Dates | June 29 – July 2, 2017 |
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Location | Olympia Fields, Illinois |
Course(s) |
Olympia Fields Country Club North Course |
Organized by | PGA of America |
Tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
Format | Stroke play - 72 holes |
Par | 70 |
Length | 7,343 yards (6,714 m) |
Field | 156 players |
Prize fund | $3.5 million |
Winner's share | $525,000 |
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The 2017 KPMG Women's PGA Championship will be the 63rd Women's PGA Championship, scheduled for June 29 – July 2 at Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Illinois, a suburb south of Chicago. Known as the LPGA Championship through 2014, it will be the second of five major championships on the LPGA Tour during the 2017 season.
Olympia Fields hosted the PGA Championship in 1925 and 1961, and the U.S. Open in 1928 and 2003. It has also been the site of the U.S. Senior Open (1997) and the U.S. Amateur (2015).
The field includes 156 players who meet one or more of the selection criteria and commit to participate by a designated deadline.
Players who have qualified for the Championship are listed below. Players are listed under the first category in which they qualified; additional qualifying categories are shown in parentheses. Players are eligible based on the following criteria:
1. Active LPGA Hall of Fame members
2. Past winners of the LPGA Championship
3. Professionals who have won an LPGA major championship in the previous five years and during the current year