June 4-7, 2026, The Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Calif.
World No. 1 Nelly Korda captured the 81st U.S. Women’s Open Presented by Ally by a single stroke on Sunday at The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., closing with a 2-under-par 69 for a 72-hole total of 8-under 276.
A year after tying for second at Erin Hills, the 27-year-old from Bradenton, Fla., captured her first USGA title. Korda took the outright lead for the first time with a 9-foot birdie on the par-5 17th, then holed a 3-foot par putt on the 72nd hole to edge Charley Hull and Gaby Lopez. The victory was the 19th of Korda’s LPGA career and gave her the first two majors of 2026, lifting her to four major titles overall.
Charley Hull, seeking her first major, closed with a weekend 132 (65-67) to finish in a tie for second place. The runner-up showing was the fifth of her major career, the second-most by any player without a title. Gaby Lopez birdied the 72nd hole for a Sunday 68 to join Hull at 7-under 277.
In Gee Chun, the 2015 champion, reached 9 under through 11 holes before back-to-back bogeys on 12 and 13 derailed her bid for a fourth major. She finished solo fourth at 6-under 278. Sei Young Kim took solo fifth at 5-under 279.
World No. 1 amateur Kiara Romero, an All-American at the University of Oregon, earned low-amateur honors by one stroke, closing with a 3-under 68 for a 72-hole total of 3-under 281. Romero (T-6) and Maria José Marin (T-8) each finished inside the top 10, the best result by multiple amateurs at the championship since Morgan Pressel and Brittany Lang tied for second in 2005, earning them each a spot in next year’s championship at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.
NOTABLE
- Korda, at 27 years, 10 months and 10 days old today, is the ninth player to win four major championships prior to turning 28 years old (she’s the eighth-youngest to do it):
- Korda, who was T-56 after the first round, is just the second U.S. Women’s Open champion to be ranked 50th or lower after 18 holes, joining Sung Hyun Park, who was T-58 in 2017. The seven-shot deficit she faced after the first round matches the largest ever overcome to win the championship, a feat also accomplished by Park (2017), Meg Mallon (2004), Susie Berning (1972), and Carol Mann (1965).
- Korda is the first player to win back-to-back majors since Lydia Ko at the 2015 Evian Championship and 2016 ANA Inspiration, and the first American to do so since Juli Inkster at the 1999 U.S. Women’s Open and McDonald’s LPGA Championship. She is the first player to win the first two majors of a calendar year since Inbee Park won the first three in 2013 (Kraft Nabisco Championship, Wegmans LPGA Championship, and U.S. Women’s Open). She is only the second American in the last 10 years to win the U.S. Women’s Open, joining Allisen Corpuz in 2023. She is the eighth player — and fifth American, joining Pat Bradley, Juli Inkster, Betsy King, and Patty Sheehan — to win all three majors played on American soil (Chevron, U.S. Women’s Open, and KPMG Women’s PGA Championship).
- Charley Hull has matched the U.S. Women’s Open record for the lowest 36-hole score over the final two rounds (132), set by Meg Mallon when she won in 2004. The next best is 134, by Karrie Webb in 1997, when she finished fourth.
- Since 1980, only twice have multiple amateurs finished in the top 10 at the U.S. Women’s Open: in 2005 (Brittany Lang and Morgan Pressel, both T-2) and 2006 (Jane Park and Amanda Blumenherst, both T-10).
- Lowest four-round total scores by amateurs in the U.S. Women’s Open:
