Headlining the amateurs in the field this week are four of the top-six players in the Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com Women's Rankings: No. 1 Leona Maguire, No. 2 Hye-Jin Choi, No. 3 Jennifer Kupcho and No. 6 Eun Jeong Seong.
Maguire, a senior at Duke, will be playing in her second consecutive U.S. Women's Open and her fifth career major. Her best finish in a major came last year when she tied for 25th at the Women's British Open. This past year with the Blue Devils Maguire, from Ireland, won two Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com Rankings titles, the ACC Championship and LSU Tiger Golf Classic.
Hye-Jin Choi, a native of South Korea, has put together an impressive 2017 thus far with wins coming at the Australian Women's Amateur and Queen Sirikit Cup. Choi has also played impressively on the professional level, sharing seventh at the LPGA Tour - Australian Women's Open.
Kupcho is coming off a strong sophomore season at Wake Forest that saw her win the NCAA Women's South Regional and finish in the runner-up position in both the NCAA Women's Championship and ACC Women's Championship.
Seong, from South Korea, enters play as the reigning U.S. Girls' Junior Amateur and U.S. Women's Amateur champion.
Thursday (July 13), Hole #1 / Friday (July 14), Hole # 10
6:45 a.m. / 12:30 p.m. – Casey Danielson, Osceola, Wis.; Jessica Welch, Thomasville, Ga.; (a) SoWhi Kang, Republic of Korea
6:56 a.m. / 12:41 p.m. – Elin Arvidsson, Sweden; (a) Brooke Seay, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.; Angel Yin
8:02 a.m. / 1:47 p.m. – Mika Miyazato, Japan; (a) Virginia Elena Carta, Italy; Beatriz Recari, Spain
8:13 a.m. / 1:58 p.m. – Caroline Hedwall, Sweden; (a) Hye-Jin Choi, Republic of Korea; Haruka Morita, Japan
8:35 a.m. / 2:20 p.m. – (a) Mariel Galdiano, Pearl City, Hawaii; Stephanie Meadow, Northern Ireland; Ally McDonald, Fulton, Miss.
8:57 a.m. / 2:42 p.m. – (a) Dana Williams, Boca Raton, Fla.; August Kim, St. Augustine, Fla.; (a) Maddie Szeryk
Thursday (July 13), Hole #10 / Friday (July 14), Hole #1
6:45 a.m. / 12:30 p.m. – Ashleigh Ann Simon, South Africa; Pei-Ying Tsai, Chinese Taipei; (a) Emma Bradley, Naples, Fla.
7:29 a.m. / 1:14 p.m. – Ariya Jutanugarn, Thailand; So Yeon Ryu, Republic of Korea; (a) Leona Maguire, Republic of Ireland
7:40 a.m. / 1:25 p.m. – Brittany Lang, McKinney, Texas; In Gee Chun, Republic of Korea; (a) Eun Jeong Seong, Republic of Korea
8:57 a.m. / 2:42 p.m. – Sara Banke; (a) Ty Akabane, Danville, Calif.; Samantha Wagner, Orlando, Fla.
Thursday (July 13), Hole #1 / Friday (July 14), Hole #10
12:30 p.m. / 6:45 a.m. – (a) Bailey Tardy, Peachtree Corners, Ga.; Cheyenne Woods, Phoenix, Ariz.; Thidapa Suwannapura, Thailand
12:41 p.m. / 6:56 a.m. – Kelsey MacDonald, Scotland; Nanna Koertz Madsen, Denmark; (a) Paphangkorn Tavatanakit, Thailand
1:58 p.m. / 8:13 a.m. – Jeong Eun Lee, Republic of Korea; (a) Anne Chen, Sugar Land, Texas; Gaby Lopez, Mexico
2:09 p.m. / 8:24 a.m. – Meghan Maclaren, England; Kyung Kim, Chandler, Ariz.; (a) Robyn Choi, Australia
2:20 p.m. / 8:35 a.m. – Yan Liu, People’s Republic of China; (a) Dylan Kim, Plano, Texas; Valdis Thora Jonsdottir, Iceland
2:31 p.m. / 8:46 a.m. – Madelene Sagstrom; Becky Morgan, Wales; (a) Jennifer Kupcho, Denver, Colo.
2:42 p.m. / 8:57 a.m. – Marissa Steen, West Chester, Ohio; Carly Booth, Scotland; (a) Morgane Metraux, Switzerland
Thursday (July 13), Hole #10 / Friday (July 14), Hole #1
2:20 p.m. / 8:35 a.m. – Emma Henrikson, Sweden; Laura Gonzalez Escallon, Belgium; (a) Natalie Srinivasan, Spartanburg, S.C.
2:42 p.m. / 8:57 a.m. – Emily Childs, Alameda, Calif.; (a) Rachel Heck, Memphis, Tenn.; Nelly Korda