Christina Kim

Christina Kim
Christina Kim

Kim at the 2009 LPGA Championship
Personal information
Nickname Kookie, CK, The CK[citation needed]
Born March 15, 1984 (1984-03-15) (age 27)
San Jose, California, U.S.
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Nationality  United States
Residence Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Career
College None
Turned professional 2002
Current tour(s) LPGA Tour (joined 2003)
LET (joined 2010)
Former tour(s) Futures Tour (joined 2002)
Professional wins 4
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour 2
Ladies European Tour 1
Futures Tour 1
Best results in LPGA Major Championships
Kraft Nabisco C'ship 7 : 2009
LPGA Championship T6: 2004
U.S. Women's Open T8: 2010
Women's British Open T3: 2009
Christina Kim
Hangul 김초롱
Hanja 金楚籠
Revised Romanization Gim Cho-rong
McCune–Reischauer Kim Ch'o'rong

Christina Kim (born March 15, 1984) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour and on the Ladies European Tour (LET). From San Jose, California, she is known for her animated style of play, flamboyant dress, and outgoing personaliity.

Not long after her 18th birthday, Kim turned pro. In 2002 she competed on the Futures Tour and won the Hewlett-Packard Garden State FUTURES Summer Classic in a playoff over future LPGA Tour golfer Lorena Ochoa.[1]

Kim won the 2004 Longs Drugs Challenge[2] and the 2005 Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions[3][4] and was a member of three U.S. Solheim Cup teams in 2005, 2009, and 2011. She was the youngest player to reach $1 million in earnings, which she achieved in 2004 at age 20. This record was broken the following year by Paula Creamer.

She joined the Ladies European Tour (LET) in 2010, competing in six events that year including two that were co-sanctioned with the LPGA. In 2011, she earned her first win on the LET at the Sicilian Italian Ladies Open.[5]

Kim's autobiography, Swinging from My Heels: Confessions of an LPGA Star, co-written with Alan Shipnuck was published in 2010.[6]

Contents

Professional wins (4)

LPGA Tour (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 Sep 26, 2004 Longs Drugs Challenge -18 (64-69-68-65=266) 1 stroke Australia Karrie Webb
2 Nov 13, 2005 The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions -15 (67-67-72-67=273) 1 stroke Australia Rachel Hetherington

LPGA Tour playoff record (0-1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 2010 Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic South Korea In-Kyung Kim, United States Na Yeon Choi
South Korea Song-Hee Kim
Choi won with birdie on second extra hole

Futures Tour (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 Aug 4, 2002 Hewlett-Packard Garden State FUTURES Summer Classic -14 (66-67-66=199) Playoff Mexico Lorena Ochoa

Ladies European Tour (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 Oct 9, 2011 Sicilian Ladies Italian Open -7 (70-69-70=209) 4 strokes Italy Giulia Sergas

Results in LPGA majors

Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Kraft Nabisco Championship DNP DNP T28 T8 T39 52 T24 CUT 7
LPGA Championship DNP DNP CUT T6 T33 T61 T56 CUT CUT
U.S. Women's Open T48 DNP T22 T37 CUT CUT CUT T53 T52
Women's British Open DNP DNP CUT T13 T28 T45 T58 T64 T3
Tournament 2010 2011
Kraft Nabisco Championship CUT CUT
LPGA Championship T25 CUT
U.S. Women's Open T8 CUT
Women's British Open T9 CUT

DNP = did not play
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

LPGA Tour career summary

Year Tournaments
played
Cuts
made
Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish
Earnings
($)
Money
list rank
Scoring
average
Scoring
rank
2001 1 1 0 0 0 0 T48 n/a 74.00
2003 28 18 0 0 0 2 T4 215,632 49 72.37
2004 31 25 1 1 0 6 1 636,290 15 71.22 T21
2005 30 27 1 0 1 6 1 621,149 19 71.66 21
2006 29 26 0 0 0 3 T5 355,656 35 72.24 52
2007 29 26 0 2 0 7 2 626,075 23 72.18 26
2008 30 26 0 1 0 9 T2 678,598 27 71.85 32
2009 24 17 0 0 1 4 T3 344,055 38 72.29 49
2010 24 19 0 1 0 2 T2 436,050 26 72.17 38
2011 21 14 0 0 0 0 T13 149,275 58 72.86 56
  • official through November 21, 2011 [7]

Solheim Cup record

Year Total
Matches
Total
W-L-H
Singles
W-L-H
Foursomes
W-L-H
Fourballs
W-L-H
Points
Won
Points
%
Career 10 6-2-2 3-0-0 2-1-1 1-1-1 7.0 70.0
2005 4 2-1-1 1-0-0 def L. Kreutz 5&4 1-0-1 halved w/ P. Hurst,
won w/ N. Gulbis 4&2
0-1-0 lost w/ P. Hurst 4&2 2.5 62.5
2009 4 3-1-0 1-0-0 def T. Elosegui 2 up 1-1-0 won w/ N. Gulbis 4&2,
lost w/N. Gulbis 5&4
1-0-0 won w/ M. Wie 5&4 3 75.0
2011 2 1-0-1 1-0-0 def M. Hjorth 4&2 0-0-1 halved w/ R. O'Toole 1.5 75.0

References

  1. ^ News Transcript, First-time winner tops the field at Knob Hill Golf Club 2002-08-07. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
  2. ^ UPI, Christina Kim gets first win on LPGA Tour 2004-09-26. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
  3. ^ Life magazine, Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions- Final Round 2005-11-13. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
  4. ^ ESPN, Kim posts second career title, wins by a stroke 2005-11-13. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
  5. ^ LET, 2011 Ladies Italian Open Leaderboard. October 9, 2011.
  6. ^ amazon.com - Swinging from My Heels: Confessions of an LPGA Star
  7. ^ "2011 Player Performance Record". LPGA. http://www.lpga.com/Greensheet.aspx?pid=484&year=2011. Retrieved 2011-11-21. 

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