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Sunday 5 June 2022LPGA TourYear in Review
Lee wins U.S. Women's Open
Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club, Southern Pines, North Carolina · Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 June 2022 · Minjee Lee’s win no. 8 on the LPGA Tour · purse $10,000,000 USD
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 16 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 77° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R136°/23°C · wind 14 km/h WSW, gusts 31 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R231°/21°C · wind 16 km/h N, gusts 34 · 0.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R330°/20°C · wind 11 km/h NE, gusts 39 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R431°/16°C · wind 16 km/h ENE, gusts 41 · 0 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
- Mina Kreiter USA · 275Played as Mina Harigae; trailed by three after 54 holes and closed with 72, finishing four back; first player to win $1 million for second place. Minjee Lee wins U.S. Women's Open, 'the one I've always wanted to win,' secures $1.8 million prize (ESPN, Paolo Uggetti)
156 started · cut +3, 70 made it
Same week
Women's major
U.S. Women's Open
Pine Needles L. & G.C., Southern Pines
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Mina Harigae
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
5 June 2022
It's such a large sum, and I'm really honored to be the first winner I guess of this sum.
ESPN
5 June 2022
That was the nervous-est I've ever been,
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
5 June 2022
I'm not going to lie, my stomach hurt the last couple holes coming down. I was really stressed out, but I was really just focusing on one shot at a time, making solid contact, and just hitting good putts.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minjee Lee | 67 · 66 · 67 · 71 | 271 | −13 |
| 2 | Mina Kreiter | 64 · 69 · 70 · 72 | 275 | −9 |
| 3 | Hye-Jin Choi | 71 · 64 · 72 · 70 | 277 | −7 |
| 4 | Jin Young Ko | 69 · 67 · 71 · 71 | 278 | −6 |
| 5 | Lydia Ko | 72 · 69 · 66 · 72 | 279 | −5 |
| T6 | Anna Nordqvist | 67 · 68 · 72 · 73 | 280 | −4 |
| T6 | Bronte Law | 69 · 69 · 68 · 74 | 280 | −4 |
| T8 | Leona Maguire | 70 · 70 · 68 · 74 | 282 | −2 |
| T8 | Megan Khang | 71 · 67 · 70 · 74 | 282 | −2 |
| T8 | Nelly Korda | 70 · 69 · 70 · 73 | 282 | −2 |
The golfer
born 1996-05-27, Perth, Western Australia, Australia; AUS; turned pro 2014; age 26 that week; tour wins to date: 8; majors to date: 2; world No. 4 that week (Rolex Women's World Golf Ranking list dated 2022-05-30 (published by LPGA.com), row: 4 ‐‐ +3 Lee, Minjee ‐ 4139 AUS 52 304.3376 5.8526).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet