2025 Women's PGA Championship

2025 KPMG Women's PGA Championship
Tournament information
DatesJune 19–22, 2025
LocationFrisco, Texas
33°12′47″N 96°51′11″W / 33.213°N 96.853°W / 33.213; -96.853
Course(s)PGA Frisco
Fields Ranch East
Organized byPGA of America
Tour(s)LPGA Tour
Statistics
Par72
Length6,604 yards (6,039 m)
Field156 players, 78 after cut
Cut151 (+7)
Prize fund$12,000,000[1]
Winner's share$1,800,000[1]
Champion
Minjee Lee
284 (−4)
Location map
PGA Frisco
Location in the United States
PGA Frisco
Location in Texas

The 2025 KPMG Women's PGA Championship was the 71st Women's PGA Championship. It was played June 19–22 on the Fields Ranch East course at PGA Frisco in Frisco, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas. It was the first time the Fields Ranch East course hosted a LPGA major;[2] it hosted the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, a senior men's major, in 2023.[3]

The PGA Championship was the third of five major championships on the LPGA Tour during the 2025 season.

Minjee Lee won by three strokes over Auston Kim and Chanettee Wannasaen. It was Lee's third major championship win.[4]

Field

The field included 156 players[5] who met one or more of the selection criteria and commit to participate by a designated deadline.[6]

1. Sponsor invitations[a][7]

2. Past winners of the Women's PGA Championship

3. Professionals who have won an LPGA major championship in the previous five years and during the current year

4. Professionals who have won an official LPGA tournament in the previous two calendar years and during the current year

5. Winners of the 2024 Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational

6. Order of Merit winners from the Ladies European Tour, LPGA of Japan Tour, and LPGA of Korea Tour

7. Professionals who finished top-10 and ties at the previous year's Women's PGA Championship

8. Professionals ranked No. 1–60 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of May 19, 2025

9. The top eight finishers at the 2024 LPGA Professionals National Championship

  • Heather Angell
  • Sandra Changkija
  • Alison Curdt
  • Nicole Felce
  • Ashley Grier
  • Allie Knight
  • Natalie Vivaldi
  • Allie White

10. The top finisher (not otherwise qualified via the 2024 LPGA Professionals National Championship) at the 2025 PGA Women's Stroke Play Championship

  • Katelyn Sepmoree

11. Any player who did not compete in the 2024 KPMG Women's PGA Championship due to maternity[b]

  • Joanna Coe

12. LPGA members who have committed to the event, ranked in the order of their position on the 2025 CME Globe Points list

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Atthaya Thitikul shot a 4-under-par 68 to lead by one stroke over Minjee Lee. The weather was hot and windy and only 15 players scored under par for the round.[8]

Place Player Score To par
1 Atthaya Thitikul 68 −4
2 Minjee Lee 69 −3
T3 Lee So-mi 70 −2
Yealimi Noh
Ryu Hae-ran
Rio Takeda
T7 Bang Shin-sil 71 −1
Pei-Yun Chien
Chun In-gee
Hwang You-min
Chisato Iwai
Auston Kim
Yuna Nishimura
Kumkang Park
Angel Yin

Second round

Friday, June 20, 2025

Atthaya Thitikul extended her lead to three strokes with a 2-uder-par round of 70. In second place were Minjee Lee and Rio Takeda. The cut came at 151 (+7), with 78 players advancing to the weekend.[9] Defending champion Amy Yang missed the cut with a +9.

Place Player Score To par
1 Atthaya Thitikul 68-70=138 −6
T2 Minjee Lee 69-72=141 −3
Rio Takeda 70-71=141
4 Lexi Thompson 72-70=142 −2
T5 Chisato Iwai 71-72=143 −1
Auston Kim 71-72=143
Lee So-mi 70-73=143
T8 Bang Shin-sil 71-73=144 E
Yealimi Noh 70-74=144
Miyū Yamashita 73-71=144

Third round

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Minjee Lee shot a 3-under-par round of 69 to take a four-stroke lead over second-round leader Atthaya Thitikul who shot a 76. Lee's round was the first bogey-free round of the tournament.[10]

Place Player Score To par
1 Minjee Lee 69-72-69=210 −6
2 Atthaya Thitikul 68-70-76=214 −2
T3 Choi Hye-jin 75-70-72=217 +1
Lexi Thompson 72-70-75=217
Miyū Yamashita 73-71-73=217
T6 Chisato Iwai 71-72-75=218 +2
Nelly Korda 72-74-72=218
Leona Maguire 72-74-72=218
Yealimi Noh 70-74-74=218
T10 Auston Kim 71-72-76=219 +3
Grace Kim 73-78-68=219
Lee So-mi 70-73-76=219
Chanettee Wannasaen 75-72-72=219
Yin Ruoning 76-71-72=219

Final round

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Minjee Lee shot a 2-over-par round of 74 but still won by three strokes over Auston Kim and Chanettee Wannasaen. It was Lee's third major championship win.[4]

Champion
(c) = past champion
Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1 Minjee Lee 69-72-69-74=284 −4 1,800,000
T2 Auston Kim 71-72-76-68=287 −1 914,169
Chanettee Wannasaen 75-72-72-68=287
T4 Chisato Iwai 71-72-75-71=289 +1 536,635
Atthaya Thitikul 68-70-76-75=289
T6 Miyū Yamashita 73-71-73-73=290 +2 359,691
Angel Yin 71-75-75-69=290
T8 Choi Hye-jin 75-70-72-74=291 +3 272,672
Lee So-mi 70-73-76-72=291
T10 Hsu Wei-ling 75-75-72-70=292 +4 226,255
Pauline Roussin 75-74-73-70=292

Notes

  1. ^ Maximum of two
  2. ^ As approved by the Women’s PGA Championship in conjunction with the player’s home tour, provided she was otherwise qualified to compete in the 2024 Women’s PGA Championship.

References

  1. ^ a b "Women's PGA Championship raises tournament purse to $12M". ESPN. Field Level Media. June 18, 2025.
  2. ^ Cunningham, Kevin (June 18, 2025). "2025 KPMG Women's PGA Championship: TV schedule, streaming, tee times". Golf. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  3. ^ "Steve Stricker wins Senior PGA in playoff over Padraig Harrington". ESPN. Associated Press. May 28, 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Minjee Lee wins Women's PGA Championship for third major title". ESPN. Associated Press. June 22, 2025.
  5. ^ Carter, Iain (June 18, 2025). "Women's PGA Championship: Mimi Rhodes joins Charley Hull and Georgia Hall at Texas major". BBC Sport. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  6. ^ "2025 KPMG Women's PGA Championship – Entries". LPGA. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  7. ^ "Field Breakdown: 2025 KPMG Women's PGA Championship". LPGA. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  8. ^ "Thitikul recovers from early double bogey, leads Women's PGA". ESPN. Associated Press. June 19, 2025.
  9. ^ "Jeeno Thitikul's lead grows to 3 shots at KPMG Women's PGA". ESPN. June 20, 2025.
  10. ^ "Minjee Lee takes 4-shot lead into final round of Women's PGA". ESPN. Associated Press. June 21, 2025.
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