PLAYERS GUIDE — Country Club of Charleston | Charleston, S.C
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74TH U.S. WOMEN’S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYERS GUIDE — Country Club of Charleston | Charleston, S.C. — May 30 -June 2, 2019 conducted by the 2019 U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYERS' GUIDE — 1 2019 U.S. Women’s Open Exemption List Marina Alex (12,14, 17) Ariya Jutanugarn Misuzu Narita (15) DELFINA ACOSTA Brittany Altomare (12, 17) (1,8,11,12,14, 17) Anna Nordqvist (10,12,17) Aditi Ashok (12) Moriya Jutanugarn (12, 17) Su Oh (12) Birth Date: April 28, 1995 Celine Boutier (12,14) Haeji Kang (12) Amy Olson (12,17) Danielle Kang (7,11,12,14, 17) Ashleigh Buhai (12) Ryann O’Toole (12) Age: 24 Ht.: 5’6 Pei-yun Chien (12) Sarah Kemp (15) Cristie Kerr (12, 17) Jane Park (12) Home: Nicanor Otamendi, Argentina Na Yeon Choi (1) Sung Hyun Park (1,7,12,14,17) Chella Choi (12) Megan Khang (11,12) Inbee Park (1,7,8,11,12,17) In Gee Chun (1,10,12,14, 17) Ji Hyun2 Kim (11) College: University of Miami Carlota Ciganda (11,12, 17) Hyo Joo Kim (10,11,12, 17) Annie Park (12,14) Jacqui Concolino (12) Sei Young Kim (12,14, 17) Pornanong Phatlum (12) Turned Professional: 2018 Paula Creamer (1) Katherine Kirk (12) Gerina Piller (19) Lydia Ko (9,10,12, 17) Laura Davies (2) So Yeon Ryu (1,9,12,14,17) Jin Young Ko (9,12,14, 17) Player Notes: [ELIGIBILITY: She shot 145 at The Wanderers Lindy Duncan (12) Lizette Salas (12,17) Nelly Korda (11,12,14, 17) Austin Ernst (12, 17) Supamas Sangchan (16) Club in Wellington, Fla., to earn one of two spots.] Jessica Korda (12, 17) Jenny Shin (12,17) Jodi Ewart Shadoff (12, 17) Brittany Lang (1) Acosta started playing golf at age 8 in her home village in Argen- Shanshan Feng (12, 17) Saranporn Langkulgasettrin Jennifer Song (12) Sandra Gal (12) (16) Mariah Stackhouse (12) tina, where golf was hardly known then. She became one of the Hannah Green (12) Bronte Law (12) Angela Stanford (10,11,12,17) top junior golfers in Argentina and earned a victory at the 2009 Jaye Marie Green (12) Mirim Lee (12) Thidapa Suwannapura (12,14) Jenny Haglund (15) Jeong Eun Lee (12, 17) Ai Suzuki (15,17) Doral-Publix Junior Golf Classic. She captured back-to-back Georgia Hall (8,12,15, 17) Mi Hyang Lee (12, 17) Emma Talley (12) Copa de Oro titles, including a 14-stroke victory in 2013, and was Leonie Harm (a) (4) Minjee Lee (12,14, 17) Patty Tavatanakit (a) (11) Nasa Hataoka (11,12,14, 17) a member of the Argentinian team that won the 2012 Copa Los Jeongeun Lee6 (15) Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras Caroline Hedwall (15) Stacy Lewis (19) (12) Andres. Acosta posted two top-10 finishes (2011, 2013) at the Brooke Henderson (7,12,14, Pernilla Lindberg (9,12,17) Lexi Thompson (11,12,14,17) 17) Yan Liu (16) Junior Orange Bowl International Golf Championship. Ayako Uehara (12) Mamiko Higa (15, 17) Yu Liu (12,17) In 2012, she won the South American Amateur Championship, Wei-Ling Hsu (11,12) Gaby Lopez (12,14) Anne Van Dam (15) Charley Hull (11,12, 17) Mo Martin (8,12) Karrie Webb (19) shooting 5-under, while also claiming four national junior titles. Jiwon Jeon (a) (3) Caroline Masson (12, 17) Amy Yang (12, 14,17) Eun-Hee Ji (1,12,14 17) Ally McDonald (12) Angel Yin (12,17) In April 2013, she signed with the University of Miami. Entering Shannon Johnson (3) Azahara Munoz (12, 17) Sakura Yokomine (12) her freshman year at Miami, she was the No. 1 ranked amateur women’s golfer in Argentina and ranked No. 89 in the World Key to Player Exemptions Amateur Golf Rankings. from Sectional Qualifying She collected her first career collegiate victory as a sophomore at the Web.com Intercollegiate and helped the Hurricanes reach the Players in the following categories will be eligible for exemption in national tournament for the second straight year when she finished the 2019 Championship only. The USGA reserves the right to revise any of the exemption categories. Exemption under categories T27 at the 2015 NCAA Women’s West Regional. As a senior, she reserved for amateurs will be granted only to players who are posted her best career finish, 3rd place, at the ACC Champion- currently amateurs, unless otherwise indicated. An amateur who is ship. exempt into the Championship proper through a category reserved for amateurs becomes ineligible if she becomes a professional before Acosta finished her college career with one title and eight top-10 beginning play or during the play of the Championship, unless finishes. otherwise indicated. Exempt players who wish to participate in the She turned professional in 2018 and joined the Symetra Tour in Championship must file an entry, except those players for whom blank entries are filed as noted below. 