The USGA has 18 future U.S. Women’s Open locations scheduled.
The U.S. Women’s Open had another smashing success at Lancaster Country Club.
Now, the countdown is on for the USGA’s national championship in 2025.
The 80th USWO will be contested at Erin Hills in Erin, Wisconsin.
In all, the U.S. Golf Association has announced 18 future U.S. Women’s Open locations through 2048, although but there are several years with locations still to be announced.
Check out this list of future stops, which includes the first-ever trip to Riviera in the very near future.
The 77th U.S. Women’s Open featured a $10 million purse.
A year ago, 19-year-old Yuka Saso earned $1 million for winning the U.S. Women’s Open at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.
In 2022, thanks a big boost in the total purse, Mina Harigae pocketed $1,080,000.
For finishing second.
Minjee Lee won the 77th U.S. Women’s Open to claim the big prize, banking $1.8 million for winning at Pine Needles Golf & Country Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
In January, the U.S. Golf Association announced an increase in the tournament’s purse to $10 million and with presenting sponsor ProMedica on board, the plans are to keep going, with the goal of a $12 million purse coming in the near future.
By comparison, Jennifer Kupcho earned $750,000 for winning the first LPGA major of 2022, the Chevron Championship.
Take a look at the complete money list from the 2022 U.S. Women’s Open.
In 2020, Mina Harigae played on the Cactus Tour and took home paychecks in the neighborhood of $2,000.
SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. – Mina Harigae’s biggest takeaways from finishing runner-up at the 77th U.S. Women’s Open?
That she can handle this kind of moment. That she belongs.
Those are the intangibles, at least. Practically speaking, Harigae cashed in on the biggest prize in LPGA history for a woman who didn’t win. Her historic $1,080,000 payday at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club is quite literally life-changing. Going into this week, she’d made $84,721 on the season and $2.9 million over the course of her 12-year career. (Minus taxes and expenses, of course.)
Forget private jets. On the eve of the championship, Harigae said a payday like that would give her enough money in the bank to book commercial flights months into the future.
While the steady Minjee Lee built an insurmountable lead, Harigae found herself tied with Lydia Ko and Hyejin Choi down the stretch Sunday. A birdie on the par-5 15th, however, gave Harigae the breathing room needed to hold on to solo second. The rookie Choi earned $685,043 for third.
For more perspective, consider that when Ko won the Gainbridge LPGA, she earned $300,000. This week she earned $399,982 for solo fifth.
“I’m not going to lie,” said Harigae, “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.”
It wasn’t that long ago, 2019 in fact, that Harigae was in neighboring Pinehurst, North Carolina, competing in LPGA Q-Series, fighting to keep her card.
In 2020, Harigae played on the Cactus Tour when the LPGA was shut down during the pandemic, winning four times with crazy low scores and taking home paychecks in the neighborhood of $2,000. She hadn’t had a sponsor in years at that point, and the generosity of friends and family helped keep her going.
Mina Harigae plays her tee shot on the 18th hole during the final round of the 77th U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club on June 5, 2022 in Southern Pines, North Carolina. (Photo: Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)
“I felt very helpless,” she told Golfweek last year. “It felt like I was racing against time … the walls were closing in on me.”
Fast forward to 2021, and a more mature, joy-filled Harigae found herself one of U.S. captain Pat Hurst’s three Solheim Cup picks. A remarkable rise for a player who showed such great promise as a youngster, winning four California State Women’s Amateurs and the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links.
This week she took her progress to a new level.
“This is definitely top one or two highlights of my career,” said Harigae, who is still in search of her first LPGA title. “Obviously, just the prize money, but solo second in a major, and that’s my best by far. Really happy with it.”
Next year the U.S. Women’s Open heads to Pebble Beach for the first time. Harigae gew up in Monterey, California, and her parents own Takara Sushi in Pacific Grove. Harigae estimates that she’s played Pebble Beach more than 30 times and her lowest round there in compeition is a 7-under 65.
“Just have so many great memories at Pebble Beach,” she said, “and it’s my favorite place on earth. I’m really looking forward to it next year.”
“I just kind of fell off the map and went a completely different route.”
SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. – Fifteen years ago at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club, Johnny Miller called Angela Park’s swing the best in women’s golf. A then 18-year-old Park tied for second with Lorena Ochoa at the 2007 U.S. Women’s Open and looked poised to become a force on the LPGA.
In a few short years, however, Park was off the tour. She won $2.1 million in four seasons on the LPGA and then abruptly moved on.
“I ultimately decided to step back from the game because I no longer had the desire to play,” said Park via email. “It was just simple as that.”
Park, 33, requested an email exchange because her hands are now literally full with 3-month-old Noah, her first child with husband of four years, Steve.
Park turned pro on the same day as close friend Inbee Park, on the Monday after the 2006 Kraft Nabisco Championship (now the Chevron). Both were 17 years old and bound for the Epson Tour.
Inbee, of course, is now an LPGA Hall of Famer and seven-time major winner. Angela never won on the LPGA but certainly had more than enough talent to hoist many trophies. She was the 2007 Louise Suggs Rolex LPGA Rookie of Year, topping both In-Kyung Kim and Inbee Park.
Angela Park celebrates a birdie on the 18th hole during the final round of the U.S. Women’s Open Championship at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club on July 1, 2007 in Southern Pines, North Carolina. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images)
“I do, of course, wonder how my life would have been different if I just kept playing,” said Park, “but I do believe all things happen for a reason, and I was bound to live the life I live now.”
Park can’t remember the last time she picked up a golf club. The job of mom is more difficult, she said, than competitive golf. She lives in Southern California and is going back to school to become a pharmacist.
“I had many different jobs in different fields since I had no idea what I would find joy in again,” she wrote. “It took a long time to finally decide on this route. It’s a bit late, but I think better now than never.”
Park spent the first nine years of her life in Brazil, but her South Korean-born parents wanted a better education for their children and moved the family to California. It was in the U.S. that Park fell in love with the game. Her mother stayed behind in Brazil to run the family’s embroidery factory while her father oversaw her development.
Morgan Pressel grew up playing junior golf against Park, and said the pair pushed each other.
“A spectacular player,” said Pressel, “really solid all around, nothing overly flashy.”
Lorena Ochoa of Mexico (L) wipes her eyes as she and fellow runner-up Angela Park attend the trophy ceremony at the U.S. Women’s Open Championship at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club on July 1, 2007, in Southern Pines, North Carolina. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images)
Park remembers being hyper-focused at Pine Needles, executing “some amazing shots under pressure.” Those memories fuel confidence in her ability to accomplish other goals. She led after the first round at Pine Needles and co-led after the second. A final-round 70 put her in a share of second, two back of winner Cristie Kerr.
Park doesn’t really follow the LPGA or speak to many of the players she used to compete against.
“I just kind of fell off the map,” she said, “and went a completely different route.”
For the first time in women’s golf history, the top two players will earn seven figures. The U.S. Women’s Open features a $10 million purse.
SOUTHERN PINES, North Carolina – For the first time in women’s golf history, the top two players in a field will earn seven figures. The 77th U.S. Women’s Open features a historic $10 million purse, nearly double last year’s, thanks to the addition of ProMedica as presenting sponsor.
The winner on Sunday at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club will earn $1,800,000. Runner-up will take home $1,080,000.
No player on the LPGA has made $1 million this season. Jennifer Kupcho, winner of the year’s first major tops the tour with $917,112. She earned $750,000 for capturing the Chevron Championship.
For more perspective, consider that $1.5 million purses on the LPGA pay out six figures to the top two finishers. This week, the player who places 22nd will earn $102,905.
Players who missed the cut this week earned $8,000, double last year’s amount.
