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Sunday 3 June 2001Women’s majorsYear in Review

Webb wins U.S. Women's Open

Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club, Southern Pines, North Carolina · Thursday 31 May to Sunday 3 June 2001 · purse $2,900,000 · winner's share $520,000

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

14 h 14 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 77° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R126°/16°C · wind 12 km/h NE, gusts 28 · 0.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R225°/20°C · wind 16 km/h S, gusts 48 · 23.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R327°/20°C · wind 18 km/h SW, gusts 41 · 1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R429°/20°C · wind 17 km/h WSW, gusts 38 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. U.S. Women's Open

1946–2026 in our record, 81 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

150 started, 60 (cut at 146) made it

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Women's major

U.S. Women's Open

Pine Needles L. & G.C., Southern Pines

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Karrie Webb

273Total
−7To par
8 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Se Ri Pak

The golfer

b. 1974-12-21, Ayr, Queensland, Australia; Australia; age 26 at the win (year page); 4th major (card's count)

Karrie Webb’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet