The 2005 U.S. Women's Open was the 60th U.S. Women's Open, held June 23–26 at Cherry Hills Country Club in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, a suburb south of Denver. The par-71 course was set at , at an average elevation over above sea level. The event was televised by ESPN and NBC Sports.
Birdie Kim holed out from a greenside bunker on the 72nd hole to win her only major (and only LPGA) title, two strokes ahead of runners-up Brittany Lang and Morgan Pressel, both teenage amateurs from the United States. In the final pairing as a 54-hole co-leader, Pressel needed to hole her chip shot to tie, but it went past and she bogeyed. Lang had earlier missed a par putt from . Lorena Ochoa made four birdies on the back nine and led with one hole remaining, but made a quadruple-bogey on the 72nd hole to finish four strokes behind.
Pressel, 17, held a share of the 54-hole lead, with Karen Stupples and amateur Michelle Wie, age 15; Kim was one stroke back in a three-way tie for fourth, with 18-year-old Paula Creamer and Young Jo.
This was the first U.S. Women's Open at Cherry Hills, which previously hosted three U.S. Opens (1938, 1960, 1978) and two PGA Championships (1941, 1985).
Course layout
Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotalYards3464153274295391583742064183,2124145221793844331874285314593,5376,749Par444453434354534434543671 Source: Average elevation is over above sea level
Round summaries
First round Thursday, June 23, 2005 Place Player Score To par T1 Angela Stanford69−2 Michelle Wie (a) T3 Natalie Gulbis70−1 Liselotte Neumann Nicole Perrot Young-A YangT7 Sophie Gustafson71E Meg Mallon Morgan Pressel (a) Annika Sörenstam Source:
Second round Friday, June 24, 2005 Place Player Score To par1 Nicole Perrot70-70=140 −2 T2 Lorena Ochoa74-68=142E Michelle Wie (a) 69-73=142 T4 Paula Creamer74-69=143 +1 Rachel Hetherington74-69=143 Angela Stanford69-74=143 T7 Karine Icher69-75=144 +2 Morgan Pressel (a)71-73=144 T9 Helen Alfredsson72-73=145 +3 Amie Cochran (a) 76-69=145 Natalie Gulbis70-75=145 Young Jo74-71=145 Rosie Jones73-72=145 Lorie Kane74-71=145 Cristie Kerr74-71=145 Mi-Hyun Kim72-73=145 Meg Mallon71-74=145 Catriona Matthew73-72=145 Liselotte Neumann72-73=145 Se Ri Pak74-71=145 Karen Stupples75-70=145 Source:
Third round Saturday, June 25, 2005 Place Player Score To par T1 Morgan Pressel (a)71-73-70=214 +1 Karen Stupples75-70-69=214 Michelle Wie (a)69-73-72=214 T4 Paula Creamer74-69-72=215 +2 Young Jo74-71-70=215 Birdie Kim74-72-69=215 T7 Young Kim73-73-70=216 +3 Angela Stanford69-74-73=216 T9 Jamie Hullett 75-72-70=217 +4 Cristie Kerr74-71-72=217 Candie Kung73-73-71=217 Source:
Final round Sunday, June 26, 2005 Place Player Score To par Money ($)1 Birdie Kim74-72-69-72=287+3560,000 T2 Brittany Lang (a)69-77-72-71=289+50 Morgan Pressel (a)71-73-70-75=289T4 Natalie Gulbis70-75-74-71=290 +6272,723 Lorie Kane74-71-76-69=290T6 Karine Icher69-75-75-72=291 +7116,310 Young Jo74-71-70-76=291 Candie Kung73-73-71-74=291 Lorena Ochoa74-68-77-72=291T10 Cristie Kerr74-71-72-75=292+880,523 Angela Stanford69-74-73-76=292 Karen Stupples75-70-69-78=292 Source:
Scorecard Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 131415161718Par444453434 453443454 Kim +3+3+3+3+2+3+2+2+2+3+2+2+2+3+3+4+4+3 Lang +5+6+6+7+7+8+7+7+7+6+6+5+5+5+5+5+4+5 Pressel +1EE+1+2+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+4+4+4+4+4+5 Jo +3+4+4+4+4+4+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+6+6+6+7 Ochoa +6+6+6+7+7+7+7+7+7+6+5+5+4+4+4+3+3+7 Stanford +3+3+4+4+5+5+4+5+7+6+6+6+6+6+7+7+8+8 Stupples +2+1+1+1+2+3+4+4+5+5+5+6+6+7+7+7+7+8 Creamer +4+4+4+4+6+6+6+6+7+7+6+6+6+6+6+7+10+10 Sörenstam +7+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+9+9+8+8+8+8+9+10+11+12 Wie +3+3+4+5+5+5+5+6+8+9+8+9+11+11+12+11+11+12 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par EagleBirdieBogeyDouble bogeyTriple bogey+ Source:
References
External links
Golf Observer final leaderboard U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship U.S. Women's Open – past champions – 2005