Tournament information | |
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Dates | June 6–9, 2013 |
Location | Pittsford, New York, U.S. 43°05′17″N 77°33′47″W / 43.088°N 77.563°W |
Course(s) | Locust Hill Country Club |
Organized by | LPGA |
Tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
Format | Stroke play - 72 holes |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Length | 6,530 yards (5,971 m) |
Field | 150 players, 77 after cut |
Cut | 150 (+6) |
Prize fund | $2.25 million |
Winner's share | $337,500 |
Champion | |
Inbee Park | |
283 (−5), playoff | |
Location map | |
Location in the United States Location in New York | |
The 2013 LPGA Championship was the 59th LPGA Championship, held June 6–9 at Locust Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York, a suburb southeast of Rochester. Known for sponsorship reasons as the Wegmans LPGA Championship, it was the second of five major championships on the LPGA Tour during the 2013 season. This was the fourth consecutive year the LPGA Championship was played at Locust Hill.
Inbee Park, number one in the world rankings, won her third major title in a sudden-death playoff, defeating runner-up Catriona Matthew on the third extra hole, their 39th of the day. The third and fourth rounds were played on Sunday after play was washed out by heavy rain on Thursday.
The win was the second consecutive major for Park; she won the Kraft Nabisco Championship in April and became only the third to win both in the same year, joining Pat Bradley (1986) and Annika Sörenstam (2005).[1]
It was the eighth playoff at the LPGA Championship and the first since 2008.