2019. Thus far, she has made two cuts in six events on tour. She 1 Winners of the U.S. Women’s Open Championship for the last 10 is playing in her first USGA championship. years (2009-2018) 2 Winners of the 2018 and 2019 U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championship Playing in her first U.S. Women’s Open 3 Winners of the 2018 U.S. Women’s Amateur, U.S. Girls’ Junior & U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championships and the 2018 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship runner-up (must be an amateur) 4 Winner of the 2018 Ladies British Open Amateur Championship (must be an amateur) 5 Winner of the 2018 Mark H. McCormack Medal (Women’s World 14 Winners of LPGA co-sponsored events, whose victories are Amateur Golf Ranking) (must be an amateur) considered official, from the conclusion of the 2018 U.S. Women’s Open Championship to the initiation of the 2019 6 Winner of the 2019 Augusta National Women’s Amateur U.S. Women’s Open Championship Championship (must be an amateur) 15 Top five LET members from the final 2018 LET Order of Merit and 7 Winners of the 2015-2018 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship the top five money leaders from the final 2018 Japan LPGA 8 Winners of the AIG Women’s British Open Championship the last Tour and Korea LPGA Tour five years (2014-2018) 16 Top three money leaders from the 2018 China LPGA Tour 9 Winners of the ANA Inspiration Championship the last five years 17 From the current Rolex Rankings, the top 50 point leaders and (2015-2019) anyone tying for 50th place as of April 17, 2019. Players must 10 Winners of the Evian Championship the last five years (2014-2018) select a qualifying site at the time of entry. (Must have filed an entry by April 17, 2019.) 11 From the 2018 U.S. Women’s Open Championship, the 10 lowest 18 From the current Rolex Rankings, the top 50 point leaders and scorers and anyone tying for 10th place anyone tying for 50th place as of May 27, 2019 (if not 12 From the 2018 final official LPGA money list, the top 75 money previously exempt). Players must select a qualifying site at the leaders time of entry 13 From the 2019 official LPGA money list, the top 10 money leaders 19 Special exemptions as selected by the USGA. Must have filed an through the close of entries on April 17, 2019. Players must entry by April 17, 2019. Deadline for submission of request: select a qualifying site at the time of entry. (Must have filed an April 17, 2019. Players must select a qualifying site at the time entry by April 17, 2019) of entry 2019 U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYERS' GUIDE — 2 TY AKABANE (a) Ty Akabane’s U.S. Women’s Open Record Place After Rounds Birth Date: November 06, 2000 Year 1 2 3 Finish Score To Par 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Money Birthplace: Walnut Creek, Calif. 2017 142 145 0 CUT 159 +15 79 80 0 0 $0.00 Akabane’s U.S. Women’s Open Stats: Age: 18 Ht.: 5’5 ¢ U.S. Women’s Open’s Played:............1 ¢ Top 25 Finishes:................................0 ¢ Rounds Played:.................................2 ¢ Rounds In 60s:..................................0 Home: Danville, Calif. ¢ Times Finished 72 Holes: ...................0 ¢ Rounds Under Par: ............................0 ¢ Scoring Average: ......................... 79.5 ¢ Rounds At Par:..................................0 Player Notes: [ELIGIBILITY: She shot 142 at Contra Costa ¢ Relation To Par:...............................15 ¢ Rounds Over Par: ..............................2 Country Club in Pleasant Hill, Calif., to earn one of two spots.] ¢ Top 3 Finishes:..................................0 ¢ Lowest U.S. Women’s Open Score:.. 79 ¢ Top 5 Finishes:..................................0 ¢ Highest U.S. Women’s Open Score: . 80 Ty Akabane started playing golf at age six with a set of Snoopy golf ¢ Top 10 Finishes:................................0 clubs. She would hit golf balls up the giant hill across from her house, marking her progress by how far the ball went up the hill. She is left handed, but plays golf right handed. She first started Ty Akabane’s U.S. Women’s Open Statistics playing in golf tournaments in the local Junior Golf Association of Fairways Greens Putts Northern California (JGANC) and currently plays in Northern Year Place Hit Rank Distance Rank Hit Rank per Rd. % Rank California Golf Association (NCGA), American Junior Golf Asso- 2017 CUT 12 209.8 20 63 31.50 ciation (AJGA), and USGA championships. Her victories include the 2015 San Joaquin Junior Amateur, the 2014 Sacrament City Women’s Championship with a score of 2- under, the 2014 Junior North California Match Play, the 2013 Jun- ior Tour of Northern California, Livermore, and the 2012 Castlewood Junior.