The 2008 U.S. Women's Open was the 63rd U.S. Women's Open, held June 26–29 at Interlachen Country Club in Edina, Minnesota, a suburb southwest of Minneapolis. It was the first U.S. Women's Open played at the course, which hosted the Solheim Cup in 2002. The winner was 19-year-old Inbee Park, four strokes ahead of runner-up Helen Alfredsson. The tournament was televised by ESPN and NBC Sports.

The course hosted the U.S. Open in 1930, part of the grand slam of Bobby Jones.

Field Exempt players 1. Last 10 U.S. Women's Open Champions Juli Inkster, Birdie Kim, Cristie Kerr, Hilary Lunke, Meg Mallon, Se Ri Pak, Annika Sörenstam, Karrie Webb

2. Top two finishers in the 2007 U.S. Women's Amateur and winner of the 2006 U.S. Women's Amateur Amanda Blumenherst (a), Kimberly Kim (a), Mariajo Uribe (a)

3. Last five LPGA Champions Suzann Pettersen, Yani Tseng

4. Last five Women's British Open Champions Jeong Jang, Lorena Ochoa, Sherri Steinhauer, Karen Stupples

5. Last five Kraft Nabisco Champions Grace Park, Morgan Pressel

6. From the 2007 U.S. Women's Open, the 20 lowest scorers and ties. Kyeong Bae, Paula Creamer, Julieta Granada, Amy Hung, Jimin Kang, Christina Kim, Mi Hyun Kim, Jee Young Lee, Brittany Lincicome, Catriona Matthew, Ai Miyazato, Angela Park, Inbee Park, Jiyai Shin, Angela Stanford

7. From the 2007 LPGA Tour money list, the top 40 money leaders Shi Hyun Ahn, Nicole Castrale, Laura Davies, Laura Diaz, Meaghan Francella, Natalie Gulbis, Sophie Gustafson, Rachel Hetherington, Maria Hjorth, Pat Hurst, I.K. Kim, Young Kim, Brittany Lang, Sarah Lee, Seon Hwa Lee, Na On Min, Stacy Prammanasudh, Reilley Rankin, Lindsey Wright

8. From the 2008 LPGA Tour money, the top 35 money leaders through June 1 Minea Blomqvist, Na Yeon Choi, Allison Fouch, Hee-Won Han, Song-Hee Kim, Candie Kung, Leta Lindley, Teresa Lu, Jane Park, Momoko Ueda, Sun Young Yoo

9. Winner of tournaments from the conclusion of last year's U.S. Women's Open until now Louise Friberg

10. Top 3 players from the Japan LPGA Tour, LPGA of Korea Tour, and Ladies European Tour Sun-Ju Ahn, Bettina Hauert, Jeon Mi-jeong, Eun-Hee Ji, Gwladys Nocera, Sakura Yokomine

Qualifiers

Helen Alfredsson Sarah Almond (a) Chieko Amanuma Rachel Bailey Vanessa Brockett Laurie Brower Silvia Cavalleri Jeanne Cho-Hunicke Il Mi Chung Cydney Clanton (a) Eva Dahllof Diana D'Alessio Heather Daly-Donofrio Wendy Doolan Lauren Doughtie (a) Moira Dunn Kathleen Ekey (a) Courtney Ellenbogen (a) Shanshan Feng Jamie Fischer Danah Ford Tara Goedeken (a) Anna Grzebien Nicole Hage Kim Hall Sin Ham Candy Hannemann Mina Harigae Marcy Hart Janell Howland Katherine Hull Jang Ha-na (a) Na Ri Kim Carin Koch Jessica Korda (a) Kelli Kuehne Katrina Leckovic Erynne Lee (a) Jennie Lee (a) Joanne Lee (a) Meena Lee Stacy Lewis Tiffany Lua (a) Charlotte Mayorkas Jill McGill Patricia Meunier-Lebouc Sydnee Michaels (a) Janice Moodie Paola Moreno (a) Miriam Nagl Martha Nause Liselotte Neumann Virada Nirapathpongporn Angela Oh (a) Ji Young Oh Sunny Oh Cyd Okino (a) Kristen Park (a) Emily Powers (a) Michele Redman Jean Reynolds Jennifer Rosales Kristen Samp Giulia Sergas Alena Sharp Jenny Shin (a) Ashleigh Simon Karin Sjödin Jennifer Song (a) Bomi Suh Victoria Tanco (a) Alexis Thompson (a) Sherri Turner Gina Umeck Lynn Valentine Whitney Wade Alison Walshe (a) Linda Wessberg Michelle Wie Leah Wigger Carri Wood Amy Yang Aiko Yoshida Heather Young

