Morgan Pressel and the U.S. Women's Open have a long history. In 2001, she qualified for the USGA's most prestigious women's event as a 12-year-old, at that time becoming the youngest to ever do so. She did it again as an amateur in 2003 and 2005, which turned out to be the last time she went through qualifying to earn a spot in the championship. In the years in between, she either was exempt from qualifying or didn't qualify—that was the case when she failed to earn a spot from 2018 Sectional Qualifying.