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2003 LPGA Championship

Field	Value
name	2003 LPGA Championship
dates	June 5–8, [2003](2003-lpga-tour)
location	Wilmington, Delaware
course	DuPont Country Club
tour	LPGA Tour
par	71
yardage	6408 yd
field	144 players, 70 after cut
format	Stroke play - 72 holes
cut	146 (+4)
purse	$1.6 million
winners_share	$240,000
champion	SWE Annika Sörenstam
score	278 (−6), playoff
previous	[2002](2002-lpga-championship)
next	[2004](2004-lpga-championship)
map	USA#USA Delaware
map_label	DuPont CC
map_caption	Location in United States##Location in Delaware
map_relief	yes
coordinates

The 2003 LPGA Championship was the 49th LPGA Championship, played June 5–8 at DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware.

Annika Sörenstam won in a playoff over Grace Park with a par on the first sudden death hole. It was the first of three consecutive LPGA Championships for Sorenstam and the fifth of her ten major titles.

Two weeks earlier, Sörenstam played in a PGA Tour event, the Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas.

The DuPont Country Club hosted this championship for eleven consecutive seasons, from 1994 through 2004.

Final leaderboard

Sunday, June 8, 2003

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	SWE Annika Sörenstam	70-64-72-72=278	−6	Playoff
KOR Grace Park	69-72-70-67=278
T3	USA Beth Daniel	71-71-70-72=284	E	85,718
USA Rosie Jones	73-68-72-71=284
AUS Rachel Teske	69-70-74-71=284
T6	USA Kate Golden	72-70-68-75=285	+1	41,873
KOR Young Kim	70-73-72-70=285
	AUS Joanne Mills	68-73-75-69=285
WAL Becky Morgan	73-70-70-72=285
KOR Young-A Yang	73-74-69-69=285

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Playoff

The sudden-death playoff began on the par-4 18th hole, where Park missed the green, chipped from the heavy rough to 12 ft but failed to save par. Sörenstam had a 20 ft for birdie, then tapped in for par to win.

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	SWE Annika Sörenstam	4	E	240,000
2	KOR Grace Park	5	+1	147,934

Sudden-death playoff played on hole 18.

References

Bamberger, Michael. (June 16, 2003). "Sunday best".
(June 9, 2003). "Pressure pays for Sorenstam". Toledo Blade.
Ferguson, Doug. (May 24, 2003). "'It was worth every step'". Spokesman-Review.
(June 9, 2003). "McDonald's LPGA Championship". Spokesman-Review.
"Wegmans LPGA Championship: 2003 results". LPGA.

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