The 2016 ANA Inspiration was the 45th ANA Inspiration, held March 31 – April 3 at the Dinah Shore Tournament Course of Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. It was its 34th year as a major championship. Golf Channel televised the event for the 6th consecutive year.

2016 ANA Inspiration
Tournament information
DatesMarch 31 – April 3, 2016
LocationRancho Mirage, California
33°47′53″N 116°25′59″W / 33.798°N 116.433°W / 33.798; -116.433
Course(s)Mission Hills Country Club
Dinah Shore Tournament Course
Tour(s)LPGA Tour
FormatStroke play - 72 holes
Statistics
Par72
Length6,769 yards (6,190 m)[1]
Field111 players,
73 after cut
Cut146 (+2)
Prize fund$2.6 million
Winner's share$390,000
Champion
New Zealand Lydia Ko
276 (−12)
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Lydia Ko won by one stroke over Chun In-gee and Charley Hull.[2]

Field

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Players who 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.[3]

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 (2,8), Karrie Webb (2,5,8)

2. Winners of all previous ANA Inspirations

Stacy Lewis (3,5,6,7,8,9), Brittany Lincicome (5,6,7,8,9), Inbee Park (3,5,6,7,8,9), Morgan Pressel (6,7,8,9), Lexi Thompson (5,6,7,8,9), Yani Tseng (3,8), Yoo Sun-young (8)

3. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open, Women's PGA Championship, and Ricoh Women's British Open in the previous five years

Choi Na-yeon (5,8,9), Chun In-gee (5,7,9,10), Shanshan Feng (5,6,7,8,9,10), Mo Martin (5,8), Ryu So-yeon (5,6,7,8,9), Michelle Wie (5,8)

Jiyai Shin (5,9) did not play.

4. Winners of The Evian Championship in the previous two years

Kim Hyo-joo (5,6,8,9), Lydia Ko (5,7,8,9)

5. Winners of official LPGA Tour tournaments from the 2013 Kraft Nabisco Championship through the week immediately preceding the 2016 ANA Inspiration

Brooke Henderson (7,9), M. J. Hur (8), Jang Ha-na (8,9), Jennifer Johnson, Cristie Kerr (8,9), Christina Kim (6,8), Kim Sei-young (6,7,8,9,12), Jessica Korda (8,9), Ilhee Lee (7,8), Lee Mi-hyang (6,7,8), Minjee Lee (8,9), Mirim Lee (6,8,9), Haru Nomura (8), Anna Nordqvist (6,8,9), Lee-Anne Pace (8), Park Hee-young (8), Suzann Pettersen (6,7,8,9), Beatriz Recari (8), Lizette Salas (8), Kris Tamulis (8), Amy Yang (7,8,9)

Teresa Lu (9,10) did not play.

6. All players who finished in the top-20 in the previous year's ANA Inspiration

Carlota Ciganda (8), Austin Ernst (8), Karine Icher (8), Ariya Jutanugarn (8), Moriya Jutanugarn (8), Pernilla Lindberg (7,8), Catriona Matthew (8), Stephanie Meadow, Gerina Piller (8,9), Jenny Shin (8), Angela Stanford (8)

7. All players who finished in the top-5 of the previous year's U.S. Women's Open, Women's PGA Championship, Ricoh Women's British Open and The Evian Championship

Ko Jin-young (9), Shiho Oyama, Jane Park (8)

8. Top-80 on the previous year's season-ending LPGA Tour official money list

Marina Alex, Baek Kyu-jung, Christel Boeljon, Chella Choi, Paula Creamer, Sandra Gal, Julieta Granada, Jaye Marie Green, Wei-Ling Hsu, Charley Hull, Ji Eun-hee, Danielle Kang, Kim Kaufman, In-Kyung Kim, Candie Kung, Min Seo Kwak, Brittany Lang, Alison Lee (9), Min Lee, Xi Yu Lin, Caroline Masson, Maria McBride, Sydnee Michaels, Ai Miyazato, Mika Miyazato, Azahara Muñoz, Ryann O'Toole, Pornanong Phatlum (9), Alena Sharp, Kelly Shon, Jennifer Song, Ayako Uehara, Mariajo Uribe, Sakura Yokomine

9. Top-30 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of a March 8, 2016

Lee Bo-mee (10), Park Sung-hyun (10)

