2015 ANA Inspiration

2015 ANA Inspiration

Tournament information
Dates	April 2–5, 2015
Location	Rancho Mirage, California
Course(s)	Mission Hills Country Club Dinah Shore Tournament Course
Tour(s)	LPGA Tour
Format	Stroke play - 72 holes
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,769 yards (6,190 m)
Field	115 players, 73 after cut
Cut	147 (+3)
Prize fund	$2.5 million
Winner's share	$375,000
Champion
Brittany Lincicome
279 (−9), playoff
«2014 2016»

Mission Hills Country Club

Location in the United States

Mission  
Hills CC

Location in California

The 2015 ANA Inspiration was the 44th ANA Inspiration, held April 2–5 on the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. The tournament was in its first year with All Nippon Airways (ANA) as the title sponsor and its 33rd year as a major championship. 2009 champion Brittany Lincicome eagled the 72nd hole to force a playoff, then defeated Stacy Lewis on the third extra hole to win her second major title.^[1] Golf Channel televised the event.

Field

Players who 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), Se Ri Pak (6), Karrie Webb (2,5,6,7,8,9)

2. Winners of all previous ANA Inspirations

Amy Alcott, Pat Hurst, Stacy Lewis (3,5,6,7,8,9), Brittany Lincicome (7,8,9), Inbee Park (3,5,7,8,9), Morgan Pressel (6,8), Lexi Thompson (5,6,8,9), Yani Tseng (3,8), Sun-Young Yoo (8)

3. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open, Women's PGA Championship, and Ricoh Women's British Open in the previous five years

Na Yeon Choi (5,6,7,8,9), Paula Creamer (5,8,9), Shanshan Feng (5,6,7,8,9), Cristie Kerr (5,6,8,9), Mo Martin (5,7,8), So Yeon Ryu (5,7,8,9), Michelle Wie (5,6,7,8,9)

Jiyai Shin (5,6) did not play

4. Winners of The Evian Championship in the previous two years

Kim Hyo-joo (5,7,9,10), Suzann Pettersen (5,7,8,9)

5. Winners of official LPGA Tour tournaments from the 2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship through the week immediately preceding the 2015 ANA Inspiration

Baek Kyu-jung (9), Austin Ernst (8), M. J. Hur (7,8), Jennifer Johnson (8), Christina Kim (6,8), Kim Sei-young (9), Lydia Ko (7,8,9,12), Jessica Korda (7,8,9), Brittany Lang (8), Ilhee Lee (8), Mi Hyang Lee (8), Mirim Lee (8,9), Teresa Lu (9,10), Ai Miyazato, Mika Miyazato, Anna Nordqvist (6,7,8,9), Lee-Anne Pace (8,9), Park Hee-young (8), Beatriz Recari (8), Lizette Salas (8,9), Amy Yang (6,7,8,9)

Azahara Muñoz (6,7,8,9) did not play

6. All players who finished in the top-20 in the previous year's ANA Inspiration

Chella Choi (8,9), Charley Hull (10), Tiffany Joh (8), Lee Jee-young, Caroline Masson (8), Catriona Matthew (8), Gerina Piller (8), Angela Stanford (7,8,9)

7. All players who finished in the top-5 of the previous year's U.S. Women's Open, Wegmans LPGA Championship, Ricoh Women's British Open and The Evian Championship

Julieta Granada (8), Jang Ha-na (9), Ji Eun-hee (8), Meena Lee (8), Stephanie Meadow

8. Top-80 on the previous year's season-ending LPGA Tour official money list

Marina Alex, Amy Anderson, Dori Carter, Carlota Ciganda, Laura Davies, Laura Diaz, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Sandra Gal, Mina Harigae, Caroline Hedwall, Karine Icher, Moriya Jutanugarn, Danielle Kang, Haeji Kang, Kim Kaufman, I.K. Kim, Katherine Kirk, P.K. Kongkraphan, Candie Kung, Amelia Lewis, Pernilla Lindberg, Sydnee Michaels, Belen Mozo, Haru Nomura, Oh Ji-young, Jane Park, Pornanong Phatlum (9), Paula Reto, Dewi Claire Schreefel, Giulia Sergas, Jenny Shin, Sarah Jane Smith, Thidapa Suwannapura, Kris Tamulis, Ayako Uehara, Mariajo Uribe

