DURHAM, N.C. – Duke University women’s golf two-time All-America Brittany Lang became the first Blue Devil to win a major championship as she won the 2016 U.S. Women’s Open in a playoff at CordeValle in San Martin, Calif., Sunday afternoon.
Lang, who had finished runner-up in 2005 as an amateur, won a three-hole aggregate playoff against Anna Nordqvist to win the championship.
Both Lang and Nordqvist netted pars on the first playoff hole, which was No. 16. On the par four 17th, each golfer registered a par, but after looking at Fox Sports television video, the United States Golf Association (USGA) ruled that Nordqvist grounded her club in the fairway bunker and was assessed a two-stroke penalty.