With just two weeks to go in the 2020 LPGA Tour season, this week celebrates golf’s final major championship. The 75th U.S. Women’s Open delayed nearly six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, gets underway this week at Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas. For the first time in U.S. Women’s Open history, the championship will be played on two courses: Cypress Creek (all four rounds) and Jackrabbit (first and second rounds).
At the 2019 U.S. Women’s Open, Jeongeun Lee6 became a Rolex First-Time Winner with a two-stroke victory over So Yeon Ryu, Lexi Thompson and Angel Yin at the Country Club of Charleston in South Carolina. She also became the 13thplayer to win a major in her rookie season on the LPGA Tour, her first step en route to winning 2019 Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year honors.
Lee6 is in Houston to defend her title, along with eight other past U.S. Women’s Open champions – In Gee Chun (2015), Eun-Hee Ji (2009), Ariya Jutanugarn (2018), Cristie Kerr (2007), Brittany Lang (2016), Inbee Park (2008, 2013), Sung Hyun Park (2017) and So Yeon Ryu (2011). The field features seven Texans competing in their home state, including Angela Stanford, winner of last week’s Volunteers of America Classic and runner-up at the 2003 U.S. Women’s Open.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE U.S. WOMEN’S OPEN
- This is the 75th playing of the U.S. Women’s Open
- This is the second U.S. Women’s Open to be held in Texas, joining the 1991 championship at Colonial C.C. in Fort Worth, won by Meg Mallon
- The last player to successfully defend her title is Karrie Webb, who won in 2000 and 2001
- The youngest winner of the U.S. Women’s Open is Inbee Park, who won the 2008 championship at 19 years, 11 months and 17 days of age
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias is the oldest winner, taking the 1954 U.S. Women’s Open at 43 years and 7 days old
- The 2021 U.S. Women’s Open will be held at The Olympic Club (Lake Course) in San Francisco, Calif., followed by the 2022 U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C.
LPGA Tour Release, Dec 09, 2020
