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Sunday 3 June 2018LPGA TourYear in Review
Jutanugarn wins U.S. Women's Open
Shoal Creek Club, Birmingham, Alabama · Thursday 31 May to Sunday 3 June 2018 · Ariya Jutanugarn’s win no. 9 on the LPGA Tour · purse $5.0 million USD · first U.S. Women's Open under the USGA's two-hole aggregate playoff format; went to sudden death
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 06 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 79° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R131°/22°C · wind 11 km/h SSW, gusts 30 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R229°/21°C · wind 13 km/h SSW, gusts 37 · 10 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R332°/21°C · wind 10 km/h W, gusts 31 · 3.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R431°/22°C · wind 13 km/h WNW, gusts 35 · 4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- U.S. Women's Open
1946–2026 in our record, 81 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Hyo-Joo Kim KOR · 277Closed with a bogey-free 67 (holing a 50-footer at the 15th) to force a playoff; birdied the first extra hole but bogeyed the 18th twice, missing for par on the fourth extra hole. Ariya Jutanugarn wins U.S. Women's Open on fourth playoff hole (AP via ESPN)
156 started · cut +4, 63 made it
Same week
Women's major
U.S. Women's Open
Shoal Creek, Shoal Creek
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Hyo Joo Kim
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
3 June 2018
You know, after you have like 7 shot lead and end up with you have to go to playoff, I have no expectations because like I kind of got mad a little bit with my back-9 but okay.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
3 June 2018
I told my caddy, "I don't know how to hit this one." He's like, "Come on, do you want to win?" I'm like, "Yes." He said, "Okay. Then we have to do it."
ASAP Sports (interview transcript, through interpreter)
3 June 2018
I'm extremely happy that I was part of the kind of historical day.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ariya Jutanugarn | 67 · 70 · 67 · 73 | 277 | −11 |
| 2 | Hyo-Joo Kim | 70 · 72 · 68 · 67 | 277 | −11 |
| 3 | Carlota Ciganda | 73 · 68 · 71 · 69 | 281 | −7 |
| 4 | Danielle Kang | 69 · 77 · 70 · 69 | 285 | −3 |
| T5 | Wei-Ling Hsu | 71 · 73 · 70 · 72 | 286 | −2 |
| T5 | Sarah Jane Smith | 67 · 67 · 74 · 78 | 286 | −2 |
| T5 | Lexi Thompson | 71 · 75 · 70 · 70 | 286 | −2 |
| T5 | Patty Tavatanakit | 70 · 73 · 72 · 71 | 286 | −2 |
| 9 | Inbee Park | 70 · 71 · 71 · 75 | 287 | −1 |
| T10 | Nasa Hataoka | 74 · 70 · 72 · 72 | 288 | E |
| T10 | Charley Hull | 74 · 73 · 70 · 71 | 288 | E |
| T10 | Megan Khang | 72 · 74 · 69 · 73 | 288 | E |
| T10 | Ji Hyun Kim | 70 · 71 · 70 · 77 | 288 | E |
| T10 | Nelly Korda | 70 · 74 · 71 · 73 | 288 | E |
| T10 | Angela Stanford | 73 · 72 · 71 · 72 | 288 | E |
| T10 | Michelle Wie | 69 · 72 · 76 · 71 | 288 | E |
The golfer
born 1995-11-23, Bangkok, Thailand; THA; turned pro 2012; age 22 that week; tour wins to date: 9; majors to date: 2.
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