# 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.
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.

## 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.
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 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, 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)

## 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.
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 | Ally McDonald | 68 | −4 |
| T2 | Kim Hyo-joo | 69 | −3 |
| T2 | Ko Jin-young | 69 | −3 |
| T2 | Linnea Ström | 69 | −3 |
| T2 | Lexi Thompson | 69 | −3 |
| T6 | Cristie Kerr | 70 | −2 |
| T6 | Lydia Ko | 70 | −2 |
| T6 | Jessica Korda | 70 | −2 |
| T6 | Lee Mi-hyang | 70 | −2 |
| T6 | Lin Xiyu | 70 | −2 |
| T6 | Jane Park | 70 | −2 |
| T6 | Lizette Salas | 70 | −2 |
| T6 | Lauren Stephenson | 70 | −2 |
| T6 | Yan Jing | 70 | −2 |
| T6 | Amy Yang | 70 | −2 |
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### Second round

Friday, April 5, 2019
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 | In-Kyung Kim | 71-65=136 | −8 |
| 2 | Katherine Kirk | 71-68=139 | −5 |
| T3 | Ko Jin-young | 69-71=140 | −4 |
| T3 | Ally McDonald | 68-72=140 | −4 |
| T5 | Charley Hull | 72-69=141 | −3 |
| T5 | Danielle Kang | 72-69=141 | −3 |
| T5 | Park Sung-hyun | 71-70=141 | −3 |
| T5 | Lexi Thompson | 69-72=141 | −3 |
| T5 | Jing Yan | 70-71=141 | −3 |
| T10 | Lee Jeong-eun | 71-71=142 | −2 |
| T10 | Amy Yang | 70-72=142 | −2 |
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### Third round

Saturday, April 6, 2019
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 | Ko Jin-young | 69-71-68=208 | −8 |
| 2 | In-Kyung Kim | 71-65-73=209 | −7 |
| T3 | Danielle Kang | 72-69-70=211 | −5 |
| T3 | Lee Mi-hyang | 70-73-68=211 | −5 |
| T5 | Katherine Kirk | 71-68-74=213 | −3 |
| T5 | Lee Jeong-eun | 71-71-71=213 | −3 |
| T5 | Alena Sharp | 76-70-67=213 | −3 |
| T8 | Brooke Henderson | 71-72-71=214 | −2 |
| T8 | Jessica Korda | 70-73-71=214 | −2 |
| T8 | Stacy Lewis | 71-73-70=214 | −2 |
| T8 | Lin Xiyu | 70-74-70=214 | −2 |
| T8 | Ally McDonald | 68-72-74=214 | −2 |
| T8 | Park Sung-hyun | 71-70-73=214 | −2 |
| T8 | Angel Yin | 71-74-69=214 | −2 |
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### Final round

Sunday, April 7, 2019
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Prize money (US$) |
| 1 | Ko Jin-young | 69-71-68-70=278 | −10 | 450,000 |
| 2 | Lee Mi-hyang | 70-73-68-70=281 | −7 | 275,721 |
| 3 | Lexi Thompson | 69-72-74-67=282 | −6 | 200,016 |
| T4 | Carlota Ciganda | 72-72-71-68=283 | −5 | 139,634 |
| T4 | In-Kyung Kim | 71-65-73-74=283 | −5 | 139,634 |
| T6 | Kristen Gillman | 74-71-73-66=284 | −4 | 74,472 |
| T6 | Danielle Kang | 72-69-70-73=284 | −4 | 74,472 |
| T6 | Kim Hyo-joo | 69-76-70-69=284 | −4 | 74,472 |
| T6 | Jessica Korda | 70-73-71-70=284 | −4 | 74,472 |
| T6 | Lee Jeong-eun | 71-71-71-71=284 | −4 | 74,472 |
| T6 | Ally McDonald | 68-72-74-70=284 | −4 | 74,472 |

#### 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 |
| 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
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