2019 ANA Inspiration

2019 ANA Inspiration
Tournament information
Dates	April 4–7, 2019
Location	Rancho Mirage, California; 33°47′53″N 116°25′59″W / 33.798°N 116.433°W
Course(s)	Mission Hills Country Club; Dinah Shore; Tournament Course
Tour(s)	LPGA Tour
Format	Stroke play - 72 holes
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,763 yards (6,184 m)
Field	112 players, 77 after cut
Cut	149 (+5)
Prize fund	$3.0 million
Winner's share	450,000
Champion
	Ko Jin-young
	278 (−10)
Location map
	Rancho Mirage Location in the United States Rancho Mirage Location in California
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The 2019 ANA Inspiration was the 48th ANA Inspiration LPGA golf tournament, held April 4–7 at the Dinah Shore Tournament Course of Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. It was its 37th year as a major championship, and Golf Channel televised the event for the ninth consecutive year.

Pernilla Lindberg missed the cut, the first defending champion not to play the weekend in six years.

Ko Jin-young won her first major by three strokes over Lee Mi-hyang.^[1]

Field

Players who have qualified for the event are listed below. Players are listed under the first category in which they qualified; additional qualifying categories are shown in parentheses.^[2]

1. Active LPGA Tour Hall of Fame members (must have participated in ten official LPGA Tour tournaments within the 12 months prior to the commitment deadline)

Juli Inkster (2)

2. Winners of all previous ANA Inspirations

Lydia Ko (4,5,6,8,9), Stacy Lewis (5), Brittany Lincicome (5,8), Pernilla Lindberg (5,6,8), Inbee Park (3,5,6,8,9), Morgan Pressel, Ryu So-yeon (5,7,8,9), Lexi Thompson (5,6,7,8,9), Yani Tseng, Karrie Webb

Yoo Sun-young (6) did not play

3. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open, Women's PGA Championship, and Women's British Open in the previous five years

Chun In-gee (4,8,9), Georgia Hall (5,7,8,9,10-LET), Brooke Henderson (5,8,9), Ariya Jutanugarn (5,6,7,8,9), Danielle Kang (5,7,8,9), In-Kyung Kim (5,8,9), Brittany Lang (5), Mo Martin (7,8), Park Sung-hyun (5,6,8,9), Michelle Wie (5,8)

4. Winners of The Evian Championship in the previous five years

Kim Hyo-joo (7,8), Anna Nordqvist (5,8), Angela Stanford (5,6,7,8)

5. Winners of official LPGA Tour tournaments from the 2016 ANA Inspiration through the week immediately preceding the 2019 ANA Inspiration

Marina Alex (8,9), Céline Boutier (8), Carlota Ciganda (7,8,9), Shanshan Feng (8,9), Nasa Hataoka (7,8,9), Charley Hull (6,8,9), Ji Eun-hee (8,9), Moriya Jutanugarn (6,8,9), Cristie Kerr (8), Kim Sei-young (7,8,9), Katherine Kirk (8), Ko Jin-young (8,9,12), Nelly Korda (6,8,9), Jessica Korda (6,7,8,9), Lee Mi-hyang (8), Minjee Lee (8,9), Mirim Lee (8), Gaby López (8), Caroline Masson (6,8), Haru Nomura, Annie Park (8), Jenny Shin (8), Thidapa Suwannapura (8), Amy Yang (8,9)

Jang Ha-na did not play.

6. All players who finished in the top-20 in the previous year's ANA Inspiration

Brittany Altomare (8), Jodi Ewart Shadoff (8), Hannah Green (8), Lee Jeong-eun (9,10-KLPGA), Azahara Muñoz (8), Amy Olson (7,8), Ryann O'Toole (8), Pornanong Phatlum (7,8), Beatriz Recari, Jennifer Song (8), Ayako Uehara (8)

7. All players who finished in the top-5 of the previous year's U.S. Women's Open, Women's PGA Championship, Women's British Open and The Evian Championship

Austin Ernst (8,9), Mamiko Higa, Wei-Ling Hsu (8), Sarah Jane Smith (8), Patty Tavatanakit (a,15), Angel Yin (8)

8. Top-80 on the previous year's season-ending LPGA Tour official money list

Aditi Ashok, Ashleigh Buhai, Pei-Yun Chien, Chella Choi, Jacqui Concolino, Lindy Duncan, Sandra Gal, Jaye Marie Green, Haeji Kang, Megan Khang, Bronte Law, Lee Jeong-eun, Yu Liu, Ally McDonald, Su-Hyun Oh, Jane Park, Park Hee-young, Madelene Sagström, Lizette Salas (9), Mariah Stackhouse, Emma Talley, Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras, Maria Torres, Mariajo Uribe, Sakura Yokomine

Caroline Inglis did not play.

9. Top-30 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of a March 11, 2019

Jiyai Shin (10-JLPGA)

Ahn Sun-ju (10-JLPGA) and Choi Hye-jin did not play.

10. Top-2 players from the previous year's season-ending Ladies European Tour Order of Merit, LPGA of Japan Tour money list and LPGA of Korea Tour money list

Anne Van Dam

Bae Seon-woo did not play.

