1999 U.S. Women's Open

The 1999 U.S. Women's Open was the 54th U.S. Women's Open, held June 3–6 at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Mississippi, northwest of Columbus.

1999 U.S. Women's Open

Tournament information
Dates	June 3–6, 1999
Location	West Point, Mississippi
Course(s)	Old Waverly Golf Club
Organized by	USGA
Tour(s)	LPGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,433 yards (5,882 m)
Field	150 players, 63 after cut
Cut	144 (E)
Prize fund	$1.75 million
Winner's share	$315,000
Champion
Juli Inkster
272 (−16)
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Old Waverly Golf Club

Location in the United States

Old Waverly Golf Club

Location in Mississippi

In her twentieth attempt,^[1] Juli Inkster won the first of her two U.S. Women's Open titles, five strokes ahead of runner-up Sherri Turner.^[2][3] Inkster, 38, broke the under-par scoring record with a 272 (−16) and became the oldest champion since 1955.^[4] It was the fourth of her seven major championships; she also won the next major, the LPGA Championship, three weeks later.

The win was the first by an American at the championship in five years, and Inkster became the first since JoAnne Carner to win the U.S. Women's Amateur and the U.S. Women's Open.^[4] Carner won her amateur title in 1968 and Open titles in 1971 and 1976. Inkster won three consecutive amateur titles in 1980, 1981, and 1982; she won her second Open in 2002.

Grace Park set the amateur scoring record at 283 (−5) and turned professional shortly after.

Annika Sörenstam shot 146 (+2) and missed the cut by two strokes,^[5] the second and last time she failed to play the weekend in her fifteen appearances. She previously missed the cut in 1997, as the two-time defending champion (1995, 1996).^[6] Sörenstam won her third Open in 2006, the last of her ten major titles.

Course layout

Main article: Old Waverly Golf Club

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	339	475	163	390	403	348	177	413	512	3,220	520	408	151	384	357	447	388	183	375	3,213	6,433
Par	4	5	3	4	4	4	3	4	5	36	5	4	3	4	4	5	4	3	4	36	72

Source:^[7]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, June 3, 1999
Friday, June 4, 1999

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Kelli Kuehne	64	−8
2	Juli Inkster	65	−7
3	Moira Dunn	67	−5
T4	Se Ri Pak	68	−4
	Dottie Pepper
	Sherri Steinhauer
T7	Donna Andrews	69	−3
	A. J. Eathorne
	Akiko Fukushima
	Catriona Matthew
	Catrin Nilsmark
	Sherri Turner

Source:^[8]

Second round

Friday, June 4, 1999

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Juli Inkster	65-69=134	−10
	Lorie Kane	70-64=134
3	Kelli Kuehne	64-71=135	−9
4	Becky Iverson	72-64=136	−8
T5	Catriona Matthew	69-68=137	−7
	Grace Park (a)	70-67=137
	Dottie Pepper	68-69=137
	Sherri Steinhauer	68-69=137
T9	Moira Dunn	67-71=138	−6
	Lisa Riggens	71-67=138
	Se Ri Pak	68-70=138
	Sherri Turner	69-69=138

Source:^[9]

Third round

Saturday, June 5, 1999

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Juli Inkster	65-69-67=201	−15
T2	Lorie Kane	70-64-71=205	−11
	Kelli Kuehne	64-71-70=205
4	Sherri Turner	69-69-68=206	−10
5	Karrie Webb	70-70-68=208	−8
T6	Becky Iverson	72-64-73=209	−7
	Carin Koch	72-69-68=209
	Meg Mallon	70-70-69=209
	Dottie Pepper	68-69-72=209
T10	Helen Alfredsson	72-68-70=210	−6
	Akiko Fukushima	69-70-71=209
	Catrin Nilsmark	69-71-70=209
	Grace Park (a)	70-67-73=209
	Sherri Steinhauer	68-69-73=209

Source:^[10]

Final round

Sunday, June 6, 1999

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Juli Inkster	65-69-67-71=272	−16	315,000
2	Sherri Turner	69-69-68-71=277	−11	185,000
3	Kelli Kuehne	64-71-70-74=279	−9	118,227
4	Lorie Kane	70-64-71-75=280	−8	82,399
T5	Carin Koch	72-69-68-72=281	−7	62,938
	Meg Mallon	70-70-69-72=281
7	Karrie Webb	70-70-68-74=282	−6	53,132
T8	Catriona Matthew	69-68-74-72=283	−5	45,244
	Helen Dobson	71-70-73-69=283
	Maria Hjorth	73-69-70-71=283
	Grace Park (a)	70-67-73-73=283		0

Source:^[11]