Grace Park (golfer)

Grace Park was born Park Ji-eun on March 6, 1979 in Seoul, South Korea, and is a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.

Amateur career

She moved to Hawaii at the age of 12, and then to Arizona. She received the 1996 Dial Award as top female high-school scholar-athlete in the United States. She attended Arizona State University and graduated from Ewha Womans University in 2003.

Park had an outstanding amateur career in the United States being Rolex Junior Player of the Year in 1994 and 1996, cite web
title = All-Time Rolex Junior Players of the Year
publisher = American Junior Golf Association
url = http://www.ajga.org/Rankings/playersoftheyear.asp
accessdate = 2007-04-04] winning most major amateur championships in 1998 including the United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship, and tying for eighth as an amateur in the 1999 U.S. Women's Open.

Professional career

Park turned professional in 1999 and decided to play on the Futures Tour instead of taking exemptions to LPGA tournaments. She won five of the ten tournaments she entered and became one of the first three golfers to gain automatic LPGA Tour exempt status by finishing top of the money list. cite web
title = Silver Anniversary Salute: FUTURES Tour Prepares For Next 25 Years
publisher = Duramed Futures Tour
author = Lisa D. Mickey
url = http://www.duramedfuturestour.com/News/SilverAnniversarySalute.html
accessdate = 2007-04-27] She was named Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year. cite web | title = Duramed FUTURES Tour Awards | publisher = Futures Tour | url = http://www.duramedfuturestour.com/FUTURESAwards.asp | accessdate = 2007-04-28]

She won at least one LPGA tournament in each season from 2000 to 2004, including her first major, the 2004 Kraft Nabisco Championship. 2005 and 2006 were difficult years for Park as she suffered from back and neck injuries.

The "Boston Globe" has described Park as "the striking beauty, the tall and proud walk, the dazzling smile" and she has attracted sponsorship from Nike and Rolex.

Professional wins (11)

Futures Tour (5)

*1999 (5) Betty Puskar FUTURES Golf Classic, YWCA Briarwood FUTURES Open, SmartSpikes FUTURES Classic, Carolina National FUTURES Classic, Greater Lima FUTURES Open

LPGA Tour (6)

*2000 (1) Kathy Ireland Greens.com LPGA Classic
*2001 (1) Office Depot Championship
*2002 (1) CISCO World Ladies Match Play Championship
*2003 (1) Michelob Light Open at Kingsmill
*2004 (2) Kraft Nabisco Championship, CJ Nine Bridges Classic

LPGA Majors are shown in bold.

Results in LPGA majors

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- bgcolor="#eeeeee"!align="left"|Tournament !! 2001 !! 2002 !! 2003 !! 2004 !! 2005 !! 2006 !! 2007 !! 2008
-
Kraft Nabisco Championship
align="center"|T28
align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T9
align="center"|CUT
align="center" style="background:#00ff00;"|1
align="center" style="background:yellow;"|5
align="center"|T35
align="center"|T69
align="center"|CUT

^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
WD = withdrewGreen background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.lpga.com/player_results.aspx?id=160 LPGA Tour biography page]
* [http://golf.about.com/od/golferswomen/p/grace_park.htm Grace Park bio]

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