287
74-67-75-71=287
71-67-74-75=287
68-72-73-74=287

Scorecard

Hole1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718
Par454435443454344435
A.Yang −8 −8 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −8 −9 −9 −10 −10 −10 −9 −7 −7
Ko −3 −3 −3 −3 −4 −4 −3 −2 −2 −2 −3 −3 −3 −3 −2 −3 −3 −4
Vu −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −2 −2 −3 −4 −5 −5 −4 −3 −3 −3 −4
Yamashita −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −4 −4 −4 −5 −4 −4 −4 −3 −3 −3 −4
Ewing −2 −2 −3 −3 −3 −4 −4 −3 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −3 −3 −3
Hartlage −5 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −5 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −2 −2 −3 −3

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

BirdieBogeyDouble bogey

Source:[6]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Purse Increases to $10.4 Million . LPGA . June 19, 2024 . June 20, 2024.
  2. News: Amy Yang wins Women's PGA; oldest major winner since '18 . ESPN . Associated Press . June 23, 2024.
  3. Web site: 2024 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Fact Sheet.pdf . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240617022051/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hdu1p9AETb8S0Wg5t6f9TnsP1EuDgpWT/view . 2024-06-17 . 2024-06-17 . Google Docs.
  4. Web site: 2024-06-13 . Field List Announced for 2024 KPMG Women's PGA Championship . 2024-06-16 . Women's PGA Championship.
  5. News: Thompson 1 ahead of Korda, Tavatanakit at Women's PGA . ESPN . Associated Press . June 20, 2024.
  6. Web site: KPMG Women's PGA Championship – Results . 2024-06-24 . LPGA.

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