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Player Bio: Ariya Jutanugarn2020 U.S. Women's Open

 

Age: 25
Country: Thailand
College: None
Worldwide professional victories: 11 (10 on LPGA Tour)
Exempt status: 2018 U.S. Women’s Open champion; 2016 AIG Women’s British Open champion; top 30 points leader in LPGA Tour’s 2019 Race to the CME Globe; top 75 in Rolex Rankings as of March 16

Jutanugarn survived a four-hole playoff with Hyo Joo Kim to win the 2018 U.S. Women’s Open at Shoal Creek. It was the second major championship for the long-hitting Jutanugarn following the 2016 AIG Women’s British Open. Her most recent triumph is the 2018 Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish Open. Jutanugarn enjoyed a fruitful junior/amateur career, winning the 2011 U.S. Girls’ Junior at Olympia Fields (Ill.) Country Club and reaching the semifinals of that championship a year later. She also was a semifinalist in the 2012 U.S. Women’s Amateur. Older sister Moriya is also a member of the LPGA Tour.

U.S. Women's Open Playing Record

YEAR

SITE

SCORES

TO PAR

FINISH

2020 Champions Golf Club 70-70-74-73—287 +3 T-9

2019

Country Club of Charleston

72-73-69-72—286

+2

T-26

2018

Shoal Creek

67-70-67-73—277

-11

Win

2017

Trump National Golf Club (Old Course)

79-72

+7

MC

2016

CordeValle

70-75-69-74—288

E

T-17

2015

Lancaster Country Club

79-71

+10

MC

2011

The Broadmoor (East Course)

75-79

+12

MC

2010

Oakmont Country Club

81-78

+17

MC