(a) - amateur

Course layout

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Round summaries First round Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Open kicked off on Thursday with the field playing in threesomes starting from either the first tee or the tenth tee. Featured threesomes included Annika Sörenstam, Suzann Pettersen, and Paula Creamer, ranked 2, 3, and 4 respectively in the world rankings. Sorenstam and Petterssen opened their U.S. Opens with scores of 75 (+2) and 77 (+4) respectively. Creamer shot a 70 to move three shots off the pace. The other featured threesome included number one ranked player Lorena Ochoa, defending U.S. Open champion Cristie Kerr, and 2007 U.S. Women's Amateur champion Maria José Uribe. Uribe led that group with a 69 to lead all amateurs and end the day in a tie for fourth overall; Kerr shot a 1-under 72; Ochoa had an up-and-down round of even-par 73. The rounds of the day belonged to Ji Young Oh, who had eight birdies and two bogeys and to Pat Hurst who had six birdies and an eagle. Oh and Hurst tied after Round 1 at six-under par 67.

PlacePlayerScoreTo par T1 Pat Hurst67−6 Ji Young Oh3 Song-Hee Kim68−5 T4 Louise Friberg69−4 Jiyai Shin Mariajo Uribe (a) T7 Helen Alfredsson70−3 Paula Creamer Laura Davies Catriona Matthew Linda Wessberg

Second round Friday, June 27, 2008 Saturday, June 28, 2008

With Thursday's rounds completed many well-known American players took a step down on the competition while many lesser-known and international players took a step up. A two-hour weather delay required some to finish their rounds on Saturday morning. Angela Park had an even round on Thursday, and a 6-under 67 in the second round. She held a one-stroke lead over three others: Inbee Park of Korea, Helen Alfredsson of Sweden, and the only Finnish player in the tournament, Minea Blomqvist. The two leading Americans were Paula Creamer and Cristie Kerr at 4-under 142. Both first-round leaders took a severe fall on Friday, with Ji Young Oh, who had to finish her second round on Saturday due to the weather delay, shooting a 76 and Pat Hurst turning in a 5-over 78. Many top-ranked or well-known players missed the cut, including Laura Davies (70-81), Natalie Gulbis (73-80), 13-year-old Alexis Thompson (75-77), 2003 champion and Minnesotan Hilary Lunke (74-78), Juli Inkster (74-81), and Michelle Wie (81-75).

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Angela Park73-67=140−6 T2 Helen Alfredsson70-71=141−5 Minea Blomqvist72-69=141 Inbee Park72-69=141 T5 Jeong Jang73-69=142−4 Cristie Kerr72-70=142 Candie Kung72-70=142 Paula Creamer70-72=142 T9 Stacy Lewis73-70=143−3 Momoko Ueda72-71=143 Teresa Lu71-72=143 Ai Miyazato71-72=143 Louise Friberg69-74=143 Jiyai Shin69-74=143 Mariajo Uribe (a)69-74=143 Ji Young Oh67-72=143

Third round Saturday, June 28, 2008 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Stacy Lewis73-70-67=210−92 Paula Creamer70-72-69=211−8T3 Helen Alfredsson70-71-71=212−7 Inbee Park72-69-71=2125 I.K. Kim71-73-69=213−66 Mi Hyun Kim72-72-70=214−5T7 Mariajo Uribe (a)69-74-72=215−4 Angela Park73-67-75=215T9 Young Kim74-71-71=216−3 Momoko Ueda72-71-73=216 Teresa Lu71-72-73=216 Jeong Jang73-69-74=216

Final round Sunday, June 29, 2008 PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Inbee Park72-69-71-71=283−9585,0002 Helen Alfredsson70-71-71-75=287−5350,000T3 Angela Park73-67-75-73=288−4162,487 In-Kyung Kim71-73-69-75=288 Stacy Lewis73-70-67-78=288T6 Giulia Sergas73-74-72-70=289−394,117 Nicole Castrale74-70-74-71=289 Mi Hyun Kim72-72-70-75=289 Paula Creamer70-72-69-78=289T10 Teresa Lu71-72-73-74=290−2 75,734 Mariajo Uribe (a)69-74-72-75=2900 Source:

Scorecard Final round Hole 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 101112131415161718Par455344434 543534445 Park −8−9−9−9−9−8−8−7−7−7−8−8−9−9−9−9−8−9 Alfredsson −7−8−7−6−5−5−5−4−4−4−4−3−5−5−5−4−4−5 I.K. Kim −6−7−6−6−5−4−4−3−3−3−4−3−4−5−4−5−3−4 Lewis −9−7−7−7−7−7−7−6−5−5−5−4−5−5−4−4−4−4 Creamer −8−6−6−7−7−6−6−5−3−3−3−2−2−2−2−3−3−3 M.H. Kim −4−4−4−5−5−4−4−2−3−3−4−5−4−4−4−4−3−3 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par Source:

References

External links

U.S. Women's Open – past champions – 2008