Ahn Sun-ju 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

Melissa Reid

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

Cydney Clanton, Jacqui Concolino, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Simin Feng, Tiffany Joh, Megan Khang, P.K. Kongkraphan, Gaby López, Annie Park, Paula Reto, Thidapa Suwannapura, Kelly Tan, Julie Yang

12. Previous year's Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year

13. Previous year's U.S. Women's Amateur champion, provided she is still an amateur at the beginning of tournament competition

Hannah O'Sullivan

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

Caroline Hedwall, Gwladys Nocera

15. Up to six sponsor invitations for top-ranked amateur players

Sierra Brooks, Karen Chung, Bronte Law, Andrea Lee, Leona Maguire, Albane Valenzuela

Course layout

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Dinah Shore Tournament Course

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Yards 377 517 420 380 182 391 395 169 538 3,369 388 536 389 424 148 387 418 179 531 3,400 6,769
Par 4 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 5 36 4 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 5 36 72

Round summaries

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First round

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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Place Player Score To par
T1   Ai Miyazato 67 −5
  Azahara Muñoz
T3   Catriona Matthew 68 −4
  Shiho Oyama
  Lee-Anne Pace
T6   Chun In-gee 69 −3
  Jang Ha-na
  Ariya Jutanugarn
  Lee Mi-hyang
  Ryann O'Toole
  Gerina Piller
  Lexi Thompson
  Amy Yang

Second round

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Friday, April 1, 2016

Place Player Score To par
T1   Ai Miyazato 67-70=137 −7
  Lexi Thompson 69-68=137
T3   Chun In-gee 69-69=138 −6
  Lydia Ko 70-68=138
  Lee-Anne Pace 68-70=138
  Park Sung-hyun 71-67=138
  Suzann Pettersen 71-67=138
  Lizette Salas 71-67=138
T9   Jang Ha-na 69-70=139 −5
  Lee Bo-mee 73-66=139
  Minjee Lee 71-68=139
  Michelle Wie 70-69=139

Third round

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Saturday, April 2, 2016

Place Player Score To par
1   Lexi Thompson 69-68-69=206 −10
T2   Chun In-gee 69-69-69=207 −9
  Ariya Jutanugarn 69-71-67=207
  Lydia Ko 70-68-69=207
T5   Charley Hull 70-69-69=208 −8
  Ai Miyazato 67-70-71=208
T7   Caroline Masson 70-71-68=209 −7
  Lee-Anne Pace 68-70-71=209
  Park Sung-hyun 71-67-71=209
  Suzann Pettersen 71-67-71=209
  Michelle Wie 70-69-70=209

Final round

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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1   Lydia Ko 70-68-69-69=276 −12 390,000
T2   Chun In-gee 69-69-69-70=277 −11 208,182
  Charley Hull 70-69-69-69=277
4   Ariya Jutanugarn 69-71-67-71=278 −10 135,417
5   Lexi Thompson 69-68-69-73=279 −9 108,996
T6   Caroline Masson 70-71-68-71=280 −8 72,004
  Inbee Park 70-73-69-68=280
  Park Sung-hyun 71-67-71-71=280
  Gerina Piller 69-71-70-70=280
T10   Brooke Henderson 73-69-72-67=281 −7 48,155
  Lee Bo-mee 73-66-72-70=281
  Suzann Pettersen 71-67-71-72=281
  Ryu So-yeon 72-69-71-69=281

Scorecard

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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 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −10 −10 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −12
  Chun −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −10 −10 −11
  Hull −8 −7 −7 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −8 −9 −9 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −11
  Jutanugarn −9 −9 −10 −9 −9 −9 −10 −10 −11 −12 −13 −13 −13 −13 −13 −12 −11 −10
  Thompson −9 −9 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −9
  Park −4 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −7 −7 −8
  Henderson −3 −3 −3 −3 −4 −4 −4 −3 −3 −3 −4 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7
  Miyazato −8 −8 −8 −7 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −8 −7 −6 −6 −6 −5 −5 −5

References

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  1. ^ "The Course". ANA Inspiration. 2016. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  2. ^ "Lydia Ko exploits Ariya Jutanugarn's collapse to win ANA Inspiration". ESPN. Associated Press. April 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Player Eligibility". ANA Inspiration. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
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