1999 U.S. Women's Open Winner and Scores

The 1999 U.S. Women's Open was the 54th time this major championship was played. It was 20th time Juli Inkster played it — but the first time Inkster won it.

Winner: Juli Inkster, 272

Where it was played: Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Mississippi

Tournament dates: June 3-6, 1999

Leader after first round: Kelli Kuehne, 64

Leader after second round: Juli Inkster and Lorie Kane, 134

Leader after third round: Juli Inkster, 201

What Happened at the 2013 U.S. Women's Open

The U.S. Women's Open 18-hole scoring record was challenged multipe times in the first two rounds, when three different golfers recorded 64s. But in the end, Juli Inkster set the only scoring record that mattered here — the one that won her the tournament.

Inkster, who opened with a 65, was one off the lead following the first round and tied for the lead after two rounds. But her 67 in the third round moved her four strokes in front. She wound up winning by five strokes over runner-up Sherri Turner.

Inkster's 271 total tied the tournament's then-record 72-hole stroke total (a record since broken). And her score in relation to par of 16-under established a new tournament record, beating the previous best of 10-under. In fact, Turner's 11-under also bettered the previous record, but was only good enough for second place here.

In the first round, Kelli Kuehne's 64 was one stroke off the tournament record, but was the first 64 ever recorded in a U.S. Women's Open. In the second round, both Lorie Kane and Becky Iverson added 64s. Kuehne, Kane and Iverson finished third, fourth and 12th, respectively.

Inkster, 38 years old at the time, won the 1999 LPGA Championship several weeks later. Those wins were the fourth and fifth major championship wins, respectively, of her Hall of Fame career.

Future LPGA major champion Grace Park was low amateur, tying for eighth place. Her 283 total established a tournament record for amateurs that was not bettered until 2017.

1999 U.S. Women's Open Final Scores

Juli Inkster	65-69-67-71—272
Sherri Turner	69-69-68-71—277
Kelli Kuehne	64-71-70-74—279
Lorie Kane	70-64-71-75—280
Meg Mallon	70-70-69-72—281
Carin Koch	72-69-68-72—281
Karrie Webb	70-70-68-74—282
Helen Dobson	71-70-73-69—283
Maria Hjorth	73-69-70-71—283
Catriona Matthew	69-68-74-72—283
a-Grace Park	70-67-73-73—283
Helen Alfredsson	72-68-70-74—284
Becky Iverson	72-64-73-75—284
Michele Redman	72-71-75-67—285
Se Ri Pak	68-70-74-73—285
Dottie Pepper	68-69-72-76—285
Liselotte Neumann	73-71-69-73—286
A.J. Eathorne	69-71-71-75—286
Catrin Nilsmark	69-71-70-76—286
Cindy McCurdy	72-72-74-69—287
Leta Lindley	72-72-73-70—287
Sophie Gustafson	72-72-70-73—287
Donna Andrews	69-71-72-75—287
Akiko Fukushima	69-70-71-77—287
Kim Saiki	70-71-73-74—288
Rosie Jones	71-70-72-75—288
Stefania Croce	71-71-71-75—288
Lisa Kiggens	71-67-73-77—288
Sherri Steinhauer	68-69-73-78—288
Mhairi McKay	73-68-76-72—289
Jean Zedlitz	75-67-75-72—289
Mardi Lunn	72-71-74-72—289
Nancy Scranton	69-72-75-73—289
Dawn Coe-Jones	73-71-71-74—289
Anna Acker-Macosko	73-71-71-74—289
Kelly Robbins	70-70-74-75—289
Hiromi Kobayashi	74-70-76-70—290
Dana Dormann	74-70-73-73—290
a-Kellee Booth	71-73-70-76—290
Michelle Estill	76-68-74-73—291
Missie Berteotti	73-71-73-74—291
Kris Tschetter	72-72-71-76—291
Moira Dunn	67-71-75-78—291
Wendy Ward	70-71-72-78—291
Pamela Kerrigan	71-73-77-71—292
Suzanne Strudwick	74-70-70-78—292
Betsy King	70-70-79-74—293
Barb Mucha	71-69-77-76—293
Beth Daniel	71-71-75-76—293
Vickie Odegard	71-69-75-78—293
Wendy Doolan	71-71-73-78—293
Alison Munt	69-74-72-78—293
Maggie Will	71-72-75-76—294
Rachel Hetherington	70-70-76-78—294
Lisa Hackney	71-70-76-78—295
Jenny Lidback	73-70-74-78—295
Cindy Figg-Currier	72-68-76-79—295
Alison Nicholas	72-72-71-80—295
Patti Rizzo	73-71-74-78—296
Jennifer Feldott	74-70-83-70—297
Penny Hammel	74-70-77-76—297
Kimberly Millies	72-72-77-77—298
Tammie Green	72-71-80-76—299

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