2025 U.S. Women's Open

2025 U.S. Women's Open presented by Ally
Tournament information
DatesMay 29 – June 1, 2025
LocationErin, Wisconsin, U.S.
43°14′42″N 88°23′42″W / 43.245°N 88.395°W / 43.245; -88.395
Course(s)Erin Hills
Organized byUSGA
Tour(s)LPGA Tour
Statistics
Par72
Length6,829 yards (6,244 m)
Field156 players
60 after cut
Cut145 (+1)
Prize fund$12,000,000
Winner's share$2,400,000
Champion
Maja Stark
281 (−7)
Location map
Erin Hills
Location in the United States
Erin Hills
Location in Wisconsin

The 2025 U.S. Women's Open presented by Ally was the 80th U.S. Women's Open, played May 29 to June 1 at Erin Hills in Erin, Wisconsin.[1]

Venue

The course had previously hosted the 2017 U.S. Open.

Field

The field for the U.S. Women's Open is made up of players who gain entry through qualifying events and those who were exempt from qualifying. The exemption criteria included provision for recent major champions, winners of major amateur events, and leading players in the Women's World Golf Rankings.

The USGA accepted 1,904 entries for the championship.[2]

Exemptions

This list details the exemption criteria for the 2025 U.S. Women's Open and the players exempt. Many players were exempt in multiple categories.[3][a]

1. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open for the last 10 years (2015–2024)

2. From the 2024 U.S. Women's Open, the 10 lowest scorers and anyone tying for 10th place

3. Winner of the 2024 U.S. Senior Women's Open

4. Winner of the 2024 U.S. Women's Amateur

5. Winners of the 2024 U.S. Girls' Junior and U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur and the 2024 U.S. Women's Amateur runner-up (must be an amateur)

6. Winners of the Chevron Championship (2021–2025)

7. Winners of the Women's PGA Championship (2020–2024)

8. Winners of The Evian Championship (2020–2024)

9. Winners of the Women’s British Open (2020–2024)

10. The top 30 point leaders from the 2024 LPGA Race to the CME Globe Final Points.

11. Winners of individual LPGA co-sponsored events, whose victories were considered official, from the conclusion of the 2024 U.S. Women's Open to the initiation of the 2025 U.S. Women's Open (only events that awarded a full point allocation for the Race to the CME Globe)

12. Winner of the 2025 Augusta National Women's Amateur (must be an amateur)

13. Winner of the 2024 Women's Amateur Championship (must be an amateur)

14. Winner of the 2024 Mark H. McCormack Medal (No. 1 in World Amateur Golf Ranking; must be an amateur)

15. Winner of the 2025 NCAA Division I Individual Golf Championship (must be an amateur)

16. From the 2025 Race to CME Globe, the top 10 point leaders as of April 3, 2025

17. From the current Women's World Golf Rankings, the top 75 players and anyone tying for 75th place as of March 24, 2025

18. From the current Women's World Golf Rankings, the top 75 players and anyone tying for 75th place as of May 26, 2025 (if not previously exempt)

19. Winner of the 2024 Olympic gold medal

20. Special exemptions

  • None

Qualifying

Qualifying took place April 13 to May 24, 2024, via 36-hole stroke-play qualifiers at 26 different sites, 23 of them in the United States and one each in Italy, Canada and Japan.[4]

Date Location Venue Field Spots Qualifiers[a]
Apr 14 Atlanta, Georgia Druid Hills Golf Club 78 3 Abbey Daniel, Sophie Hausmann, Napat Lertsadwattana
Apr 17 Richardson, Texas Canyon Creek Country Club 78 2 Hailee Cooper, Isi Gabsa
Apr 21 Sacramento, California Del Paso Country Club 84 3 Leah John, Gabriella Kano (a), Sophia Lee (a)
Apr 21 San Jacinto, California Soboba Springs Golf Course 78 2 Amari Avery, Jude Lee (a)
Apr 22 Chiba Prefecture, Japan Boso Country Club 132 5 Nanoko Hayashi, Hinata Ikeba, Kotona Izumida, Aira Nagasawa (a), Pei-Ying Tsai
Apr 28 Durham, North Carolina Duke University Golf Club 78 2 Carolina López-Chacarra (a), Andie Smith (a)
Apr 28 Belleville, Illinois St. Clair Country Club 78 2 Brooke Biermann (a), Lauren Nguyen (a)
Apr 28 New Smyrna Beach, Florida Sugar Mill Country Club 78 2 Daniela Darquea, Farah O'Keefe (a)
Apr 28 San Francisco, California The Olympic Club 84 3 Sarah Lim (a), Paula Martín Sampedro (a), Emily Odwin (a)
Apr 29 Milan, Italy Golf Club Ambrosiano 60 2 Pia Babnik, Klára Spilková
Apr 30 Springfield, Virginia Springfield Golf & Country Club 78 2 Nicha Kanpai (a), Katie Li (a)
May 1 New Albany, Ohio New Albany Country Club 82 3 Kary Hollenbaugh (a), Anna Huang, Elina Sinz
May 5 Phoenix, Arizona Arizona Country Club 71 2 Hou Yu-Sang, Yani Tseng
May 5 Peabody, Massachusetts Salem Country Club 30 1 Celeste Dao
May 6 Oradell, New Jersey Hackensack Golf Club 53 2 Rayee Feng (a), Lee Jeong-eun
May 6 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Shannopin Country Club 39 1 Caley McGinty
May 7 Montgomery, Texas Bentwater Yacht & Country Club 72 2 Hanna Alberto, Jennifer Elliott
May 7 Ojai, California Soule Park Golf Club 71 2 Katelyn Kong (a), Ilhee Lee
May 9 Honolulu, Hawaii Honolulu Country Club 29 1 Saki Baba
May 9 North Palm Beach, Florida Lost Tree Club 78 2 Hsu Wei-ling, Dana Williams
May 12 Elgin, Illinois Elgin Country Club 78 2 Vanessa Borovilos (a), Kailie Vongsaga
May 12 Coquitlam, British Columbia Canada The Vancouver Golf Club 44 1 Kelly Tan
May 13 Molalla, Oregon Arrowhead Golf Club 44 2 Jeon Ji-won, Kiara Romero (a)
May 13 Naples, Florida Grey Oaks C.C. 78 4 Amanda Doherty, Gurleen Kaur, Auston Kim, Julia López Ramírez
May 13 Prior Lake, Minnesota The Meadows at Mystic Lake 71 3 Minami Katsu, Grace Kim, Jing Yan
May 13 Westminster, Colorado Walnut Creek Golf Preserve 60 2 Celine Borge, Pauline Roussin