11. Top-20 players plus ties on the current year LPGA Tour official money list at the end of the last official tournament prior to the current ANA Inspiration, not otherwise qualified above, provided such players are within the top-80 positions on the current year LPGA Tour official money list at the beginning of the tournament competition

Kristen Gillman, M. J. Hur, Kim Kaufman, Sarah Kemp, Alison Lee, Lin Xiyu, Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Sarah Schmelzel, Alena Sharp, Marissa Steen, Lauren Stephenson, Linnea Strom, Charlotte Thomas, Jing Yan

12. Previous year's Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year

Already qualified

13. Previous year's U.S. Women's Amateur champion, provided she is still an amateur at the beginning of tournament competition

Kristen Gillman turned professional, forfeiting this exemption, but she qualified under category 11.

14. Any LPGA Member who did not compete in the previous year's ANA Inspiration major due to injury, illness or maternity, who subsequently received a medical/maternity extension of membership from the LPGA in the previous calendar year, provided they were otherwise qualified to compete in the previous year's ANA Inspiration

Laura Gonzalez Escallon, Gerina Piller

15. Up to six sponsor invitations for top-ranked amateur players

Rachel Heck (a), Frida Kinhult (a), Xin Kou (a), Albane Valenzuela (a)^[3]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 4, 2019

Ally McDonald shot a 4-under-par 68 to take a one-stroke lead over four players, including 2014 champion Lexi Thompson. Defending champion Pernilla Lindberg was tied for 42nd at +1.^[4]^[5]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Ally McDonald	68	−4
T2	Kim Hyo-joo	69	−3
	Ko Jin-young
	Linnea Ström
	Lexi Thompson
T6	Cristie Kerr	70	−2
	Lydia Ko
	Jessica Korda
	Lee Mi-hyang
	Lin Xiyu
	Jane Park
	Lizette Salas
	Lauren Stephenson
	Yan Jing
	Amy Yang

Source:^[4]

Second round

Friday, April 5, 2019

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	In-Kyung Kim	71-65=136	−8
2	Katherine Kirk	71-68=139	−5
T3	Ko Jin-young	69-71=140	−4
T3	Ally McDonald	68-72=140	−4
T5	Charley Hull	72-69=141	−3
	Danielle Kang	72-69=141
	Park Sung-hyun	71-70=141
	Lexi Thompson	69-72=141
	Jing Yan	70-71=141
T10	Lee Jeong-eun	71-71=142	−2
T10	Amy Yang	70-72=142	−2

Source:^[4]

Third round

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Ko Jin-young	69-71-68=208	−8
2	In-Kyung Kim	71-65-73=209	−7
T3	Danielle Kang	72-69-70=211	−5
T3	Lee Mi-hyang	70-73-68=211	−5
T5	Katherine Kirk	71-68-74=213	−3
	Lee Jeong-eun	71-71-71=213
	Alena Sharp	76-70-67=213
T8	Brooke Henderson	71-72-71=214	−2
	Jessica Korda	70-73-71=214
	Stacy Lewis	71-73-70=214
	Lin Xiyu	70-74-70=214
	Ally McDonald	68-72-74=214
	Park Sung-hyun	71-70-73=214
	Angel Yin	71-74-69=214

Source:^[4]

Final round

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Place	Player	Score	To par	Prize money (US$)
1	Ko Jin-young	69-71-68-70=278	−10	450,000
2	Lee Mi-hyang	70-73-68-70=281	−7	275,721
3	Lexi Thompson	69-72-74-67=282	−6	200,016
T4	Carlota Ciganda	72-72-71-68=283	−5	139,634
T4	In-Kyung Kim	71-65-73-74=283	−5	139,634
T6	Kristen Gillman	74-71-73-66=284	−4	74,472
	Danielle Kang	72-69-70-73=284
	Kim Hyo-joo	69-76-70-69=284
	Jessica Korda	70-73-71-70=284
	Lee Jeong-eun	71-71-71-71=284
	Ally McDonald	68-72-74-70=284

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5
Ko	−8	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−9	−9	−8	−9	−9	−10
M-h Lee	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7
Thompson	−2	−2	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−4	−3	−4	−4	−5	−6	−6	−6
Ciganda	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5
Kim	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey

Source:^[4]

References

^ "Jin Young Ko wins ANA Inspiration for first major". ESPN. Associated Press. April 7, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
^ "Final Player Field". ANA Inspiration. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
^ "2019 ANA Inspiration Coveted Amateur Invitations Spots Announced". LPGA. February 4, 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "ANA Inspiration (Leaderboard)". LPGA. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
^ "Late birdie gives McDonald ANA Inspiration lead". ESPN. Associated Press. April 4, 2019.

External links

[1] "Jin Young Ko wins ANA Inspiration for first major". ESPN. Associated Press. April 7, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2019.

[2] "Final Player Field". ANA Inspiration. Retrieved March 28, 2019.

[3] "2019 ANA Inspiration Coveted Amateur Invitations Spots Announced". LPGA. February 4, 2019.

[ldbd-4] "ANA Inspiration (Leaderboard)". LPGA. Retrieved April 5, 2019.

[5] "Late birdie gives McDonald ANA Inspiration lead". ESPN. Associated Press. April 4, 2019.

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