2008 U.S. Women's Open Winner and Scores
The 2008 U.S. Women's Open was the 63rd time this major championship was played. The victor was the youngest winner to this point in the tournament's history.
Winner: Inbee Park, 283
Where it was played: Interlachen Country Club in Edina, Minnesota
Tournament dates: June 26-29, 2008
Leaders after first round: Pat Hurst and Ji Young Oh, 67
Leader after second round: Angela Park, 140
Leader after third round: Stacy Lewis, 210
What Happened in the 2008 U.S. Women's Open
Inbee Park won the 2008 U.S. Women's Open, and set a tournament record for youngest champion in the process. The 19-year-old Park was two strokes behind Stacy Lewis at the start of the final round, but shot 71 in that last round and won by four strokes.Park was 19 years, 11 months, 17 days old on the day of her win. That made her the first golfer younger than 20 (Se Ri Pak, 1998 champion, was the previous record-holder) to win this major. Remarkably, at the 2021 U.S. Women's Open, Yuka Saso won at the exact same age, tying Park's record.
Lewis held the third-round lead at 210, with Paula Creamer one stroke behind, and Park and Helen Alfredsson tied for third at 212. But Lewis (78) and Creamer (78) both struggled in the final round.
Park, on the other hand, opened her final round by birdying each of the first two holes. She gave those strokes back before the turn, then had three birdies (including on the 18th) against one bogey on the back nine. Alfredsson fell out of contention with a stretch of five bogeys in 10 holes in the middle of her round.
This was Inbee Park's very first win on the LPGA Tour. She didn't win again on the LPGA until 2012, but then won so much she became eligible for the LPGA Hall of Fame in 2016.
Three-time U.S. Women's Open champ Annika Sorenstam tied for 24th in what was her final appearance in this major prior to retirement at the end of the year. (She did later, in her 50s, play the USWO again.)
2008 U.S. Women's Open Final Scores
| Inbee Park | 72-69-71-71—283 |
| Helen Alfredsson | 70-71-71-75—287 |
| Angela Park | 73-67-75-73—288 |
| In Kyung Kim | 71-73-69-75—288 |
| Stacy Lewis | 73-70-67-78—288 |
| Giulia Sergas | 73-74-72-70—289 |
| Nicole Castrale | 74-70-74-71—289 |
| Mi Hyun Kim | 72-72-70-75—289 |
| Paula Creamer | 70-72-69-78—289 |
| Teresa Lu | 71-72-73-74—290 |
| a-Mariajo Uribe | 69-74-72-75—290 |
| Stacy Prammanasudh | 75-72-71-73—291 |
| Suzann Pettersen | 77-71-73-71—292 |
| Jee Young Lee | 71-75-74-72—292 |
| Cristie Kerr | 72-70-75-75—292 |
| Momoko Ueda | 72-71-73-76—292 |
| Morgan Pressel | 74-74-72-73—293 |
| Catriona Matthew | 70-77-73-73—293 |
| a-Jessica Korda | 72-78-75-69—294 |
| Jiyai Shin | 69-74-79-72—294 |
| Candie Kung | 72-70-79-73—294 |
| Na Yeon Choi | 76-71-71-76—294 |
| Jeong Jang | 73-69-74-78—294 |
| Pat Hurst | 67-78-77-73—295 |
| Song-Hee Kim | 68-76-75-76—295 |
| Annika Sorenstam | 75-70-72-78—295 |
| Laura Diaz | 77-70-73-76—296 |
| Ai Miyazato | 71-72-76-77—296 |
| Seon Hwa Lee | 75-70-73-78—296 |
| Minea Blomqvist | 72-69-76-79—296 |
| Sun-Ju Ahn | 76-71-78-72—297 |
| Lorena Ochoa | 73-74-76-74—297 |
| Karen Stupples | 74-73-75-75—297 |
| a-Alison Walshe | 73-74-73-77—297 |
| Brittany Lang | 71-75-74-77—297 |
| Ji Young Oh | 67-76-76-78—297 |
| Young Kim | 74-71-71-81—297 |
| Jennifer Rosales | 74-72-77-75—298 |
| Karrie Webb | 75-75-72-76—298 |
| Sherri Steinhauer | 75-75-71-77—298 |
| a-Amanda Blumenherst | 72-78-71-77—298 |
| Reilley Rankin | 72-75-79-73—299 |
| Eun-Hee Ji | 76-72-77-74—299 |
| Lindsey Wright | 78-72-74-75—299 |
| Jane Park | 78-71-75-75—299 |
| a-Paola Moreno | 73-76-75-75—299 |
| Rachel Hetherington | 71-75-78-75—299 |
| Na On Min | 77-73-73-76—299 |
| Katherine Kirk | 72-72-77-78—299 |
| Yani Tseng | 71-74-75-79—299 |
| Maria McBride | 76-74-73-77—300 |
| Sakura Yokomine | 71-75-77-77—300 |
| Sherri Turner | 76-70-81-74—301 |
| Leta Lindley | 77-73-76-75—301 |
| Christina Kim | 73-76-75-77—301 |
| Louise Friberg | 69-74-79-79—301 |
| Linda Wessberg | 70-79-79-74—302 |
| Meg Mallon | 75-72-82-74—303 |
| Marcy Hart | 78-72-78-75—303 |
| Brittany Lincicome | 74-73-78-78—303 |
| Whitney Wade | 77-73-74-79—303 |
| Karin Sjodin | 74-76-74-79—303 |
| Angela Stanford | 76-73-73-81—303 |
| Janice Moodie | 78-71-80-75—304 |
| Na Ri Kim | 76-71-79-78—304 |
| a-Sydnee Michaels | 71-76-76-81—304 |
| Shi Hyun Ahn | 73-73-77-81—304 |
| Jimin Kang | 73-72-77-83—305 |
| Kim Hall | 74-76-76-80—306 |
| Michele Redman | 74-76-80-77—307 |
| a-Tiffany Lua | 72-75-80-81—308 |
| Il-mi Chung | 76-74-75-83—308 |
| Hee-Won Han | 74-76-74-84—308 |
| Meena Lee | 75-74-80-82—311 |
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