The 79th U.S. Girls’s Open takes place this week, starting Thursday at Lancaster Nation Membership in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Right here’s some need-to-know data for the ladies’s second main championship of the season:
Course: That is the second time Lancaster CC has performed host to the U.S. Girls’s Open. It first did so in 2015, which was gained by In Gee Chun, who closed in 66 to win in her Open debut by one stroke over Amy Yang.
Lancaster Nation Membership, on the scorecard this week, is 6,583 yards and a par 70 (Chun gained at 8 beneath in ’15).
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Discipline: There are 156 gamers beginning the championship, a mixture of those that earned their spots by way of qualifying and by way of incomes or being awarded exemptions.
The right way to watch: Peacock, USA Community and NBC can have reside match motion for all 4 rounds. “Dwell From the U.S. Girls’s Open” will air every day on Golf Channel, starting Wednesday. Along with the first protection, there will even be morning and afternoon featured teams all 4 rounds, completely on Peacock.
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Previous champions: U.S. Girls’s Open winners obtain a 10-year exemption into the championship. Right here’s a take a look at latest champs on this week’s subject:
- Allisen Corpuz (2023)
- Minjee Lee (2022)
- Yuka Saso (2021)
- A Lim Kim (2020)
- Jeongeun Lee6 (2019)
- Ariya Jutanugarn (2018)
- Brittany Lang (2016)
- In Gee Chun (2015)
Michelle Wie West, the 2014 champion, competed in her ultimate USWO final yr at Pebble Seashore. S.H. Park, the 2017 winner, has not competed on the LPGA this season.
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What the champions receives:
- Mickey Wright Medal
- Custody of Harton S. Semple Trophy for one yr
- Exemption into the following 10 U.S. Girls’s Opens
- Exemptions into the following 5 playings of the Chevron Championship, AIG Girls’s Open, KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship and Amundi Evian Championship
What’s the purse: This yr’s whole, with Ally Monetary Inc., as the brand new presenting sponsor, is a report $12 million. That’s up $1 million from final yr and greater than double the prize fund from three years in the past ($5.5 million). The USGA has not supplied how the purse will likely be distributed.
Is there a reduce: Sure. The low 60 scores and ties will play the ultimate 36 holes.
What’s the playoff format: If not less than two gamers are tied after 72 holes of stroke play, there will likely be a two-hole mixture playoff. Thereafter, could be sudden demise.