Dates June 9–12, 2016 Organized by PGA of America Format Stroke play - 72 holes | Location Sammamish, Washington Tour(s) LPGA Tour | |
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Course(s) Sahalee Country Club
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The 2016 KPMG Women's PGA Championship was the 62nd Women's PGA Championship, played June 9–12 at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle. Brooke Henderson, 18, won her first major title with a birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with top-ranked Lydia Ko. It was the second win in a major by a Canadian and the first in 48 years. Henderson and Ko both had bogey-free final rounds with scores of 65 (–6) and 67 (–4), respectively.
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Known as the LPGA Championship through 2014, it was the second of five major championships on the LPGA Tour during the 2016 season. This was the second year that the championship was organized by the PGA of America, and it was broadcast by Golf Channel and NBC.
Sahalee hosted the PGA Championship in 1998, the first of three majors won by Vijay Singh. It was scheduled to host again in 2010, but the PGA of America reversed its decision and moved it to Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. The USGA helped fill that void with a senior major at Sahalee, the U.S. Senior Open in 2010, won by Bernhard Langer.
The Seattle area is an annual stop on the PGA Tour Champions with the Boeing Classic at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge in late August. The area formerly hosted the Safeco Classic, an LPGA Tour event from 1982 through 1999, held in September at Meridian Valley Country Club in Kent, southeast of Seattle.
Course layout
Field
The field included 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 were eligible based on the following criteria:
1. Active LPGA Hall of Fame members
Juli Inkster (2), Se Ri Pak (2), Karrie Webb (2,4,5)
2. Past winners of the Women's PGA Championship
Laura Davies, Shanshan Feng (3,4,6), Cristie Kerr (4,6,8), Anna Nordqvist (4,5,6,8), Inbee Park (3,4,5,6), Suzann Pettersen (3,4,5,6,8), Yani Tseng (3)
3. Professionals who have won an LPGA major championship in the previous five years and during the current year
Choi Na-yeon (4,6), Chun In-gee (4,6), Kim Hyo-joo (4,5,6), Lydia Ko (4,6), Stacy Lewis (4,6,8), Brittany Lincicome (4,5,6,8), Mo Martin (4), Ryu So-yeon (4,6), Lexi Thompson (4,5,6,8), Michelle Wie (4,8), Yoo Sun-young
Jiyai Shin (6) did not play.
4. Professionals who have won an official LPGA tournament in the previous two calendar years and during the current year
Baek Kyu-jung, Chella Choi, Paula Creamer (8), Austin Ernst, Brooke Henderson (5,6), M. J. Hur, Jang Ha-na (6), Ariya Jutanugarn (6), Christina Kim, Kim Sei-young (5,6), Jessica Korda (6), Lee Mi-hyang, Minjee Lee (6), Mirim Lee, Haru Nomura (6), Lee-Anne Pace, Lizette Salas (8), Jenny Shin (6), Kris Tamulis, Amy Yang (6)
Ahn Sun-ju did not play.
5. Professionals who finished top-10 and ties at the previous year's Women's PGA Championship
Gerina Piller (6,8), Morgan Pressel (6,8)
6. Professionals ranked No. 1–30 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of May 17, 2016
Charley Hull (8), Alison Lee (8)
Lee Bo-mee, Teresa Lu, and Park Sung-hyun did not play.
7. The top eight finishers at the 2015 LPGA T&CP National Championship
Jean Bartholomew, Jennifer Bermingham, Jessica Carafiello, Elizabeth Caron, Lisa Grimes, Karen Paolozzi, Laurie Rinker, Hillery Wilson
8. Members of the European and United States Solheim Cup teams in 2015
Carlota Ciganda, Sandra Gal, Caroline Hedwall, Karine Icher, Brittany Lang, Caroline Masson, Catriona Matthew, Azahara Muñoz, Gwladys Nocera, Melissa Reid, Angela Stanford
9. Maximum of two sponsor invites
Nicole Broch Larsen, Klára Spilková
10. LPGA members who have committed to the event, ranked in the order of their position on the 2016 official money list through the conclusion of the ShopRite LPGA Classic
Marina Alex, Brittany Altomare, Amy Anderson, Laetitia Beck, Christel Boeljon, Katie Burnett, Dori Carter, Sandra Changkija, Ssu-Chia Cheng, Cydney Clanton, Holly Clyburn, Jacqui Concolino, Brianna Do, Lindy Duncan, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Simin Feng, Julieta Granada, Jaye Marie Green, Casey Grice, Mina Harigae, Celine Herbin, Nannette Hill, Wei-Ling Hsu, Vicky Hurst, Daniela Iacobelli, Ji Eun-hee, Tiffany Joh, Felicity Johnson, Jennifer Johnson, Moriya Jutanugarn, Danielle Kang, Haeji Kang, Kim Kaufman, Sarah Kemp, Megan Khang, In-Kyung Kim, SooBin Kim, Katherine Kirk, P.K. Kongkraphan, Stephanie Kono, Candie Kung, Min Seo Kwak, Maude-Aimee Leblanc, Ilhee Lee, Min Lee, Amelia Lewis, Xi Yu Lin, Pernilla Lindberg, Alejandra Llaneza, Gaby López, Lee Lopez, Briana Mao, Sydnee Michaels, Ai Miyazato, Mika Miyazato, Giulia Molinaro, Becky Morgan, Belen Mozo, Benyapa Niphatsophon, Su-Hyun Oh, Oh Ji-young, Ryann O'Toole, Annie Park, Park Hee-young, Jane Park, Sadena Parks, Pornanong Phatlum, Beatriz Recari, Paula Reto, Samantha Richdale, Marion Ricordeau, Rachel Rohanna, Giulia Sergas, Alena Sharp, Kelly Shon, Ashleigh Simon, Sarah Jane Smith, Christine Song, Jennifer Song, Nontaya Srisawang, Bertine Strauss, Budsabakorn Sukapan, Kelly Tan, Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras, Ayako Uehara, Mariajo Uribe, Cheyenne Woods, Jing Yan, Julie Yang, Sakura Yokomine
Joanna Klatten and Perrine Delacour did not play.
11. The remainder of the field will be filled by members who have committed to the event, ranked in the order of their position on the 2016 LPGA Priority List as of the commitment deadline
None needed
First round
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Second round
Friday, June 10, 2016
Third round
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Final round
Sunday, June 12, 2016
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Scorecard
Final round
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
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Playoff
The sudden-death playoff lasted one hole, played on the par-4 18th hole, an uphill dogleg left at 421 yards (385 m). Both players hit the green with their approach shots from the fairway. Ko had a putt of about 20 feet (6 m) that slipped by the left side. Henderson's birdie putt from less than three feet (0.9 m) won the title.