Jang Jeong
| Jeong Jang 장정 |
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.jpg) Jang at the 2007 LPGA Championship |
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| Personal information | |
| Nickname | JJ |
| Born | 11 June 1980 Daejeon, South Korea |
| Height | 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) |
| Nationality |  South Korea |
| Residence | Orlando, Florida, U.S. |
| Career | |
| College | Joongbu University (2003) |
| Turned professional | 2000 |
| Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2000) LPGA of Korea Tour |
| Professional wins | 3 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| LPGA Tour | 2 |
| LPGA of Japan Tour | 1 |
| Best results in LPGA Major Championships (Wins: 1) |
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| Kraft Nabisco C'ship | T18: 2001 |
| LPGA Championship | T11: 2003 |
| U.S. Women's Open | T6: 2003 |
| Women's British Open | Won: 2005 |
| Korean name | |
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| Hangul | 장정 |
| Hanja | 張晶 |
| Revised Romanization | Jang Jeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chang Chǒng |
Jeong Jang (Korean: 장정, born 11 June 1980) is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She is also a member of the LPGA of Korea Tour.
Jang was born in Daejeon, South Korea. She started playing golf at the age of thirteen. As a teenager she won the 1997 Korea Women's Open and the 1998 Korea Women's Amateur. She attended Joongbu University. After qualifying for the LPGA Tour at her first attempt, Jang had a successful rookie season in 2000 including a second place finish. She reached twelfth on the money list in 2004 and in that year had nine finishes in the top ten. In July 2005 she won for the first time, claiming the Women's British Open, which is one of the women's majors, by four shots. She claimed her second LPGA win in 2006 at the Wegmans LPGA.
Contents |
[edit] Professional wins (3)
[edit] LPGA Tour (2)
LPGA major is shown in bold.
[edit] LPGA of Japan Tour (1)
- 2006 (1) Japan Women's Open
[edit] Major championships
[edit] Wins (1)
| Year | Championship | Winning Score | Margin | Runner(s)-up |
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| 2005 | Weetabix Women's British Open | −16 (68–66–69–69=272) | 4 strokes |  Sophie Gustafson |
[edit] Results timeline
| Tournament | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
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| Kraft Nabisco Championship | DNP | DNP | T18 | T45 | T21 | 23 | T27 | T19 | T54 | T31 | DNP | T48 |
| LPGA Championship | DNP | CUT | CUT | T57 | T11 | T23 | T13 | T58 | T25 | T18 | DNP | T25 |
| U.S. Women's Open | CUT | DNP | DNP | T22 | T6 | T7 | T50 | T28 | T8 | T19 | CUT | T19 |
| Women's British Open ^ | DNP | CUT | CUT | T4 | T14 | T23 | 1 | T26 | CUT | WD | T25 | T21 |
^ 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
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied
Green background for a win. Yellow background for a top-10 finish.
[edit] External links
- Jang Jeong at the LPGA Tour official site
- Seoul Sisters – fansite profile
- (Korean) KLPGA profile
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