Na Yeon Choi

This is a Korean name; the family name is Choi.

Na Yeon Choi 최나연
Choi at the 2010 Women's British Open
Personal information
Born	28 October 1987 (1987-10-28) (age 24) Seoul, South Korea
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Nationality	South Korea
Career
Turned professional	2004
Current tour(s)	LPGA (joined 2008)
Former tour(s)	KLPGA (joined 2004)
Professional wins	10
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour	5
LPGA of Korea Tour	7
Best results in LPGA Major Championships
Kraft Nabisco C'ship	T6: 2008
LPGA Championship	8th: 2009
U.S. Women's Open	T2: 2010
Women's British Open	T7: 2011
Achievements and awards
LPGA Vare Trophy	2010
LPGA Tour Money Winner	2010

Na Yeon Choi
Hangul	최나연
Hanja	崔蘿蓮
Revised Romanization	Choe Na Yeon
McCune–Reischauer	Choi Na Yŏn

Na Yeon Choi (Korean: 최나연, born 28 October 1987) is a South Korean female professional golfer playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.

Amateur career

At age 17 in 2004, Choi won the ADT CAPS Invitational on the LPGA of Korea Tour (KLPGA), beating future Hall-of-Famer Se Ri Pak by four strokes. Choi turned professional shortly thereafter, in November 2004. She won once each year on the KLPGA Tour in 2004 through 2007.

Professional career

In 2007, Choi played in the Hana Bank-KOLON Championship, an event co-sponsored by the LPGA and KLPGA Tours, and finished eighth. She attended LPGA Qualifying Tournament in the fall of 2007, but finished two shots shy of earning a fully exempt Tour card for the 2008 season. Her non-exempt card meant she was not automatically eligible for every event, yet her high conditional status and consistent good play put her in nearly every tournament. She won over $1 million and finished 11th on the 2008 money list with nine top-10 finishes in 27 events played. She finished second in the LPGA Rookie of the Year race, just behind winner Yani Tseng.^[1]

In 2009, Choi won twice on the LPGA Tour. In October she won the 20-player Samsung World Championship. Two weeks later she won the Hana Bank-KOLON Championship, an event co-sanctioned with the KLPGA.^[2] Her third LPGA Tour win came in July 2010 at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic at which she beat three other players on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.^[3] In 2010, Choi was both the LPGA Tour money leader and the leading scorer (Vare Trophy).

Professional wins (10)

LPGA Tour (5)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	20 Sep 2009	Samsung World Championship	71–67–63–71=272	-16	1 stroke	Ai Miyazato
2	1 Nov 2009	Hana Bank-KOLON Championship	68–71–67=206	-10	1 stroke	Yani Tseng Maria Hjorth
3	4 Jul 2010	Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic	64–67–68–71=270	-14	Playoff	In-Kyung Kim Christina Kim Song-Hee Kim
4	31 Oct 2010	LPGA Hana Bank Championship	69–68–69=206	-10	2 strokes	Vicky Hurst
5	16 Oct 2011	Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia	66-68-67-68=269	-15	1 stroke	Yani Tseng

KLPGA Tour (7)

• 2004 (1) ADT CAPS Invitational
• 2005 (1) Lake Side Ladies Open
• 2006 (1) KB Star Tour in Hampyung
• 2007 (1) Shinsegye Cup KLPGA Championship
• 2009 (1) Hana Bank-KOLON Championship (co-sanctioned with LPGA)
• 2010 (1) LPGA Hana Bank Championship (co-sanctioned with LPGA)
• 2011 (1) Hanwha Finance Network Classic

Results in LPGA majors

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Kraft Nabisco Championship	DNP	T6	T40	T27	T47
LPGA Championship	DNP	T18	8	CUT	T43
U.S. Women's Open	CUT	T19	T9	T2	CUT
Women's British Open	DNP	T21	T8	T3	T7

DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" tied
Green background for a win. Yellow background for a top-10 finish.

LPGA Tour career summary

Year	Tournaments played	Cuts made	Wins	2nds	3rds	Top 10s	Best finish	Earnings ($)	Money list rank	Scoring average	Scoring rank
2005	2	1	0	0	0	0	T14	18,136	n/a	73.80	n/a
2006	2	2	0	0	0	0	T11	29,113	n/a	72.17	n/a
2007	3	1	0	0	0	11	T8	27,899	n/a	75.00	n/a
2008	27	27	0	2	1	9	T2	1,095,759	11	71.10	8
2009	26	26	2	0	3	11	1	1,341,078	6	70.51	7
2010	23	22	2	4	2	15	1	1,871,166	1	69.87	1
2011	20	19	1	2	3	11	1	1,301,312	4	70.54	2

• official as of 14 November 2011 ^[4]

References

1. ^ Iseekgolf.com, Ochoa clinches third Rolex award 24 November 2008. Retrieved 7 July 2010
2. ^ The Times of India, Choi Na-Yeon wins Hana Bank Kolon Championship 1 November 2009. Retrieved 7 July 2010
3. ^ "Choi loses lead, then wins Farr in playoff". Golf Channel. Associated Press. 4 July 2010. http://www.thegolfchannel.com/tour-insider/choi-loses-lead-wins-farr-playoff-38015/. Retrieved 2 November 2010. 
4. ^ "2011 Player Performance Record". LPGA. http://www.lpga.com/Greensheet.aspx?pid=13712&year=2011. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 

External links

• Na Yeon Choi at the LPGA Tour official site
• Profile on Seoul Sisters site

Persondata
Name	Choi, Na Yeon
Alternative names
Short description	Professional golfer
Date of birth	28 October 1987
Place of birth	Seoul, South Korea
Date of death
Place of death