2017 Women's PGA Championship
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The 2017 KPMG Women's PGA Championship was the 63rd Women's PGA Championship, played June 29 – July 2 at Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Illinois, a suburb south of Chicago. Known as the LPGA Championship through 2014, it was the second of five major championships on the LPGA Tour during the 2017 season.
Tournament information | |
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Dates | June 29 – July 2, 2017 |
Location | Olympia Fields, Illinois |
Course(s) | Olympia Fields Country Club North Course [1] |
Organized by | PGA of America |
Tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
Format | Stroke play - 72 holes |
Statistics | |
Par | 71 |
Length | 6,588 yards (6,024 m)[2] |
Field | 156 players, 74 after cut |
Cut | 144 (+2) |
Prize fund | $3.5 million |
Winner's share | $525,000 |
Champion | |
Danielle Kang | |
271 (−13) | |
Danielle Kang won the championship for her first professional win, one stroke ahead of defending champion Brooke Henderson.[3]
Olympia Fields hosted the PGA Championship in 1925 and 1961, and the U.S. Open in 1928 and 2003. It has also been the site of the U.S. Senior Open (1997) and the U.S. Amateur (2015).[4]
Golf Channel and NBC Sports televised the Women's PGA for the third consecutive year.