Whereas there could also be some debate over which is a very powerful of the 4 males’s golf majors — one which pits the Open Championship’s historical past towards the mystique of the Masters — there isn’t a such dialogue in terms of the ladies’s sport. The U.S. Girls’s Open is the queen bee of the LPGA Tour schedule.
Established in 1947, the U.S. Girls’s Open is the oldest skilled match in girls’s golf and carries the largest purse at $12 million (US). Its listing of a number of winners is a who’s who of girls’s golf — Besty Rawls, Mikey Wright, Babe Zaharias, Hollis Stacy, JoAnne Carner, Betsy King, Patty Sheehan, Juli Inkster, Meg Mallon, Karrie Webb and Annika Sorenstam to call just a few. Final 12 months, Yuka Saso added her title to that listing when she prevailed at Lancaster Nation Membership in Pennsylvania.
This 12 months’s eightieth version of the match is going down in Wisconsin for the primary time since 2012. Then, Na Yeon Choi took residence the {hardware} at Blackwolf Run in Kohler. This week, Erin Hills is within the highlight. It’s a massive, broad golf course that was the positioning of Brooks Koepka’s 2017 U.S. Open triumph, the primary of his 5 main triumphs.
Right here is every thing that you must know in regards to the 2025 U.S. Girls’s Open.
The Course
Erin Hills caught the flowery of america Golf Affiliation instantly after it opened in 2006. At a time when the governing physique was shifting away from tree-lined personal nation golf equipment for its championships, the general public Erin Hills, constructed on a large parcel of largely treeless land in rural Wisconsin, provided one thing new.
Unique proprietor Bob Lang employed Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry to design the course, which they did with enter from longtime Golf Digest structure critic Ron Whitten. Lang had grand visions of championship golf at Erin Hills and two years after the course opened the USGA performed the U.S. Girls’s Novice Public Hyperlinks there. The USGA then awarded the 2017 U.S. Open to Erin Hills and introduced the 2011 U.S. Novice to the course as a take a look at run. Lang needed to promote the course amid monetary hardships and the structure underwent plenty of revisions requested by the USGA after it was bought by Andrew Ziegler.
At over 7,800 yards (at elevation) for the primary spherical, the course performed because the longest in U.S. Open historical past in 2017, however its huge fairways and calm situations made it simple pickings and Koepka received with a record-tying 16-under-par complete. This week’s U.S. Girls’s Open would be the first main at Erin Hills since that point, although the course did welcome the 2022 U.S. Mid-Novice. The course will measure simply over 6,800 yards and play as a par 72.
The Favourites
Jeeno Thitikul leads the LPGA Tour’s factors race coming into the U.S. Girls’s Open because of her current victory on the Mizuho Americas Open and 5 further prime 10s. The 22-year-old Thai golfer is in the hunt for her first main victory this week, having racked up seven prime 10s in 23 profession main begins. She doesn’t have a top-three end, nevertheless, together with her greatest outcome being a solo-fourth on the 2022 KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship. She leads the LPGA Tour in strokes gained complete this season.Bet99 odds: +900
Nelly Korda stays atop the Rolex Girls’s World Golf Rankings, however the 15-time LPGA Tour winner is and not using a victory this season and sits fifteenth on the Race to CME Globe. After struggling a neck harm final fall that pressured her out of two tournaments in Asia, Korda started 2025 with a runner-up end within the Match of Championships however went and not using a top-five end till two weeks in the past on the Mizuho Americas Open. Nonetheless, she is second on tour in strokes gained complete, first in scoring common and first in birdie proportion.Bet99 odds: +1450
At 24, Haeran Ryu has taken over as the highest girls’s golfer from South Korea, sitting fifth within the Rolex Girls’s World Golf Rankings. She captured the Black Desert Championship earlier this month by 5 pictures, her third profession LPGA Tour title. The five-time winner on the LPGA of Korea Tour has completed within the prime 10 in 4 of the final six main championships. She leads the tour in strokes gained tee to inexperienced, stat for any U.S. Open. Bet99 odds: +1450
A 3-time winner in 2024 and a two-time winner in 2023, Ruoning Yin hasn’t but received this season, however she put collectively back-to-back runner-up finishes on the Chevron Championship, the season’s first main, and the Black Desert Championship. She was then T15 on the Mizuhos Americas Open. These three outcomes got here after 5 finishes outdoors the highest 20 to start out the season, so clearly Yin has turned issues round. Her lone main victory got here on the 2023 KPMG Girls’s PGA. Bet99 odds: +1800
Former World No. 1 Jin Younger Ko is winless since 2023, however she has 4 prime 10s in eight begins this season, together with two in her final two begins. She received two main championships in 2019, together with the CPKC Girls’s Open, and tied for second within the 2020 U.S. Girls’s Open. She tied for sixth on the Chevron Championship final month.Bet99 odds: +2000
The Canadians
5 Canadians will tee it up at Erin Hills with two-time main winner Brooke Henderson joined by 4 qualifiers: Vanessa Borovilos, Celeste Dao, Anna Huang and Leah John.
