Co-leader at Mexico Riviera Maya Open Brianna Do needs to win to get in U.S. Women's Open

USA Today

23-05-2025

Co-leader at Mexico Riviera Maya Open Brianna Do needs to win to get in U.S. Women's Open
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — The 2025 U.S. Women's Open has 156 available spots and 155 of them are claimed. The winner of this week's LPGA stop, the 2025 Mexico Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba, if she's not already in the feld, will get that last spot.
If that last spot goes to American Brianna Do, well, her timing couldn't be any better. She's making her first LPGA start of the year and a win this week will get her in.
Do joined a crowded leaderboard late Thursday in Mexico after posting 4-under 68 in the afternoon wave. That put her in a tie for the overnight lead with Chisato Iwai, Jenny Shin and Bianca Pagdanganan, who all played in the morning.
Do started her round birdie-par-par-birdie before making an eagle on the par-5 fifth hole.
"I hit a good drive kind of down the left side. I kind of had a perfect number for a 5-wood. I think it landed just on the front, rolled all the way up to about seven feet and I made the putt," she said. "Pretty stress-free eagle."
Do, 35, played collegiately at UCLA and in 2011 won the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links. She joined the LPGA in 2013. Her best pro season has been 2018 when she made 16 cuts in 22 events. She's played in the U.S. Open three times, once as an amateur in 2012, again in 2014 and then most recently in 2018. She's missed the cut all three times.
There's a long way to go in this week on the Yucatan Peninsula, but if she keeps it up, she might just get that last coveted spot on the tee sheet at Erin Hills.
"It was pretty cool getting into this event. I had never really played here in Cancun area. I've played as a junior golfer in Guadalajara, and that was a lot of fun," she said. "I don't know, I kind of came in wanting to capitalize on the opportunity and doing the best that I can and so I put up a good number today. See how the next three days goes."