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The '''2016 KPMG Women's PGA Championship''' was the 62nd [[Women's PGA Championship]], played June 9–12 at [[Sahalee Country Club]] in [[Sammamish, Washington]], a suburb east of [[Seattle]].<ref name=thrill>{{cite web |url=http://www.pga.com/news/golf-buzz/sahalee-country-club-president-thrilled-host-16-kpmg-womens-pga-championship |publisher=PGA of America |title= Sahalee Country Club president 'thrilled' to host '16 KPMG Women's PGA Championship |last=Auclair |first=T.J. |date=June 13, 2015 |access-date=June 15, 2015}}</ref><ref name=scctoh>{{cite magazine |url=https://golfweek.com/news/2015/jun/13/lpga-tour-golf-kpmg-womens-pga-2016-sahalee-cc-was/ |magazine=Golfweek |last=Nichols |first=Beth Ann |title=Sahalee C.C. to host 2016 KPMG Women's PGA Championship |date=June 13, 2015 |access-date=June 15, 2015}}</ref> [[Brooke Henderson]], 18, won her first [[Women's major golf championships|major]] title with a birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with top-ranked [[Lydia Ko]]. It was the second win in a major by a [[Canada|Canadian]] and the first [[1968 LPGA Championship|in 48 years]]. Henderson and Ko both had bogey-free final rounds with scores of 65 (−6) and 67 (−4), respectively.<ref>{{cite news |url=
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▲The '''2016 KPMG Women's PGA Championship''' was the 62nd [[Women's PGA Championship]], played June 9–12 at [[Sahalee Country Club]] in [[Sammamish, Washington]], a suburb east of [[Seattle]].<ref name=thrill>{{cite web |url=http://www.pga.com/news/golf-buzz/sahalee-country-club-president-thrilled-host-16-kpmg-womens-pga-championship |publisher=PGA of America |title= Sahalee Country Club president 'thrilled' to host '16 KPMG Women's PGA Championship |last=Auclair |first=T.J. |date=June 13, 2015 |access-date=June 15, 2015}}</ref><ref name=scctoh>{{cite magazine |url=https://golfweek.com/news/2015/jun/13/lpga-tour-golf-kpmg-womens-pga-2016-sahalee-cc-was/ |magazine=Golfweek |last=Nichols |first=Beth Ann |title=Sahalee C.C. to host 2016 KPMG Women's PGA Championship |date=June 13, 2015 |access-date=June 15, 2015}}</ref> [[Brooke Henderson]], 18, won her first [[Women's major golf championships|major]] title with a birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with top-ranked [[Lydia Ko]]. It was the second win in a major by a [[Canada|Canadian]] and the first [[1968 LPGA Championship|in 48 years]]. Henderson and Ko both had bogey-free final rounds with scores of 65 (−6) and 67 (−4), respectively.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/16160323/brooke-henderson-wins-kpmg-women-pga-championship-playoff-first-major-title |title=Brooke Henderson beats Lydia Ko in playoff to capture first major title |work=ESPN |agency=Associated Press |date=June 12, 2016}}</ref>
Known as the [[LPGA Championship]] through [[2014 LPGA Championship|2014]], it was the second of five [[Women's major golf championships|major championships]] on the [[LPGA Tour]] during the [[2016 LPGA Tour|2016]] season. This was the second year that the championship was organized by the [[PGA of America]].<ref name=thrill/>
Sahalee hosted the [[PGA Championship]] in [[1998 PGA Championship|1998]], the first of three [[Men's major golf championships|majors]] won by [[Vijay Singh]]. It was scheduled to host again in [[2010 PGA Championship|2010]], but the PGA of America reversed its decision and moved it to [[Whistling Straits]] in [[Wisconsin]].<ref>{{cite news |url=
The Seattle area is an annual stop on the [[PGA Tour Champions]] with the [[Boeing Classic]] at [[TPC Snoqualmie Ridge]] in late August. The area formerly hosted the [[Safeco Classic]], an LPGA Tour event from [[1982 LPGA Tour|1982]] through [[1999 LPGA Tour|1999]], held in September at Meridian Valley Country Club in [[Kent, Washington|Kent]], southeast of Seattle.
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