2019 ANA Inspiration

Golf tournament

2019 ANA InspirationTournament information

Dates| April 4–7, 2019
Location| Rancho Mirage, California
33°47′53″N 116°25′59″W﻿ / ﻿33.798°N 116.433°W﻿ / 33.798; -116.433
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)
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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

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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

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### First round

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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

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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

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### Second round

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Friday, April 5, 2019

Place | Player | Score | To par

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1 |  In-Kyung Kim | 71-65=136 | −8
2 |  Katherine Kirk | 71-68=139 | −5
T3 |  Ko Jin-young | 69-71=140 | −4
Ally McDonald | 68-72=140
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
Amy Yang | 70-72=142

Source:[4]

### Third round

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Saturday, April 6, 2019

Place | Player | Score | To par

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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
Lee Mi-hyang | 70-73-68=211
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

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Sunday, April 7, 2019

Place | Player | Score | To par | Prize money (US$)

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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
In-Kyung Kim | 71-65-73-74=283
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

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Final round

Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18

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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

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Source:[4]

## References

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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.
4. ^ a b c d e "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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