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Sunday 23 June 2024LPGA TourYear in Review
Yang wins KPMG Women's PGA Championship
Sahalee Country Club, Sammamish, Washington · Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 June 2024 · Amy Yang’s win no. 6 on the LPGA Tour · purse $10,400,000 USD · KPMG
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 47 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 66° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R126°/10°C · wind 14 km/h N, gusts 33 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R227°/11°C · wind 8 km/h N, gusts 24 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R323°/16°C · wind 9 km/h SSW, gusts 28 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R418°/13°C · wind 14 km/h SSW, gusts 37 · 5.7 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
- Jin Young Ko KOR · 284 2024 Women's PGA Championship - Wikipedia
- Lilia Vu USA · 284 2024 Women's PGA Championship - Wikipedia
- Miyu Yamashita JPN · 284played in the final group with Yang and closed with 73 KPMG Women's PGA Championship, June 23, 2024: Miyu Yamashita - ASAP Sports
156 started · cut +5, 73 made it
Same week
Women's major
KPMG Women's PGA Championship
Sahalee Country Club, Sammamish
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jin Young Ko, Lilia Vu, Miyu Yamashita
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
23 June 2024
Some days golf feels so easy and feels so fun; other days it feels like I want to retire very soon.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
23 June 2024
I'm trying to process right now. (Smiling.) But it's amazing, yeah. I see Seri's name right there, 1998. Yeah, I've always dreamed it, and so honored to have it.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
23 June 2024
I'm so happy that I could play in the last day, the last group, and then seeing Amy winning the tournament it made me work even more harder.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amy Yang | 70 · 68 · 71 · 72 | 281 | −7 |
| T2 | Lilia Vu | 75 · 70 · 68 · 71 | 284 | −4 |
| T2 | Jin Young Ko | 72 · 68 · 73 · 71 | 284 | −4 |
| T2 | Miyu Yamashita | 71 · 70 · 70 · 73 | 284 | −4 |
| T5 | Ally Ewing | 72 · 70 · 72 · 71 | 285 | −3 |
| T5 | Lauren Hartlage | 73 · 69 · 69 · 74 | 285 | −3 |
| T7 | Mao Saigo | 70 · 76 · 73 · 67 | 286 | −2 |
| T7 | Hinako Shibuno | 70 · 70 · 73 · 73 | 286 | −2 |
| T9 | Linn Grant | 73 · 74 · 70 · 70 | 287 | −1 |
| T9 | Haeran Ryu | 74 · 67 · 75 · 71 | 287 | −1 |
| T9 | Caroline Inglis | 70 · 74 · 69 · 74 | 287 | −1 |
| T9 | Lexi Thompson | 68 · 72 · 73 · 74 | 287 | −1 |
| T9 | Sarah Schmelzel | 71 · 67 · 74 · 75 | 287 | −1 |
The golfer
born 1989-07-28, Ilsan, Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea; KOR; turned pro 2006; age 34 that week; tour wins to date: 6; majors to date: 1; world No. 25 that week (Rolex Women's World Golf Ranking list dated 2024-06-17 (published by LPGA.com), row: 25 ‐2 ‐9 Yang, Amy ‐ 2418 KOR 41 130.7198 3.1883).
What’s in the bag
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