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Player Bio: Michelle Wie West2022 U.S. Women's Open

 

Age: 31
Country: United States of America
College: Stanford
Worldwide professional victories: 5
Road to Pine Needles: 2014 U.S. Women's Open champion

The former child prodigy broke through for her first major championship at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club's Course No. 2, holding off Stacy Lewis by two strokes to claim the 2014 U.S. Women's Open. It ended a historic week for the resort as it hosted the U.S. Open a week earlier, becoming the first venue to conduct the two championships in the same year. Wie West first competed in a USGA championship at age 10 when she qualified for the 2000 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links. Three years later, she became the championship's youngest winner at 13. She lost in the championship match a year later to Yani Tseng. In the 2003 Kraft Nabisco Championship (now Chevron Championship), she became the youngest to make a cut, shooting a 66 in Round 3, which placed her in the final group on Sunday. In 2006, Wie West advanced to Final qualifying for the U.S. Open and just narrowly missed becoming the first female to play in the championship. A year earlier, she advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur Public Links. She represented the USA in the 2004 Curtis Cup before turning pro in the fall of 2005. Her first LPGA Tour win came four years later in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico. Her last victory remains the 2018 HSBC Women's World Championship. Wie West married Jonnie West, the son of NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West, in 2019, and the couple welcomed their first child (Makenna) in June of 2020. This will be her 17th U.S. Women's Open start.

U.S. Women's Open Playing Record

YEAR

SITE

SCORES

TO PAR

FINISH

2022 Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club 73-74 +5 MC
2021 The Olympic Club (Lake Course) 74-80 +12 MC

2018

Shoal Creek

69-72-76-71—288

E

T-10

2017

Trump National Golf Club (Old Course)

73-WD

+1

WD

2016

CordeValle

75-74

+5

MC

2015

Lancaster Country Club

72-68-68-70—278

-2

11th

2014

Pinehurst Resort & C.C. (Course No. 2)

68-68-72-70—278

-2

Win

2013

Sebonack Golf Club

80-WD

+8

WD

2012

Blackwolf Run

74-66-78-80—298

+10

T-35

2011

The Broadmoor (East Course)

78-71-78-72—299

+15

T-55

2010

Oakmont Country Club

82-76

+16

MC

2008

Interlachen Country Club

81-75

+10

MC

2007

Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club

82-WD

+11

MC

2006 Newport Country Club 70-72-71-73—286 +2 T-3
2005 Cherry Hills Country Club 69-73-72-82—296 +12 T-23
2004 The Orchards Golf Club 71-70-71-73—285 +1 T-13
2003 Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club (Witch Hollow) 73-73-76-76—298 +14 T-39