Se Ri Pak
| Se Ri Pak 박세리 |
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.jpg) Pak at the 2009 LPGA Championship |
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Pak Se Ri 박세리 |
| Born | 28 September 1977 Daejeon, Korea |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Nationality |  South Korea |
| Residence | Orlando, Florida, U.S. |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 1996 |
| Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 1998) |
| Former tour(s) | KLPGA (joined 1996) |
| Professional wins | 31 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| LPGA Tour | 25 |
| LPGA of Korea Tour | 6 |
| Best results in LPGA Major Championships (Wins: 5) |
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| Kraft Nabisco C'ship | T9: 2002 |
| LPGA Championship | Won: 1998, 2002, 2006 |
| U.S. Women's Open | Won: 1998 |
| du Maurier Classic | T7: 2000 |
| Women's British Open | Won: 2001 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| World Golf Hall of Fame | 2007 (member page) |
| LPGA Rookie of the Year | 1998 |
| GWAA Female Player of the Year |
1998 |
| LPGA Vare Trophy | 2003 |
| LPGA Heather Farr Award | 2006 |
| Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year |
1998 |
| Se Ri Pak | |
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| Hangul | 박세리 |
| Hanja | 朴세리 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Se-ri |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Seri |
Pak Se Ri (Korean: 박세리, also 朴世莉; born 28 September 1977) is a South Korean professional golfer, playing on the LPGA Tour. She was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in November 2007.
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[edit] Career overview
Pak turned professional in 1996, a year before she moved to the United States as a 20-year-old.[1] In 1996 and 1997, she won six tournaments on the LPGA of Korea Tour. Pak joined the LPGA Tour full-time for the year 1998, crowning her rookie season with victories in two majors: the McDonald's LPGA Championship and U.S. Women's Open. At just 20 years of age, she became the youngest-ever winner of U.S. Women's Open. About.com writes that "Pak won a 20-hole playoff for that victory, making that tournament - at 92 holes in length - the longest tournament ever in women's professional golf."[2] Four days after the U.S. Women's Open win, Pak shot a then-LPGA record 61 during the second round of the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic.[3] She won the Rolex Rookie of the Year award for that season.
Since 1998, she has gone on to win 21 more events on the Tour, including three more majors. In June 2007, at age 29, she qualified for the World Golf Hall of Fame, surpassing Karrie Webb as the youngest living entrant ever.[4] (Tom Morris, Jr., who died in 1875 at the age of 24, had been elected in 1975.)
Pak has also competed in a professional men's event, at the 2003 SBS Super Tournament on the Korean Tour. The Korean Tour is a feeder tour for the Asian Tour and does not offer world ranking points. She finished 10th in the event, according to the World Golf Hall of Fame "becoming the first woman to make the cut in a professional men's tournament since Babe Zaharias did so in 1945."[5]
At the 2005 McDonald's LPGA Championship, she missed the cut for the first time in 29 majors. In an interview quoted on the PGA Tour's website, she commented that she was searching for a balance between her golf and her personal life: "I've been a little bit unhappy about everything, my game, big game. I'm not really enjoying it at all, and I'm not doing anything with my ability. I know what I needed, a much better balance. I'm always putting a lot of pressure on myself". Eventually, she was found to have a finger injury. In 2006, she rediscovered her best form by winning the McDonald's LPGA Championship for the third time to claim her fifth major title overall.
In 2007, she won the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic for the fifth time, making her the fourth player in LPGA history to win the same tournament five or more times (Annika Sörenstam accomplished this feat at two tournaments).[6]
Perhaps the greatest tribute to her career to date came in a column by Golf World writer Eric Adelson in 2008, who called Pak "a pioneer... who changed the face of golf even more than Tiger Woods."[7] When Pak came to the LPGA in 1998, she was the only Korean player. Ten years later, she was one of 45 Koreans on tour,[8] and the single largest source of revenue for the LPGA was the sale of TV rights in South Korea.[9]
[edit] Professional wins (31)
[edit] LPGA Tour (25)
LPGA Tour playoff record (6-0)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
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| 1 | 1998 | U.S. Women's Open |  Jenny Chuasiriporn |
Won with birdie on second extra hole after 18-hole playoff (Chuasiriporn:73, Pak:73) |
| 2 | 1999 | Jamie Farr Kroger Classic | Kelli Kuehne,  Carin Koch,  Mardi Lunn Sherri Steinhauer, Karrie Webb |
Won with birdie on first extra hole |
| 3 | 1999 | PageNet Championship |  Laura Davies, Karrie Webb |
Won with birdie on first extra hole |
| 3 | 2003 | Chick-fil-A Charity Championship | Shani Waugh |
Won with par on fourth extra hole |
| 4 | 2006 | McDonald's LPGA Championship | Karrie Webb |
Won with birdie on first extra hole |
| 5 | 2010 | Wegmans LPGA | Brittany Lincicome Suzann Pettersen |
Won with birdie on third extra hole Pettersen eliminated with par on second hole |
Major championships are shown in bold.
