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Sunday 5 April 2015LPGA TourYear in Review
Lincicome wins ANA Inspiration
Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California · Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 April 2015 · Brittany Lincicome’s win no. 6 on the LPGA Tour · purse $2,500,000 USD · ANA · playoff finished in fading light on Sunday April 5
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
12 h 30 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 62° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R129°/16°C · wind 11 km/h NW, gusts 43 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R228°/15°C · wind 10 km/h NE, gusts 32 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R331°/14°C · wind 10 km/h SW, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R427°/14°C · wind 15 km/h WSW, gusts 52 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
- Colgate-Dinah Shore
- Nabisco Dinah Shore Invitational
- Nabisco Dinah Shore
- Nabisco Championship
- Kraft Nabisco Championship
- ANA Inspiration
- Chevron Championship
1972–2026 in our record, 55 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Stacy Lewis USA · 279Led by two with five to play but bogeyed the 13th and 15th, missed birdie putts on the 72nd and first two extra holes, and lost the playoff with a bogey on the third extra hole. Brittany Lincicome forces playoff with eagle, triumphs on third extra hole (AP via ESPN)
115 started · cut +3, 73 made it
Same week
Women's major
ANA Inspiration
Mission Hills Country Club (Dinah Shore Tournament Course), Rancho Mirage
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Stacy Lewis
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
5 April 2015
Lo and behold here, 2009 I won on Easter Sunday, and today is Easter Sunday, so it's pretty crazy to think about.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
5 April 2015
Juli Inkster told me a long, long time ago if you're not nervous, you're not human.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
5 April 2015
I guess the more times you do it, the easier it gets. I don't know. That's all you can do. You can't sit and dwell on it.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brittany Lincicome | 72 · 68 · 70 · 69 | 279 | −9 |
| 2 | Stacy Lewis | 72 · 69 · 68 · 70 | 279 | −9 |
| 3 | Morgan Lee Pressel | 67 · 72 · 71 · 70 | 280 | −8 |
| T4 | Carlota Ciganda | 74 · 71 · 68 · 68 | 281 | −7 |
| T4 | Anna Nordqvist | 71 · 72 · 69 · 69 | 281 | −7 |
| T4 | Sei Young Kim | 72 · 65 · 69 · 75 | 281 | −7 |
| 7 | Lexi Thompson | 72 · 69 · 71 · 70 | 282 | −6 |
| T8 | Suzann Pettersen | 76 · 68 · 72 · 67 | 283 | −5 |
| T8 | Mi Hyang Lee | 74 · 68 · 70 · 71 | 283 | −5 |
| T8 | Shanshan Feng | 71 · 70 · 70 · 72 | 283 | −5 |
The golfer
born 1985-09-19, St. Petersburg, Florida; USA; turned pro 2004; age 29 that week; tour wins to date: 6; majors to date: 2; world No. 18 that week (Rolex Rankings as stated by AP ('projected to jump from 18th to sixth in the world ranking')).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet