2024 U.S. Women's Open

The 2024 U.S. Women's Open was the 79th U.S. Women's Open, played May 30 to June 2 at the Lancaster Country Club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

The purse for the tournament was a record $12 million. The winner's share is now 20% for the men's and women's Open Championships, earning the Women's Open winner $2.4 million.

Yuka Saso won by three strokes over compatriot Hinako Shibuno. It was Saso's second U.S. Women's Open win, having also won in 2021. It was her second major win and second LPGA Tour win.

Venue
The course had previously hosted the 2015 U.S. Women's Open.

Field
The field for the U.S. Women's Open was made up of players who gained entry through qualifying events and those who were exempt from qualifying. The exemption criteria included provision for recent major champions, winners of major amateur events, and leading players in the Women's World Golf Rankings.

The USGA accepted 1,897 entries for the championship.

Exemptions
This list details the exemption criteria for the 2024 U.S. Women's Open and the players exempt. Many players were exempt in multiple categories.

1. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open for the last 10 years (2014–2023)


 * Chun In-gee (7,17)
 * Allisen Corpuz (2,10,17)
 * Ariya Jutanugarn (10,17)
 * Kim A-lim (17)
 * Brittany Lang
 * Minjee Lee (8,10,11,17)
 * Lee Jeong-eun
 * Yuka Saso (10,17)


 * Park Sung-hyun and Michelle Wie West did not play

2. From the 2023 U.S. Women's Open, the 10 lowest scorers and anyone tying for 10th place


 * Ayaka Furue (10,16,17)
 * Nasa Hataoka (10,17)
 * Charley Hull (10,17)
 * Kim Hyo-joo (10,11,17)
 * Ryu Hae-ran (10,11,17)
 * Jiyai Shin (17)
 * Maja Stark (10,17)
 * Bailey Tardy (11,16)
 * Rose Zhang (10,17)

3. Winner of the 2023 U.S. Senior Women's Open
 * Trish Johnson did not play

4. Winner of the 2023 U.S. Women's Amateur
 * Megan Schofill (a)

5. Winners of the 2023 U.S. Girls' Junior and U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur and the 2023 U.S. Women's Amateur runner-up (must be an amateur)


 * Kimberly Dinh (a)
 * Kiara Romero (a)
 * Latanna Stone (a)

6. Winners of the Chevron Championship (2020–2024)


 * Nelly Korda (7,10,11,16,17)
 * Jennifer Kupcho (17)
 * Patty Tavatanakit (11,16,17)


 * Mirim Lee and Lilia Vu (9,10,11,17) did not play

7. Winners of the Women's PGA Championship (2019–2023)


 * Hannah Green (10,11,16,17)
 * Kim Sei-young (17)
 * Yin Ruoning (10,17)

8. Winners of The Evian Championship (2019–2023)


 * Céline Boutier (10,11,16,17)
 * Brooke Henderson (10,16,17)
 * Ko Jin-young (10,17)

9. Winners of the Women’s British Open (2019–2023)


 * Ashleigh Buhai (10,17)
 * Anna Nordqvist (17)
 * Sophia Popov
 * Hinako Shibuno

10. The top 30 point leaders from the 2023 LPGA Race to the CME Globe Final Points.


 * Carlota Ciganda (17)
 * Linn Grant (11,17)
 * Georgia Hall (17)
 * Megan Khang (11,17)
 * Cheyenne Knight (17)
 * Alison Lee (17)
 * Lin Xiyu (17)
 * Leona Maguire (17)
 * Atthaya Thitikul (17)
 * Amy Yang (11,17)
 * Angel Yin (11,17)

11. Winners of individual LPGA co-sponsored events, whose victories were considered official, from the conclusion of the 2023 U.S. Women's Open to the initiation of the 2024 U.S. Women's Open (only events that awarded a full point allocation for the Race to the CME Globe)


 * Mone Inami
 * Lydia Ko (16,17)
 * Alexa Pano
 * Chanettee Wannasaen (17)

12. Winner of the 2024 Augusta National Women's Amateur (must be an amateur)
 * Lottie Woad (a)

13. Winner of the 2023 Women's Amateur Championship (must be an amateur)
 * Chiara Horder (a)

14. Winner of the 2023 Mark H. McCormack Medal (No. 1 in World Amateur Golf Ranking; must be an amateur)
 * Ingrid Lindblad (a)

15. Winner of the 2024 NCAA Division I Individual Golf Championship (must be an amateur)
 * Adela Cernousek (a)

16. From the 2024 Race to CME Globe, the top 10 point leaders as of April 3, 2024


 * Lee Mi-hyang (17)
 * Sarah Schmelzel (17)

17. From the current Women's World Golf Rankings, the top 75 players and anyone tying for 75th place as of April 3, 2024


 * Aditi Ashok
 * Choi Hye-jin
 * Gemma Dryburgh
 * Jodi Ewart Shadoff
 * Ally Ewing
 * Alexandra Försterling
 * Im Jin-hee
 * Akie Iwai
 * Chisato Iwai
 * Sora Kamiya
 * Danielle Kang
 * Kim Su-ji
 * Kim Min-byeol
 * Sakura Koiwai
 * Andrea Lee
 * Lee So-mi
 * Gaby López
 * Yuna Nishimura
 * Ryann O'Toole
 * Park Hyun-kyung
 * Madelene Sagström
 * Mao Saigo
 * Kokona Sakurai
 * Jenny Shin
 * Ai Suzuki
 * Lexi Thompson
 * Albane Valenzuela
 * Miyū Yamashita


 * Bang Shin-sil, Hwang You-min, Lee Da-yeon, Lee Ye-won, Park Ji-young, Park Min-ji did not play.

18. From the current Women's World Golf Rankings, the top 75 players and anyone tying for 75th place as of May 27, 2024 (if not previously exempt)


 * Lauren Coughlin
 * Esther Henseleit
 * Gabriela Ruffels
 * Rio Takeda

19. Special exemptions
 * None

Qualifying
Qualifying took place April 15 to May 20, 2024, via 36-hole stroke-play qualifiers at 26 different sites, 23 of them in the United States and one each in Germany, Canada and Japan.

Alternates who gained entry
The following players gained a place in the field having finished as the leading alternates in the specified final qualifying events:


 * Harriet Lynch
 * Sarah Kemp
 * Agathe Laisné
 * Amelia Lewis
 * Stephanie Meadow
 * Yealimi Noh
 * An Na-rin
 * Junia Gabasa (a)
 * Ssu-Chia Cheng
 * Julia Misemer (a)

First round
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Tee times were assigned to 134 professionals and 22 amateurs. Only four players scored under par for the round, led by Yuka Saso at −2. The scoring average for the round was 75.2, more than five strokes over par. The top-10 players in the Women's World Golf Rankings averaged 75.5, including a round of 80 by top-ranked Nelly Korda, who scored a septuple bogey on her third hole (the par-3, 12th hole). Three amateurs made the top-10 including 15-year-old Asterisk Talley.

Second round
Friday, May 31, 2024

Third round
Saturday, June 1, 2024

71 professionals and 4 amateurs survived Friday's cut in order to play the weekend.

Final round
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Scorecard
Final round

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par


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