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Sunday 9 June 2013LPGA TourYear in Review
Park wins Wegmans LPGA Championship
Locust Hill Country Club, Pittsford, New York · Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 June 2013 · Inbee Park’s win no. 7 on the LPGA Tour · purse $2,250,000 USD · Wegmans · Thursday's first round was washed out by heavy rain; the third and fourth rounds were both played on Sunday, followed by a three-hole playoff
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 06 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 70° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R114°/13°C · wind 15 km/h ESE, gusts 37 · 34.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R218°/13°C · wind 11 km/h WSW, gusts 24 · 2.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R318°/14°C · wind 13 km/h WNW, gusts 28 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R424°/13°C · wind 11 km/h W, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- LPGA Championship
- Eve-LPGA Championship
- Mazda LPGA Championship
- McDonald's LPGA Championship
- McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by AIG
- McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by Coca-Cola
- LPGA Championship presented by Wegmans
- Wegmans LPGA Championship
- KPMG Women's PGA Championship
1955–2026 in our record, 72 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Catriona Matthew SCO · 283Started the final round seven back and closed with a bogey-free 68 to force a playoff; lost on the third extra hole after driving into the rough at the 18th and missing a 50-foot par chip Inbee Park outlasts Catriona Matthew (AP via ESPN)
150 started · cut +6, 76 made it
Same week
Women's major
Wegmans LPGA Championship
Locust Hill Country Club, Pittsford
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Catriona Matthew
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
9 June 2013
The amount of fairways I was missing today it's almost a miracle that I won today.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
9 June 2013
I played with Morgan pretty much all day 35 holes and then I got to the last hole and I saw the board and Catriona was right there if I made a bogey.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
9 June 2013
Youngest one keeps telling me not to come home unless I get a trophy. So I'm getting closer. She's a hard task master.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inbee Park | 72 · 68 · 68 · 75 | 283 | −5 |
| 2 | Catriona Matthew | 71 · 71 · 73 · 68 | 283 | −5 |
| T3 | Suzann Pettersen | 72 · 73 · 74 · 65 | 284 | −4 |
| T3 | Morgan Pressel | 68 · 70 · 71 · 75 | 284 | −4 |
| T5 | Chella Choi | 67 · 73 · 73 · 72 | 285 | −3 |
| T5 | Jiyai Shin | 68 · 73 · 69 · 75 | 285 | −3 |
| T5 | Amy Yang | 71 · 70 · 74 · 70 | 285 | −3 |
| T5 | Sun Young Yoo | 73 · 69 · 70 · 73 | 285 | −3 |
| T9 | Na Yeon Choi | 72 · 70 · 70 · 74 | 286 | −2 |
| T9 | Shanshan Feng | 74 · 70 · 72 · 70 | 286 | −2 |
| T9 | Michelle Wie | 76 · 68 · 71 · 71 | 286 | −2 |
The golfer
born 1988-07-12, Seoul, South Korea; KOR; turned pro 2006; age 24 that week; tour wins to date: 7; majors to date: 3; world No. 1 that week (Rolex Rankings as stated by AP ('the top-ranked South Korean star') via ESPN; Wikipedia 'number one in the world rankings').
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet