# 2002 U.S. Women's Open

The 2002 U.S. Women's Open was the 57th U.S. Women's Open, held July 4–7 in Kansas at Prairie Dunes Country Club, northeast of Hutchinson, about forty miles (65 km) northwest of Wichita.
Juli Inkster won her second U.S. Women's Open, two strokes ahead of runner-up Annika Sörenstam, the 54-hole leader. Inkster, 42, shot a final round 66 (−4) to gain her seventh and final major title. She joined Babe Zaharias as the only women to win two majors after age 40.
This was the first purse of $3 million at the U.S. Women's Open, it had tripled in the seven years since 1995, the first seven-figure purse.

## Course layout

| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
| Yards | 401 | 142 | 321 | 157 | 405 | 372 | 512 | 412 | 399 | 3,121 | 160 | 437 | 363 | 387 | 342 | 175 | 400 | 500 | 382 | 3,146 | 6,267 |
| Par | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 35 | 70 |
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## Round summaries
### First round

Thursday, July 4, 2002
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| T1 | Laura Diaz | 67 | −3 |
| T1 | Juli Inkster | 67 | −3 |
| T1 | Shani Waugh | 67 | −3 |
| 4 | Kim Saiki | 68 | −2 |
| T5 | Lorie Kane | 69 | −1 |
| T5 | Catriona Matthew | 69 | −1 |
| T7 | Audra Burks | 70 | E |
| T7 | Brandie Burton | 70 | E |
| T7 | Jackie Gallagher-Smith | 70 | E |
| T7 | Pamela Kerrigan | 70 | E |
| T7 | Kelli Kuehne | 70 | E |
| T7 | Mhairi McKay | 70 | E |
| T7 | Cindy Schreyer | 70 | E |
| T7 | Annika Sörenstam | 70 | E |
| T7 | Sherri Steinhauer | 70 | E |
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### Second round

Friday, July 5, 2002
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| T1 | Laura Diaz | 67-72=139 | −1 |
| T1 | Juli Inkster | 67-72=139 | −1 |
| T1 | Annika Sörenstam | 70-69=139 | −1 |
| T4 | Michele Redman | 71-69=140 | E |
| T4 | Shani Waugh | 67-73=140 | E |
| 6 | Jill McGill | 71-70=141 | +1 |
| T7 | Jenna Daniels | 72-70=142 | +2 |
| T7 | Michelle Ellis | 71-71=142 | +2 |
| T9 | Stephanie Keever | 72-71=143 | +3 |
| T9 | Janice Moodie | 71-72=143 | +3 |
| T9 | Charlotta Sörenstam | 73-70=143 | +3 |
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### Third round

Saturday, July 6, 2002
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 | Annika Sörenstam | 70-69-69=208 | −2 |
| T2 | Juli Inkster | 67-72-71=210 | E |
| T2 | Jill McGill | 71-70-69=210 | E |
| 4 | Shani Waugh | 67-73-71=211 | +1 |
| 5 | Michele Redman | 71-69-73=213 | +3 |
| 6 | Janice Moodie | 71-72-71=214 | +4 |
| T7 | Lynnette Brooky | 73-73-69=215 | +5 |
| T7 | Lorie Kane | 69-77-69=215 | +5 |
| T7 | Carin Koch | 73-72-70=215 | +5 |
| T10 | Laura Davies | 75-73-68=216 | +6 |
| T10 | Laura Diaz | 67-72-77=216 | +6 |
| T10 | Susan Ginter-Brooker | 74-72-70=216 | +6 |
| T10 | Stephanie Keever | 72-71-73=216 | +6 |
| T10 | Mi-Hyun Kim | 74-72-70=216 | +6 |
| T10 | Mhairi McKay | 70-75-71=216 | +6 |
| T10 | Liselotte Neumann | 72-74-70=216 | +6 |
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### Final round

Sunday, July 7, 2002
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
| 1 | Juli Inkster | 67-72-71-66=276 | −4 | 535,000 |
| 2 | Annika Sörenstam | 70-69-69-70=278 | −2 | 315,000 |
| 3 | Shani Waugh | 67-73-71-72=283 | +3 | 202,568 |
| 4 | Raquel Carriedo | 75-71-72-66=284 | +4 | 141,219 |
| 5 | Se Ri Pak | 74-75-68-68=285 | +5 | 114,370 |
| 6 | Mhairi McKay | 70-75-71-70=286 | +6 | 101,421 |
| T7 | Beth Daniel | 71-76-71-69=287 | +7 | 78,015 |
| T7 | Janice Moodie | 71-72-71-73=287 | +7 | 78,015 |
| T7 | Jennifer Rosales | 73-72-74-68=287 | +7 | 78,015 |
| T7 | Kelli Kuehne | 70-76-72-69=287 | +7 | 78,015 |
| T7 | Laura Diaz | 67-72-77-71=287 | +7 | 78,015 |
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#### Scorecard

| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| Par | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Inkster | E | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −2 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −5 | −4 | −4 |
| Sörenstam | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −3 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −3 | −2 | −1 | −2 | −2 |
| Waugh | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | E | +1 | +3 | +3 | +2 | +3 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +3 | +3 | +3 |
| Carriedo | +7 | +6 | +5 | +5 | +4 | +4 | +3 | +3 | +3 | +3 | +3 | +3 | +4 | +4 | +4 | +4 | +4 | +4 |
| Pak | +6 | +6 | +6 | +6 | +6 | +5 | +6 | +7 | +7 | +7 | +7 | +7 | +7 | +6 | +6 | +6 | +5 | +5 |
| McKay | +6 | +6 | +6 | +6 | +6 | +6 | +5 | +6 | +7 | +6 | +5 | +6 | +6 | +6 | +6 | +7 | +6 | +6 |
| Moodie | +4 | +5 | +4 | +6 | +6 | +5 | +4 | +4 | +4 | +5 | +5 | +4 | +5 | +5 | +5 | +6 | +6 | +7 |
| McGill | +1 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +2 | +2 | +3 | +3 | +3 | +3 | +6 | +8 | +8 |
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
| Birdie | Bogey | Double bogey | Triple bogey+ |
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