2003 LPGA Championship


The 2003 LPGA Championship was the 49th LPGA Championship, played June 5–8 at DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware.
Annika Sörenstam won in a playoff over Grace Park with a par on the first sudden death hole. It was the first of three consecutive LPGA Championships for Sorenstam and the fifth of her ten major titles.
Two weeks earlier, Sörenstam played in a PGA Tour event, the Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas.
The DuPont Country Club hosted this championship for eleven consecutive seasons, from 1994 through 2004.

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

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Missed the cut

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Final leaderboard

Sunday, June 8, 2003
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
T1Annika Sörenstam70-64-72-72=278−6Playoff
T1Grace Park69-72-70-67=278−6Playoff
T3Beth Daniel71-71-70-72=284E85,718
T3Rosie Jones73-68-72-71=284E85,718
T3Rachel Teske69-70-74-71=284E85,718
T6Kate Golden72-70-68-75=285+141,873
T6Young Kim70-73-72-70=285+141,873
T6Joanne Mills68-73-75-69=285+141,873
T6Becky Morgan73-70-70-72=285+141,873
T6Young-A Yang73-74-69-69=285+141,873

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Playoff

The sudden-death playoff began on the par-4 18th hole, where Park missed the green, chipped from the heavy rough to but failed to save par. Sörenstam had a for birdie, then tapped in for par to win.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Annika Sörenstam4E240,000
2Grace Park5+1147,934