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Webb won her second consecutive U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles in 2001.
SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — The first time Minjee Lee came to the U.S. Women’s Open, she was a guest of LPGA and World Golf Hall of Famer Karrie Webb. But the young Aussie wasn’t just a fan outside the ropes. Lee actually stayed the week at Webb’s rental house, as a perk for winning the Karrie Webb Scholarship. That was nine years ago at Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton, New York.
The next year, Lee qualified for her first U.S. Women’s Open at Pinehurst No. 2, just down the road from this week’s venue in Southern Pines, where Lee happens to pace the field at 9-under 133 along with American Mina Harigae.
Webb happened to win her second consecutive U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles in 2001. Lee didn’t get a chance to pick her brain about the place but has enjoyed seeing Webb’s picture around.
Karrie Webb (L) and Minjee Lee of Australia walk to the 4th green during round one of the International Crown on July 24, 2014, in Owings Mills, Maryland. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
Lee, 26, won her first major title last summer at the Amundi Evian Championship and has seven career LPGA victories overall. She liked getting an up-close look at Webb’s strict routine that summer. A young Lee was already quite disciplined and felt like Webb’s example let her know she was on the track.
“We ate with her every day,” said Lee. “It was just very chill. She’s super cool, you know, when she’s not on the golf course. And she knows that.”
It was after a young Webb watched her hero, Greg Norman, compete in the 1986 Queensland Open that she came home and told her parents that she wanted to play professionally. She even stayed at Norman’s Florida estate as a bonus for being the overall girls champion in his junior golf foundation.
Webb never forgot the experience, and in 2008 brought the first winner of the Karrie Webb Scholarship to the U.S. Women’s Open at Interlachen. In 2019, Webb was on hand at Hazeltine National when another one of her scholarship winners, Hannah Green, won the KPMG Women’s PGA championship.
Green was a two-time scholarship recipient, attending her first professional golf tournament at the 2015 U.S. Women’s Open in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She enjoyed it so much that in 2017, she went on her own to stay with Webb at the Women’s Open at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, while competing on the Epson Tour.
Lee won the Cognizant Founders Cup three weeks ago. She’s especially pleased with her putting at Pine Needles, having worked in recent weeks on her speed. Through two rounds, she ranks fifth in the field in Strokes Gained: Putting.
Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie West are among several notable names going home early at the U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles.
SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie West came into the 77th U.S. Women’s Open not expecting to win, of course. But they certainly wanted to play the weekend.
The task proved too much for both, however, with Wie West carding 73-74 to finish 5 over for the tournament, two shots outside the cut line of 3 over. The field of 156 was cut to the top 60 and ties.
Sorenstam, 51, playing in her first LPGA major since 2008, shot 74-81 to finish at 13 over.
“It was an amazing week,” said Wie West, who announced plans to step away from the tour after this. “It’s definitely a bittersweet week. I wish I would have ended on making the cut and all of that.
“Obviously, no matter what, missing the cut sucks, but overall, I had a very positive experience.”
Here are some of the notable names leaving Pine Needles early.
SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. – Mina Harigae hasn’t felt confident on the greens all year. Until today. The 32-year-old carded nine birdies in a sizzling 7-under 64 to take the first-round lead at the 77 th U.S. Women’s Open. Her effort ties the …
SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. – Mina Harigae hasn’t felt confident on the greens all year.
Until today.
The 32-year-old carded nine birdies in a sizzling 7-under 64 to take the first-round lead at the 77th U.S. Women’s Open. Her effort ties the second-lowest round in championship history. It also marks her first round in the 60s in 36 previous career rounds at the Women’s Open.
Harigae leads amateur Ingrid Lindblad of Sweden by one stroke.
“It was Jordan Spieth-esque out there today,” she said as she walked off the flash podium late Thursday evening.