Alternates who gained entry

The following players gained a place in the field having finished as the leading alternates in the specified final qualifying events:

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Place Player Score To par
T1 Im Jin-hee 68 −4
Kim A-lim
Julia López Ramirez
Yealimi Noh
Rio Takeda
Angel Yin
T7 Nasa Hataoka 69 −3
Hwang You-min
Chisato Iwai
Yui Kawamoto
Chiara Tamburlini

Second round

Friday, May 30, 2025

Place Player Score To par
1 Mao Saigo 70-66=136 −8
T2 Kim A-lim 68-71=139 −5
Nelly Korda 72-67=139
Yealimi Noh 68-71=139
Sarah Schmelzel 71-68=139
Hinako Shibuno 70-69=139
Maja Stark 70-69=139
T8 Linn Grant 71-69=140 −4
Im Jin-hee 68-72=140
Chiara Tamburlini 69-71=140
Jing Yan 71-69=140

Third round

Saturday, May 31, 2025

Place Player Score To par
1 Maja Stark 70-69-70=209 −7
2 Julia López Ramírez 68-74-68=210 −6
T3 Mao Saigo 70-66-75=211 −5
Hinako Shibuno 70-69-72=211
Rio Takeda 68-73-70=211
6 Nelly Korda 72-67-73=212 −4
T7 Linn Grant 71-69-73=213 −3
Minjee Lee 73-69-71=213
Sarah Schmelzel 71-68-74=213
T10 Gaby López 70-73-71=214 −2
Yealimi Noh 68-71-75=214
Yin Ruoning 71-72-71=214

Final round

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Champion
Low amateur
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1 Maja Stark 70-69-70-72=281 −7 2,400,000
T2 Nelly Korda 72-67-73-71=283 −5 1,052,621
Rio Takeda 68-73-70-72=283
T4 Choi Hye-jin 71-70-75-68=284 −4 486,262
Mao Saigo 70-66-75-73=284
Yin Ruoning 71-72-71-70=284
T7 Hailee Cooper 71-72-72-70=285 −3 358,004
Hinako Shibuno 70-69-72-74=285
T9 Linn Grant 71-69-73-73=286 −2 281,341
Ariya Jutanugarn (c) 72-69-75-70=286
Angel Yin 68-75-73-70=286

Scorecard

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par 5 4 4 4 4 3 5 4 3 4 4 4 3 5 4 3 4 5
Stark −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −8 −7 −7 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −8 −7
Korda −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −5
Takeda −5 −6 −6 −6 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −5 −5
Choi −1 −1 −1 −2 −2 −3 −4 −4 −3 −3 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4
Saigo −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4
Yin −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −3 −4 −4

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie Bogey Double bogey

Source:[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b (a) – denotes amateur

References

  1. ^ Pine, Julia (April 16, 2019). "Erin Hills to Host 2025 Women's Open, 2022 Mid-Amateur". USGA.
  2. ^ DePasquale, Brian (April 3, 2025). "1,904 Entries Accepted for U.S. Women's Open; Saso Among 8 Past Champs in Field". USGA.
  3. ^ "U.S. Women's Open presented by Ally – Players". USGA. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
  4. ^ "80th U.S. Women's Open Presented by Ally Qualifying". USGA. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
  5. ^ "U.S. Women's Open pres. by Ally 2025 - LPGA Golf Leaderboard". ESPN. Retrieved June 1, 2025.