Henderson continues to be looking for her type this season because the 13-time LPGA Tour winner sits in unfamiliar positions on the Rolex Girls’s World Golf Rankings (forty second) and Race to CME Globe (forty eighth). Her lone prime 10 — a T9 — got here within the T-Cell Match Play the place she misplaced within the Spherical of 16. The 27-year-old from Smiths Falls, Ont., had a stable T12 end on the Black Desert Championship however then missed the minimize in her final occasion, the Mizuho Americas Open. Henderson’s greatest U.S. Girls’s Open end is a T5 in 2015, one in all 16 profession prime 10s in majors.
Borovilos hails from the Toronto borough of Etobicoke and earned one in all two spots out there at a 36-hole qualifier at Elgin Nation Membership in Illinois. This would be the first main championship begin for the 19-year-old newbie coming off her freshman season at Texas A&M College. Borovilos was the medallist at Elgin Nation Membership with two rounds of 68 for an 8-under-par complete.
Dao isn’t any stranger to the U.S. Girls’s Open because the Quebecer has now certified for the championship 4 occasions. Nonetheless, this can be Dao’s first main look as knowledgeable. She took the lone qualifier spot at Salem Nation Membership in Massachusetts with rounds of 72-71. She’s a College of Georgia alum.
Huang is one in all three 16-year-olds within the subject this week at Erin Hills, having completed because the runner-up on the qualifier at New Albany Nation Membership in Ohio. The Vancouver native turned skilled in December after incomes standing on the Women European Tour and has made 5 cuts in six begins on that circuit this 12 months.
John was the co-medallist at her qualifier in Sacramento at Del Paso Nation Membership. Additionally from Vancouver, John is plying her commerce on the Epson Tour, the LPGA Tour’s developmental circuit, the place she’s made three cuts in seven begins this season. She had two top-10 finishes in 12 begins on that tour final 12 months after turning professional within the spring of 2024. John attended the College of Nevada.
Chip Pictures
– There have been 1,904 entrants for this 12 months’s U.S. Girls’s Open, the second most in match historical past.
– The semi-retired Lexi Thompson will make her nineteenth consecutive begin within the U.S. Girls’s Open. Now 30, Thompson has performed within the match since she first certified as a 12-year-old.
– Former World No. 1 Yani Tseng is making her first U.S. Girls’s Open begin since 2016 after efficiently qualifying for the championship. The Taiwanese golfer received 5 main titles from 2008 to 2011 however her profession nosedived in 2013 and he or she is now ranked 995th on this planet. Since reappearing on the LPGA Tour in 2024, she has not made a minimize in 14 begins. The truth is, her final made minimize got here in 2018. She is a 15-time LPGA Tour winner.
– Emily Odwin will turn out to be the primary golfer from Barbados — male or feminine — to play in a serious championship when she tees it up Thursday. She certified on the historic Olympic Membership in San Francisco. Odwin realized the sport at Royal Westmorland and now attends Southern Methodist College in Dallas.
