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2022 Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play, Hosted by Shadow Creek, Las Vegas: 25-29 May
Eun-Hee Ji wins Bank of Hope Match-Play and her entry to the Women's Open
From LPGA News, by AP:
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Eun-Hee Ji won the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play on Sunday for a spot next week in the U.S. Women's Open, beating Ayaka Furue 3 and 2 in cooler conditions at Shadow Creek.
Ji, the 2009 U.S. Women's Open winner at Saucon Valley, took the last spot at Pine Needles with her sixth LPGA Tour victory and first since 2019.
"I'm so excited to win the tournament," Ji said. "Then going to next week, this is the way to be going into next week. I'm so excited." Read more
From Golfweek, by Todd Kelly:
Eun-Hee Ji won on the LPGA for the first time in three years.
Her timing couldn’t have been better.
Ji outlasted the 64-player field at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play at Shadow Creek in Vegas and by winning, she clinched the final spot in this week’s U.S. Women’s Open.
Ji was one of 19 hopefuls in Vegas who were not yet in the field at Pine Needles. She becomes the first player since Katherine Kirk in 2017 to win the LPGA tournament prior to the U.S. Women’s Open and thereby clinch the final spot. Read more
From The Golf News Net:
The 2022 Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play format is unique in golf because it's not only the rare match-play event in professional golf, but it's an individual match-play event with a round-robin group component designed to help preserve the best players in the tournament from being eliminated in a potential fluke loss in the first three days of the event.
The Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play format is similar to that of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, with a 64-player event beginning with 16 groups of round-robin play leading to 16 group winners who advance into a single-elimination, bracket-style tournament to determine a winner. Read more
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