Mehaffey added to US Women's Open field; Maguire misses out
Olivia Mehaffey. Picture by Pat Cashman
Leona Maguire misses out but Arizona State’s Olivia Mehaffey is one of 20 amateurs added to the field for the 75th US. Women’s Open Championship at Champions Golf Club in Houston from December 10-13.
As previously announced, the 156-player field for the championship will be entirely comprised of exempt players due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 20 amateurs earned exemptions based on the World Amateur Golf Ranking® as of Nov. 4.
The top 20 points leaders not already exempt who applied to play before the Nov. 11 entry deadline are:
No. 1 Rose Zhang, of Irvine, Calif.
No. 2 Ingrid Lindblad, of Sweden
No. 3 Pauline Roussin-Bouchard, of France
No. 5 Linn Grant, of Sweden
No. 6 Emilia Migliaccio, of Cary, N.C.
No. 7 Alessia Nobilio, of Italy
No. 8 Ho Yu An, of Chinese Taipei
No. 11 Benedetta Moresco, of Italy
No. 12 Agathe Laisne, of France
No. 13 Maja Stark, of Sweden
No. 14 Lucie Malchirand, of France
No. 15 Beatrice Wallin, of Sweden
No. 16 Olivia Mehaffey, of Ireland
No. 17 Lily May Humphreys, of England
No. 19 Kaitlyn Papp, of Austin, Texas
No. 20 Emma Spitz, of Austria
No. 22 Caterina Don, of Italy
No. 23 Amelia Garvey, of New Zealand
No. 25 Auston Kim, of St. Augustine, Fla.
No. 27 Allisen Corpuz, of Honolulu, Hawaii
Mehaffey is a four-time All-American at Arizona State University. She returned for a fifth year of eligibility with the Sun Devils this fall and will be playing in her third professional major of the year after making the cut at the AIG Women’s Open in August at Royal Troon and competing in the ANA Inspiration in September.
Maguire had hoped to make the field through the top 10 not already exempt from the LPGA Tour money list after the LPGA Drive On Championship but was pipped by one place for the last spot after a poor finish to her week there.
The remainder of the field was made up from the leading non-exempt players from the Rolex Rankings but while 33 players were added, the list only went down to world No 100 Jing Yan, leaving 173rd ranked Leona to sit it out.