[edit] Korean LPGA (6)
- 1996 (4) Dong-Il Renown Ladies Classic, Fila Women's Open, SBS Women's Professional Golf Challenge, Seoul Women's Open
- 1997 (2) Cheil Industries Rose Women's Open, Seoul Women's Open
[edit] Major championships
[edit] Wins (5)
| Year | Championship | Winning Score | Margin | Runner(s)-up |
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| 1998 | McDonald's LPGA Championship | -11 (65-68-72-68=273) | 3 strokes | Donna Andrews, Lisa Hackney |
| 1998 | U.S. Women's Open | +6 (69-70-75-76=290) | Playoff 1 | Jenny Chuasiriporn |
| 2001 | Weetabix Women's British Open | -11 (71-70-70-66=277) | 2 strokes | Mi Hyun Kim |
| 2002 | McDonald's LPGA Championship | -5 (71-70-68-70=279) | 3 strokes | Beth Daniel |
| 2006 | McDonald's LPGA Championship | -8 (71-69-71-69=280) | Playoff 2 | Karrie Webb |
1 Defeated Chuasiriporn on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff, after an 18-hole playoff round
2 Defeated Webb on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff
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[edit] Results timeline
| Tournament | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
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| Kraft Nabisco Championship | DNP | DNP | T13 | T15 |
| LPGA Championship | DNP | 1 | T6 | T3 |
| U.S. Women's Open | T21 | 1 | T14 | T15 |
| du Maurier Classic | DNP | T41 | T13 | T7 |
| Tournament | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
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| Kraft Nabisco Championship | T11 | T9 | T15 | T16 | T27 | T45 | T10 | T10 | T40 |
| LPGA Championship | T39 | 1 | T46 | T17 | CUT | 1 | T33 | T46 | T65 |
| U.S. Women's Open | 2 | 5 | 50 | T32 | T45 | T3 | T4 | CUT | CUT |
| Women's British Open ^ | 1 | T11 | 2 | T21 | WD | WD | T5 | CUT | T20 |
| Tournament | 2010 | 2011 |
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| Kraft Nabisco Championship | T15 | T10 |
| LPGA Championship | CUT | T34 |
| U.S. Women's Open | CUT | T45 |
| Women's British Open | DNP | T14 |
^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 for place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.
[edit] LPGA Tour record
| Year | Events played |
Cuts made |
Wins | 2nds | 3rds | Top tens |
Best finish |
Earnings ($) |
Rank | Scoring average |
Scoring rank |
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| 1998 | 27 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 872,170 | 2 | 71.41 | |
| 1999 | 27 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 956,926 | 3 | 70.77 | |
| 2000 | 23 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 550,376 | 12 | 72.49 | |
| 2001 | 21 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1,623,009 | 2 | 69.69 | 2 |
| 2002 | 24 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 1 | 1,722,281 | 2 | 69.85 | 2 |
| 2003 | 26 | 25 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 1,611,928 | 2 | 70.03 | 1 |
| 2004 | 19 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 682,669 | 11 | 71.34 | 27 |
| 2005 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T27 | 62,628 | 102 | 74.21 | 116 |
| 2006 | 23 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 884,961 | 13 | 71.65 | 23 |
| 2007 | 23 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 820,129 | 16 | 71.74 | 14 |
| 2008 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 366,143 | 52 | 72.59 | 66 |
| 2009 | 24 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 447,683 | 30 | 71.98 | 37 |
| 2010 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 368,839 | 32 | 72.45 | 49 |
| 2011 | 20 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 415,447 | 27 | 71.97 | 26 |
- official as of 20 November 2011 [10]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ TalkAsia, CNN, 2007
- ^ About.com - Se Ri Pak
- ^ "Pak Sets LPGA Record With 61 U.S. Open Champion Makes 10 Birdies". Seattle Post-Intelliencer. 11 July 1998. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-64591067.html. Retrieved 2010-08-02.
- ^ Pak qualifies for LPGA Tour and World Golf Halls of Fame. LPGA.com. 7 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-15
- ^ World Golf Hall of Fame Profile: Se Ri Pak
- ^ "All-Time Records" (PDF). LPGA. http://www.lpga.com/content/Alltimerecords.pdf. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ Adelson, Eric (5 September 2008). "Bivens' missteps starting to add up". ESPN.com. http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/columns/story?columnist=adelson_eric&id=3571125. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
- ^ "Information: 2008 International Players" (PDF). LPGA. http://www.lpga.com/content/2008LPGAInternationalPlayers.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
- ^ Sirak, Ron (5 September 2008). "LPGA Tour should have seen the fallout coming from English policy". ESPN.com. http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/columns/story?columnist=sirak_ron&id=3571122&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab7pos2. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
- ^ "2011 Player Performance Record". LPGA. http://www.lpga.com/greensheet.aspx?pid=157&year=2011. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
[edit] External links
- Se Ri Pak at the LPGA Tour official site
- Profile at about.com
- World Golf Hall of Fame profile
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