Harigae’s 24 putts leads the field. She credited boyfriend Travis Kreiter for finding the key to such a wildly successful day on the greens. All of a sudden, her stroke felt like 2021 again.
“She has a tendency to get her left shoulder up and out,” Kreiter said, “and kind of hit putts weak and right. I just had her hit putts and I put my finger on the top of the grip while she hit putts and she started to hit it more solid.”
Mina Harigae hits the ball off the 16th tee during the first round of the U.S. Women’s Open golf tournament at the Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C. on Thursday, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Harigae, who enjoyed a breakout season last year making the U.S. Solheim Cup team, made a 10-footer for birdie on the first hole that Kreiter said got her going. Her white-hot round included two bogeys, including one on the par-5 10th.
While she played at Pine Needles as an amateur in the 2007 Women’s Open, she only remembered the putting green and first and last holes. The California native spent one semester at Duke, but feels more of a tie to North Carolina due to her affinity for Michael Jordan.
Friday is the second round of the 77th U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles.
The 77th U.S. Women’s Open heads to the second round Friday at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina, which last hosted the event in 2007.
World No. 1 Jin Young Ko is playing this week alongside Lexi Thompson, who lost last year’s event in heartbreaking fashion at The Olympic Club, and Jennifer Kupcho, who won the first major of the year at the Chevron Championship.
Annika Sorenstam won at Pine Needles in 1996 and returns to Southern Pines to compete in her first major championship in 13 years. She’s playing the first two rounds with fellow U.S. Women’s Open champ So Yeon Ryu up-and-coming Swede Ingrid Lindblad of LSU. Sorenstam opened with a 74, while Lindblad shot a 65, a record low score for an amateur at the USWO.
Last year’s champion, Yuka Saso, is playing with three-time major winner Anna Nordqvist and amateur Jensen Castle.
Other marquee groups:
Lydia Ko, Jessica Korda, Hannah Green
Nasa Hataoka, Brooke Henderson, Minjee Lee
Nelly Korda, Danielle Kang, Attahaya Thitikul
Michelle Wie West, Brittany Lang, Sung Hyun Park
Rose Zhang, Lucy Li, Anna Davis
The U.S. Golf Association received a record 1,874 entries for this year’s event. A field of 156 golfers will compete for a $1.8 million first-place prize.
The Donald Ross design first opened in 1928 and was owned by World Golf Hall of Famer Peggy Kirk Bell and her husband Bullet. The course this week measures 6,638 yards and will play as a par 71.
The U.S. Women’s Open is using split tees, the 1st and the 9th, this week.
1st tee
Time
Golfers
7:15 a.m.
Frida Kinhult
Saki Baba (a)
Yuna Takagi
7:26 a.m.
Isi Gabsa
Marissa Steen
Karissa Kilby (a)
7:37 a.m.
Lauren Kim (a)
Wenbo Liu
Lydia Hall
7:48 a.m.
Bianca Pagdanganan
Maude-Aimee LeBlanc
Sara Im (a)
7:59 a.m.
Stephanie Meadow
Annabell Fuller (a)
Bronte Law
8:10 a.m.
Pauline Roussin
Paula Reto
Bailey Shoemaker (a)
8:21 a.m.
Michelle Wie West
Brittany Lang
Sung Hyun Park
8:32 a.m.
Hae Ran Ryu
Yuna Nishimura
Amy Yang
8:43 a.m.
Celine Boutier
Patty Tavatanakit
Sei Young Kim
8:54 a.m.
Lizette Salas
Leona Maguire
Jeongeun Lee6
9:05 a.m.
Na Rin An
Ayaka Furue
Charley Hull
9:16 a.m.
Alexandra Forsterling (a)
Yuri Onishi
Smilla Sonderby
9:27 a.m.
Ilhee Lee
Karen Kim
Natsumi Hayakawa
12:45 p.m.
Anna Morgan (a)
Gabby Lemieux
Ingrid Gutierrez
12:56 p.m.
