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2017 ANA Inspiration

The 2017 ANA Inspiration was a professional women's golf tournament played March 30 – April 2 at the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. It was the 46th edition of the tournament, and its 35th as one of the Women's majors.

Field
Players that 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. 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), Karrie Webb (2,5,7,8) • Pak Se-ri did not play 2. Winners of all previous ANA Inspirations Lydia Ko (4,5,6,7,8,9), Stacy Lewis (3,5,6,7,8,9), Brittany Lincicome (5,8), Inbee Park (3,5,6,8,9), Morgan Pressel (8), Lexi Thompson (5,6,8,9), Yani Tseng, Yoo Sun-young (6) 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 (5,6,8), Chun In-gee (4,6,7,8,9,12), Shanshan Feng (5,7,8,9), Brooke Henderson (5,6,7,8,9), Ariya Jutanugarn (6,7,8,9), Brittany Lang (7,8,9), Mo Martin (6,7,8,9), Michelle Wie (5) • Jiyai Shin (9,10) did not play 4. Winners of The Evian Championship in the previous four years Kim Hyo-joo (5,6,8,9), Suzann Pettersen (5,6,8,9) 5. Winners of official LPGA Tour tournaments from the 2014 Kraft Nabisco Championship through the week immediately preceding the 2017 ANA Inspiration Baek Kyu-jung, Chella Choi (8), Carlota Ciganda (8,9), Paula Creamer (8), Austin Ernst (8), M. J. Hur (6,8), Jang Ha-na (7,8,9), Cristie Kerr (8), Christina Kim (8), In-Kyung Kim (8,9), Kim Sei-young (7,8,9), Jessica Korda (8,9), Lee Mi-hyang (8), Minjee Lee (8,9), Mirim Lee (7,8,9), Caroline Masson (6,8), Haru Nomura (8,9), Anna Nordqvist (7,8,9), Lee-Anne Pace (6,8), Ryu So-yeon (6,7,8,9), Lizette Salas (8), Jenny Shin (8), Kris Tamulis (8), Amy Yang (6,7,8,9) • Ahn Sun-ju (9) did not play 6. '''All players who finished in the top-20 in the previous year's ANA Inspiration''' Jodi Ewart Shadoff (8), Charley Hull (8,9), Lee Bo-mee (9,10), Pernilla Lindberg (8), Ai Miyazato (8), Park Sung-hyun (7,9,10), Gerina Piller (8,9), Paula Reto (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''' Ji Eun-hee (8), Catriona Matthew (8), Park Hee-young (8) 8. '''Top-80 on the previous year's season-ending LPGA Tour official money list''' Marina Alex, Katie Burnett, Jacqui Concolino, Simin Feng, Sandra Gal, Karine Icher, Moriya Jutanugarn, Danielle Kang, Kim Kaufman, Megan Khang, Candie Kung, Alison Lee, Lin Xiyu, Gaby López, Lee Lopez, Mika Miyazato, Azahara Muñoz, Su-Hyun Oh, Ryann O'Toole, Pornanong Phatlum, Beatriz Recari, Alena Sharp, Kelly Shon, Sarah Jane Smith, Jennifer Song, Nontaya Srisawang, Angela Stanford, Ayako Uehara, Mariajo Uribe, Jing Yan, Sakura YokomineSydnee Michaels did not play 9. '''Top-30 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of a March 7, 2017''' • Teresa Lu 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''' Beth Allen, Aditi Ashok, Ko Jin-young 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 Laetitia Beck, Pei-Yun Chien, Laura Gonzalez Escallon, Caroline Hedwall, Nelly Korda, Maude-Aimee Leblanc, Lee Jeong-eun, Katherine Perry, Melissa Reid, Marissa Steen, Jackie Stoelting, Angel Yin 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''' Seong Eun-jeong 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''' 15. Up to six sponsor invitations for top-ranked amateur players Katelyn Dambaugh, Andrea Lee, Lucy Li, Hannah O'Sullivan, Paphangkorn Tavatanakit ==Round summaries==
Round summaries
First round Thursday, March 30, 2017 Friday, March 31, 2017 Due to high winds, play was suspended at 3:16 pm PDT; it resumed on Friday at 9:11 am and the round concluded at 12:24 pm PDT. Second round Friday, March 31, 2017 Saturday, April 1, 2017 Third round Saturday, April 1, 2017 With six holes remaining in the final round on Sunday, Thompson was notified by officials that she had been retroactively issued two penalties on her third round score. Several weeks later on April 25, the USGA and The R&A issued Decision 34-3/10, which was effective immediately. It limits the use of video evidence if the infraction "can't be seen with the naked eye", or the player had done "all that can be reasonably expected to make an accurate estimation or measurement" in order to correctly play or spot their ball, even if video evidence suggests otherwise. Although the sanctioning bodies stated that this was part of an effort to update and modernize the Rules of Golf, media outlets considered the ruling to be a response to this incident (as well as a separate incident from the U.S. Women's Open in 2016), going as far as nicknaming it the "Lexi Thompson rule." Final round Sunday, April 2, 2017 After a bogey at the 12th hole to fall to 16-under, Thompson was notified by officials of the four-stroke penalty as she walked to the 13th tee; this lowered her score to 12-under, two strokes behind Lee. Both Thompson and Ryu birdied the final hole to finish at the top of the leaderboard at 274 (−14). Scorecard Final round Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par Source: Playoff The sudden-death playoff began on the par-5 18th hole; Ryu birdied to win the title. ==References==
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