Golf at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's individual

The women's golf tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was played at the Olympic Golf Course (), built within the Reserva de Marapendi in the Barra da Tijuca zone, between 17 and 20 August 2016. It was the first women's golf tournament at the Olympics since 1900.

Sixty players played four rounds of stroke play. The field included 57 professionals and three amateurs.

The event was won by Inbee Park of South Korea with a score −16, defeating Lydia Ko from New Zealand and China's Shanshan Feng who won silver and bronze respectively.

The medals were presented by Dick Pound, IOC member, Canada and Antony Scanlon, Secretary General of the IGF.

Background The first Olympic golf tournaments took place at the second modern Games in Paris 1900. Men's and women's events were held. Golf was featured again at the next Games, St. Louis 1904 with men's events (an individual tournament as well as a team event). The 1908 Games in London were also supposed to have a men's golf competition, but a dispute led to a boycott by all of the host nation's golfers, leaving only a single international competitor and resulting in the cancellation of the event. Golf would disappear from the Olympic programme from then until returning with this event.

While many of the top male players withdrew over concerns about Zika fever, few women did. The field included the top 9 ranked golfers, led by #1-ranked Lydia Ko of New Zealand.

32 of the 34 participating nations were making their debut. The United States and France were the only two nations to have competed at the only previous edition of the event, in 1900; both made their second appearance in 2016.

Qualification

Countries were permitted to qualify up to four athletes based on the world rankings. South Korea was the only nation to qualify all four athletes. The top 60 golfers, subject to limits per nation and guarantees for the host and continental representation, were selected. A nation could have three or four golfers if they were all in the top 15 of the rankings; otherwise, each nation was limited to two golfers. One spot was guaranteed for the host nation and five spots were guaranteed to ensure that each Olympic continent had at least one representative. Neither the host nor the continental guarantees turned out to be necessary, with Brazil qualifying 2 golfers and each continent having at least 3 golfers qualified.

Competition format

The tournament was a four-round stroke play tournament, with the lowest score over the total 72 holes winning.

Schedule

All times are Brasília Time (UTC-03:00)

Date Time Round Wednesday, 17 August 2016 First round Thursday, 18 August 2016 Second round Friday, 19 August 2016 Third round Saturday, 20 August 2016 Final round

Results

First round Wednesday, 17 August 2016

Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand shot a 6-under-par 65 to lead by one stroke over South Koreans Kim Sei-young and Inbee Park.

Rank Player Nation Score To par1 Ariya Jutanugarn 65 −6T2 Kim Sei-young 66 −5Inbee Park T4 Nicole Broch Larsen 67 −4Carlota Ciganda Candie Kung T7 Aditi Ashok 68 −3Charley Hull Azahara Muñoz Lexi Thompson

Second round Thursday, 18 August 2016

Inbee Park of South Korea shot a second straight round of 66 to take the lead at 10-under-par, 132. Stacy Lewis of the United States shot the low round of the day, an 8-under-par 63, to climb to second place, one stroke behind Park. First round leader Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand shot an even-par 71 to drop to a tie for 8th.

Rank Player Nation Score To par1 Inbee Park 66-66=132 −102 Stacy Lewis 70-63=133 −9T3 Brooke Henderson 70-64=134 −8Charley Hull 68-66=134T5 Nicole Broch Larsen 67-68=135 −7Candie Kung 67-68=135Marianne Skarpnord 69-66=135T8 Aditi Ashok 68-68=136 −6Chun In-gee 70-66=136Ariya Jutanugarn 65-71=136Minjee Lee 69-67=136Gerina Piller 69-67=136

Third round Friday, 19 August 2016

Inbee Park of South Korea maintained her lead by shooting a 1-under-par 70. Lydia Ko shot the low round of the day, a 6-under-par 65 to move into a tie for second place with American Gerina Piller. First round leader Ariya Jutanugarn withdrew after 13 holes with a knee injury.

Rank Player Nation Score To par1 Inbee Park 66-66-70=202 −11T2 Lydia Ko 69-70-65=204 −9Gerina Piller 69-67-68=2044 Shanshan Feng 70-67-68=205 −8T5 Chun In-gee 70-66-72=208 −5Charley Hull 68-66-74=208Amy Yang 73-65-70=208T8 Brooke Henderson 70-64-75=209 −4Minjee Lee 69-67-73=209Stacy Lewis 70-63-76=209Anna Nordqvist 71-70-68=209Su-Hyun Oh 71-72-66=209Suzann Pettersen 71-69-69=209Paula Reto 74-67-68=209

Final round Saturday, 20 August 2016

Inbee Park shot her third five-under-par 66 of the tournament to win the gold medal. Lydia Ko (silver) and Shanshan Feng (bronze) of China joined Park in the medals with final rounds of two-under-par 69.

Rank Player Nation Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total To par Inbee Park 66 66 70 66 268 −16 Lydia Ko 69 70 65 69 273 −11 Shanshan Feng 70 67 68 69 274 −10 4 Stacy Lewis 70 63 76 66 275 −9Haru Nomura 69 69 72 65Amy Yang 73 65 70 67 7 Brooke Henderson 70 64 75 67 276 −8Charley Hull 68 66 74 68Minjee Lee 69 67 73 67 10 Suzann Pettersen 71 69 69 68 277 −7 11 Anna Nordqvist 71 70 68 69 278 −6Gerina Piller 69 67 68 74 13 Chun In-gee 70 66 72 71 279 −5Nanna Koerstz Madsen 69 69 72 69Su-Hyun Oh 71 72 66 70 16 Teresa Lu 70 67 73 70 280 −4Paula Reto 74 67 68 71Maria Verchenova 75 70 73 62 19 Lexi Thompson 68 71 76 66 281 −3Mariajo Uribe 70 71 75 66 21 Leona Maguire (a) 74 65 74 69 282 −2Caroline Masson 69 69 75 69Azahara Muñoz 68 69 73 72Albane Valenzuela (a) 71 68 72 71 25 Sandra Gal 71 74 69 69 283 −1Kim Sei-young 66 73 73 71Pornanong Phatlum 71 72 69 71Marianne Skarpnord 69 66 75 73 29 Catriona Matthew 71 66 77 70 284 30 Alena Sharp 72 69 75 69 285 +1 31 Laetitia Beck 75 70 71 70 286 +2Candie Kung 67 68 76 75Pernilla Lindberg 74 73 69 70Gaby López 71 67 76 72Stephanie Meadow 77 66 71 72 36 Nicole Broch Larsen 67 68 81 71 287 +3 37 Tiffany Chan (a) 71 75 73 69 288 +4 38 Xi Yu Lin 72 74 74 69 289 +5 39 Carlota Ciganda 67 72 78 73 290 +6Gwladys Nocera 73 71 74 72 41 Aditi Ashok 68 68 79 76 291 +7 42 Shiho Oyama 70 71 77 74 292 +8 43 Christine Wolf 71 69 77 76 293 +9 44 Julieta Granada 71 69 76 78 294 +10Karine Icher 73 72 73 76Alejandra Llaneza 73 68 73 80Ursula Wikström 69 71 81 73 48 Klára Spilková 77 73 71 74 295 +11Noora Tamminen 73 76 72 74 50 Ashleigh Simon 75 69 77 75 296 +12 51 Kelly Tan 78 70 76 73 297 +13 52 Miriam Nagl 79 77 72 70 298 +14 53 Victoria Lovelady 79 75 76 70 300 +16Giulia Molinaro 78 78 74 70 55 Giulia Sergas 77 74 77 74 302 +18 56 Chloe Leurquin 79 78 71 75 303 +19 57 Fabienne In-Albon 74 78 75 79 306 +22 58 Michelle Koh 79 71 76 82 308 +24 59 Maha Haddioui 82 76 80 77 315 +31 — Ariya Jutanugarn 65 71 136 −6

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