Dates | July 7–10, 2016 |
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Location | San Martin, California |
Course(s) | CordeValle Golf Club |
Organized by | USGA |
Tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
Par | 72 |
Length | 6,784 yards (6,203 m) |
Field | 156 players, 72 after cut |
Cut | 148 (+4) |
Prize fund | $4.5 million |
Winner's share | $810,000 |
Brittany Lang | |
282 (−6), playoff | |
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The 2016 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship was the 71st U.S. Women's Open, played from July 7 through 10 at CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin, California, southeast of San Jose.
The U.S. Women's Open is the oldest of the five current major championships and the third of the 2016 season. It has the largest purse in women's golf at $4.5 million, and was televised by Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports.
Brittany Lang won her first major title in a playoff over Anna Nordqvist.
The championship was open to any female professional or amateur golfer with a USGA handicap index not exceeding 2.4. Players qualified by competing in one of twenty 36-hole qualifying tournaments held at sites across the United States and at international sites in China, England, Japan, and South Korea. Additional players were exempt from qualifying because of past performances in professional or amateur tournaments around the world. The USGA received a record 1,855 entries for the championship.
Many players are exempt in multiple categories. Players are listed only once, in the first category in which they became exempt, with additional categories in parentheses ( ) next to their names. Golfers qualifying in Category 13 who qualified in other categories are denoted with the tour by which they qualified.
Choi Na-yeon (10,15,16), Chun In-gee (9,11,13-KLPGA,15,16), Paula Creamer (10,15), Ji Eun-hee (10,15,16), Cristie Kerr (10,12,15,16), Ryu So-yeon (9,10,15,16), Michelle Wie (10)