Two players share the 72-hole scoring record for the U.S. Women’s Open, 272 — Annika Sorenstam (1996) and Juli Inkster (1999).

The last player to birdie the final hole to win the U.S. Women’s Open was Lauri Merten, 1993.

The winner of the first U.S. Women’s Open in 1946 was Patty Berg.

The last foreign player to win the U.S. Women’s Open was Karrie Webb of Australia, in 2000.

Catherine Lacoste is the only amateur to have won the U.S. Women’s Open (1967).

Former USGA President Judy Bell set the U.S. Women’s Open 9-hole scoring record of 31 in 1964. The record stood for 30 years.

Fay Crocker is the oldest winner of the U.S. Women’s Open. She was 40 years, 11 months in 1955.

Patty Sheehan was second in three U.S. Women’s Opens (1983, 1988, 1990) before winning in 1992.

The last U.S. Women’s Open winner to also win the LPGA money title was Karrie Webb, in 2000.

Mickey Wright and Betsy Rawls share the record for most U.S. Women’s Open wins — with four each.

The only Women’s Open to be played at match play was the first one in 1946.

The last U.S. Women’s Open champion to successfully defend her title was Annika Sorenstam, in 1996.

Three-time U.S. Women’s Open Champion Hollis Stacy also won the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship three times.

JoAnne Gunderson Carner won the U.S. Women’s Open in 1971 and 1976 and finished second five times.

The lowest score by a non-winner of the U.S. Women’s Open is 275 (9 under) by Nancy Lopez in 1997.

Babe Zaharias, history’s premier woman athlete, won her third U.S. Women’s Open in 1954 while battling cancer.

Brandie Burton, who will play in the 2001 U.S. Women’s Open, won the 1989 U.S. Girls’ Junior at Pine Needles.

Patty Berg made the first hole-in-one in the U.S. Women’s Open in 1959 at Churchill Valley C.C., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Betsy King was 12 strokes behind Patty Sheehan at one point in the 1990 U.S. Women’s Open, yet won by one stroke.

Four U.S. Girls’ Junior champions won the U.S. Women’s Open — Mickey Wright, JoAnne Gunderson Carner, Hollis Stacy and Amy Alcott.

Babe Zaharias won the 1954 U.S. Women’s Open paired in the final tow rounds with U.S. Girls’ Junior Champion Mickey Wright.

The most sub-par rounds in any U.S. Women’s Open was 135, at Old Waverly G.C., West Point, Miss., in 1999.

23. Five amateurs have finished second or tied for second in the U.S. Women’s Open — Polly Riley, Betsy Rawls, Barbara McIntire, Nancy Lopez, and Jenny Chuasiriporn.

24. Kathy Cornelius won the 1956 U.S. Women’s Open, 25 years before her daughter Kay won the 1981 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship.

25. In 1994, Helen Alfreddon set the U.S. Women’s Open 18-hole scoring record with at 63 in the first round.

26. The 9th hole at Crooked Stick G.C., Carmel, Ind., yielded 24 eagles, more than any other hole in U.S. Women’s Open history.

27. Patty Berg, JoAnne Gunderson Carner and Hollis Stacy have each received a record three special exemptions to play in the U.S. Women’s Open.

28. The youngest player to win the U.S. Women’s Open was Se Ri Pak, at 20 years, nine months and eight days in 1998.

29. Annika Sorenstam (1996) and Pat Bradley (1981) hold the record for best finishing round by a champion, shooting 66.

30. The largest winning margin by any U.S. Women’s Open Champion is 14 strokes, by Louise Suggs in 1949.