2019 ANA Inspiration

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.

2019 ANA Inspiration
Tournament information
DatesApril 4–7, 2019
LocationRancho Mirage, California
33.798°N 116.433°W / 33.798; -116.433
Course(s)Mission Hills Country Club
Dinah Shore
Tournament Course
Tour(s)LPGA Tour
FormatStroke play - 72 holes
Statistics
Par72
Length6,763 yards (6,184 m)
Field112 players, 77 after cut
Cut149 (+5)
Prize fund$3.0 million
Winner's share450,000
Champion
Ko Jin-young
278 (−10)
Location Map
Rancho Mirage
Location in the United States
Rancho Mirage
Location in California

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 Ricoh 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, Ricoh 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]

Nationalities in the field
North America (42)South America (1)Europe (20)Oceania (8)Asia (40)Africa (1)
 Canada (2) Colombia (1) England (5) Australia (7) China (5) South Africa (1)
 Mexico (1) Belgium (1) New Zealand (1) India (1)
 Puerto Rico (1) Denmark (1) Japan (5)
 United States (38) France (1) South Korea (20)
 Germany (2) Taiwan (3)
 Netherlands (1) Thailand (6)
 Spain (3)
 Sweden (5)
  Switzerland (1)

Past champions in the field

Made the cut
Player Country Year(s) won R1 R2 R3 R4 Total To par Finish
Lexi Thompson United States201469727467282−63
Stacy Lewis United States201171737074288ET26
Ryu So-yeon South Korea201775747368290+2T39
Lydia Ko New Zealand201670757472291+3T44
Morgan Pressel United States200776707372291+3T44
Brittany Lincicome United States2009, 201575697177292+4T52
Inbee Park South Korea201373727674295+7T68

Missed the cut
PlayerCountryYear(s) wonR1R2TotalTo par
Pernilla Lindberg Sweden20187378151+7
Juli Inkster United States1984, 19897775152+8
Karrie Webb Australia2000, 20067879157+13
Yani Tseng Taiwan20107880158+14
Source:[4]

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]

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Ally McDonald United States68−4
T2Kim Hyo-joo South Korea69−3
Ko Jin-young South Korea
Linnea Ström Sweden
Lexi Thompson United States
T6Cristie Kerr United States70−2
Lydia Ko New Zealand
Jessica Korda United States
Lee Mi-hyang South Korea
Lin Xiyu China
Jane Park United States
Lizette Salas United States
Lauren Stephenson United States
Yan Jing China
Amy Yang South Korea
Source:[4]

Second round

Friday, April 5, 2019

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1In-Kyung Kim South Korea71-65=136−8
2Katherine Kirk Australia71-68=139−5
T3Ko Jin-young South Korea69-71=140−4
Ally McDonald United States68-72=140
T5Charley Hull England72-69=141−3
Danielle Kang United States72-69=141
Park Sung-hyun South Korea71-70=141
Lexi Thompson United States69-72=141
Jing Yan China70-71=141
T10Lee Jeong-eun South Korea71-71=142−2
Amy Yang South Korea70-72=142
Source:[4]

Third round

Saturday, April 6, 2019

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Ko Jin-young South Korea69-71-68=208−8
2In-Kyung Kim South Korea71-65-73=209−7
T3Danielle Kang United States72-69-70=211−5
Lee Mi-hyang South Korea70-73-68=211
T5Katherine Kirk Australia71-68-74=213−3
Lee Jeong-eun South Korea71-71-71=213
Alena Sharp Canada76-70-67=213
T8Brooke Henderson Canada71-72-71=214−2
Jessica Korda United States70-73-71=214
Stacy Lewis United States71-73-70=214
Lin Xiyu China70-74-70=214
Ally McDonald United States68-72-74=214
Park Sung-hyun South Korea71-70-73=214
Angel Yin United States71-74-69=214
Source:[4]

Final round

Sunday, April 7, 2019

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parPrize money (US$)
1Ko Jin-young South Korea69-71-68-70=278−10450,000
2Lee Mi-hyang South Korea70-73-68-70=281−7275,721
3Lexi Thompson United States69-72-74-67=282−6200,016
T4Carlota Ciganda Spain72-72-71-68=283−5139,634
In-Kyung Kim South Korea71-65-73-74=283
T6Kristen Gillman United States74-71-73-66=284−474,472
Danielle Kang United States72-69-70-73=284
Kim Hyo-joo South Korea69-76-70-69=284
Jessica Korda United States70-73-71-70=284
Lee Jeong-eun South Korea71-71-71-71=284
Ally McDonald United States68-72-74-70=284

Scorecard

Final round

Hole123456789101112131415161718
Par454434435454434435
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
  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. "ANA Inspiration (Leaderboard)". LPGA. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
  5. "Late birdie gives McDonald ANA Inspiration lead". ESPN. Associated Press. April 4, 2019.
Preceded by
2018 Evian Championship		 Major Championships Succeeded by
2019 U.S. Women's Open
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