Line Vedel did not play

9. Top-30 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of a March 10, 2015

Chun In-gee

Ahn Sun-ju (10) 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

Heo Yoon-kyung, Gwladys Nocera

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

Katie Burnett, Paz Echeverria, Yueer Cindy Feng, Jaye Marie Green, Maria Hernandez, Wei-Ling Hsu, Ariya Jutanugarn, Alison Lee, Minjee Lee, Xiyu Lin, Alena Sharp, Kelly Shon, Jennifer Song, Alison Walshe, Sakura Yokomine

12. Previous year's Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year

13. Previous year's U.S. Women's Amateur champion, provided she is still an amateur at the beginning of tournament competition

Kristen Gillman did not play

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

15. Up to six sponsor invitations for top-ranked amateur players

Céline Boutier (a), Nelly Korda (a), Andrea Lee (a), Mika Liu (a), Haley Moore (a), Bethany Wu (a)

Nationalities in the field

North America (43)	South America (3)	Europe (20)	Oceania (5)	Asia (42)	Africa (2)
Canada (1)	Chile (1)	England (3)	Australia (4)	China (3)	South Africa (2)
United States (42)	Colombia (1)	Northern Ireland (1)	New Zealand (1)	Japan (5)
	Paraguay (1)	Scotland (1)		South Korea (25)
		France (3)		Taiwan (4)
		Germany (2)		Thailand (5)
		Italy (1)
		Netherlands (1)
		Norway (1)
		Spain (4)
		Sweden (3)

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Brittany Lincicome	United States	2009	72	68	70	69	279	−9	1
Stacy Lewis	United States	2011	72	69	68	70	279	−9	2
Morgan Pressel	United States	2007	67	72	71	70	280	−8	3
Lexi Thompson	United States	2014	72	69	71	70	282	−6	7
Inbee Park	South Korea	2013	74	69	70	71	284	−4	T11
Karrie Webb	Australia	2000, 2006	74	72	67	74	287	−1	T29
Pat Hurst	United States	1998	71	71	70	78	290	+2	T46
Juli Inkster	United States	1984, 1989	69	75	77	72	293	+5	T64

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Sun-Young Yoo	South Korea	2012	76	72	148	+4
Yani Tseng	Taiwan	2010	74	78	152	+8
Amy Alcott	United States	1983, 1988, 1991	82	82	164	+20

Course layout

Dinah Shore Tournament Course

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	377	517	420	380	182	391	395	169	538	3,369	388	536	389	424	148	387	418	179	531	3,400	6,769
Par	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	36	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	36	72

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Morgan Pressel, the event's 2007 champion, shot a 5-under-par 67 to take a one-stroke lead over Ai Miyazato. Lydia Ko shot a one-under par 71 to tie Annika Sörenstam with 29 consecutive rounds under par in LPGA Tour events. Defending champion Lexi Thompson shot an ever par 72.^[3]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Morgan Pressel	United States	67	−5
2	Ai Miyazato	Japan	68	−4
T3	Juli Inkster	United States	69	−3
	Gwladys Nocera	France
	So Yeon Ryu	South Korea
	Alison Walshe	United States
T7	Na Yeon Choi	South Korea	70	−2
	Austin Ernst	United States
	Charley Hull	England
T10	Chun In-gee	South Korea	71	−1
	Shanshan Feng	China
	Pat Hurst	United States
	Ariya Jutanugarn	Thailand
	Moriya Jutanugarn	Thailand
	Haeji Kang	South Korea
	Kim Hyo-joo	South Korea
	Lydia Ko	New Zealand
	Alison Lee	United States
	Meena Lee	South Korea
	Mirim Lee	South Korea
	Pernilla Lindberg	Sweden
	Catriona Matthew	Scotland
	Anna Nordqvist	Sweden
	Jenny Shin	South Korea
	Amy Yang	South Korea

Second round

Friday, April 3, 2015

LPGA Tour rookie Kim Sei-young took the lead, shooting the day's low score of 65. Lydia Ko shot a round of one-over-par 73 to end her record-tying streak of 29 consecutive rounds.^[4] 73 players made the cut, which fell at three-over-par.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Kim Sei-young	South Korea	72-65=137	−7
2	Morgan Pressel	United States	67-72=139	−5
T3	Brittany Lincicome	United States	72-68=140	−4
	Catriona Matthew	Scotland	71-69=140
	Jenny Shin	South Korea	71-69=140
T6	Shanshan Feng	China	71-70=141	−3
	Moriya Jutanugarn	Thailand	71-70=141
	Mirim Lee	South Korea	71-70=141
	Stacy Lewis	United States	72-69=141
	So Yeon Ryu	South Korea	69-72=141
	Angela Stanford	United States	72-69=141
	Lexi Thompson	United States	72-69=141

Third round

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Kim Sei-young	South Korea	72-65-69=206	−10
2	Stacy Lewis	United States	72-69-68=209	−7
T3	Ariya Jutanugarn	Thailand	71-73-66=210	−6
	Brittany Lincicome	United States	72-68-70=210
	Morgan Pressel	United States	67-72-71=210
T6	Shanshan Feng	China	71-70-70=211	−5
	Moriya Jutanugarn	Thailand	71-70-70=211
	Jenny Shin	South Korea	71-69-71=211
T9	Pat Hurst	United States	71-71-70=212	−4
	Mi Hyang Lee	South Korea	74-68-70=212
	Anna Nordqvist	Sweden	71-72-69=212
	So Yeon Ryu	South Korea	69-72-71=212
	Lexi Thompson	United States	72-69-71=212

Final round

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	Stacy Lewis	United States	72-69-68-70=279	−9	Playoff
	Brittany Lincicome	United States	72-68-70-69=279
3	Morgan Pressel	United States	67-72-71-70=280	−8	167,900
T4	Carlota Ciganda	Spain	74-71-68-68=281	−7	106,653
	Sei Young Kim	South Korea	72-65-69-75=281
	Anna Nordqvist	Sweden	71-72-69-69=281
7	Lexi Thompson	United States	72-69-71-70=282	−6	71,595
T8	Shanshan Feng	China	71-70-70-72=283	−5	56,812
	Mi Hyang Lee	South Korea	74-68-70-71=283
	Suzann Pettersen	Norway	76-68-72-67=283

Source:^[5]
Amateurs: Haley Moore (+6)

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5
Lewis	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−8	−8	−9	−10	−11	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9
Lincicome	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−9
Pressel	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8
Kim	−10	−11	−11	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−10	−9	−10	−8	−7	−8	−7	−7

Playoff

The playoff was held on the par-5 18th hole only and Lincicome won on the third extra hole with a par.^[1]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Brittany Lincicome	United States	5-5-5=15	E	375,000
2	Stacy Lewis	United States	5-5-6=16	+1	231,449

References

1. Helfand, Zach (April 5, 2015). "Fourth time's the charm: Brittany Lincicome wins year's first LPGA major". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
2. "Player Eligibility". ANA Inspiration. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
3. "Ko ties Sorenstam's record of 29 straight rounds under par". USA Today. April 2, 2015.
4. Nicholson, John. "Lydia Ko's under-par streak ends at 29 with 1-over 73.". Associated Press. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
5. "2015 ANA Inspiration leaderboard". LPGA. April 5, 2015. Retrieved April 5, 2015.

External links

• Official website
• Coverage on the LPGA Tour official site

Coordinates: 33°47′53″N 116°25′59″W / 33.798°N 116.433°W