U.S. Women's Open 2020: The Jutanugarn sisters came close to topping this sibling record

U.S. Women's Open 2020: The Jutanugarn sisters came close to topping this sibling record

Moriya Jutanugarn of Thailand on the 17th tee during the final round of the 75th U.S. Women's Open Championship. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)

Near the top of the leader board at the U.S. Women’s Open there was a last name repeated twice: Jutanugarn. Sisters Moriya and Ariya, who won the 2018 U.S. Women’s Open, were both in contention on Monday at Champions Golf Club in Houston. Moriya finished T-6 at two over, five shots back of eventual winner A Lim Kim. Ariya finished one back of her older sister, coming in T-9.

One would think that a pair of top 10s would be among the best tandem results for siblings in the history of the biggest major in women’s golf. And it was. But it wasn’t the best.

Remarkably, T-6 and T-9 wasn’t good enough to outperform a different pair of sisters in the U.S. Women’s Open. The best showing belongs to Marlene and Alice Bauer (Marlene playing under her married name, Hagge), who both finished tied for sixth in the 1957 U.S. Women’s Open, played on Winged Foot’s East Course.

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