Lauren Kim
Mariel Galdiano
Melanie Green (a)
1:07 p.m.
Emma McMyler (a)
Sarah Kemp
Dottie Ardina
1:18 p.m.
Caroline Masson
Angela Stanford
Mel Reid
1:29 p.m.
So Mi Lee
Pia Babnik
Louise Duncan (a)
1:40 p.m.
Ariya Jutanugarn
Stacy Lewis
Yealimi Noh
1:51 p.m.
Marina Alex
Ally Ewing
Gaby Lopez
1:58 p.m.
Mirim Lee
Angel Yin
Brittany Altomare
2:02 p.m.
A Lim Kim
Mao Saigo
Madelene Sagstrom
2:24 p.m.
Lexi Thompson
Jennifer Kupcho
Jin Young Ko
2:35 p.m.
Annika Sorenstam
So Yeon Ryu
Ingrid Lindblad (a)
2:46 p.m.
Tiffany Chan
Lauren Gomez (a)
Daniela Darquea
2:57 p.m.
Nika Ito (a)
Alyaa Abdul
Kylee Choi (a)
9th tee
Time
Golfers
7 a.m.
Blakesly Brock (a)
Alexa Pano
Sofia Garcia
7:11 a.m.
Gabriela Ruffels
Laney Frye (a)
Cheyenne Knight
7:22 a.m.
Robynn Ree
Muni He
Malak Bouraeda (a)
7:33 a.m.
Na Yeon Choi
Pernilla Lindberg
In-Kyung Kim
7:44 a.m.
Momoko Ueda
Moriya Jutanugarn
Bohyun Park (a)
7:55 a.m.
Hinako Shibuno
Georgia Hall
Sophia Popov
8:06 a.m.
In Gee Chun
Megan Khang
Ryann O’Toole
8:17 a.m.
Mina Harigae
Carlota Ciganda
Hyejin Choi
8:28 a.m.
Hyo Joo Kim
Nanna Koerstz Madsen
Xiyu Janet Lin
8:39 a.m.
Danielle Kang
Nelly Korda
Atthaya Thitikul
8:50 a.m.
Rose Zhang (a)
Lucy Li
Anna Davis (a)
9:01 a.m.
Lauren Hartlage
Ami Gianchandani (a)
Julianne Alvarez
9:12 a.m.
Jeonghyun Lee (a)
Britney Yada
Yunxuan Michelle Zhang (a)
12:30 p.m.
Allison Emrey
Nicole Garcia
Lauren Miller (a)
12:41 p.m.
Kathleen Scavo
Alicia Joo (a)
Jillian Hollis
12:52 p.m.
Grace Kim
Minsol Kim (a)
Catherine Park (a)
1:03 p.m.
Bailey Davis (a)
Gemma Dryburgh
Amanda Doherty
1:14 p.m.
Allisen Corpuz
Annie Park
Lilia Vu
1:25 p.m.
Eun-Hee Ji
Andrea Lee
Ai Suzuki
1:36 p.m.
Alison Lee
Amy Olson
Matilda Castren
1:47 p.m.
Yuka Saso
Jensen Castle (a)
Anna Nordqvist
2:09 p.m.
Maja Stark
Pajaree Anannarukarn
Sakura Koiwai
2:13 p.m.
Nasa Hataoka
Minjee Lee
Brooke Henderson
2:20 p.m.
Hannah Green
Jessica Korda
Lydia Ko
2:31 p.m.
Pornanong Phatlum
Jaye Marie Green
Mayu Ha.m.ada
2:42 p.m.
Beth Wu
Auston Kim
Linnea Johansson
TV, streaming information
Friday, June 3
Second round
1 to 3 p.m., Peacock
3 to 8 p.m., USA Network
Saturday, June 4
Third round
Noon to 1 p.m., Peacock
1 to 3 p.m., USA Network
3 to 6 p.m., NBC
