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Park Hee-young
Park at the 2013 Women's British Open
Personal information
NicknameRocket
Born (1987-05-24) 24 May 1987 (age 37)
South Korea
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Sporting nationality South Korea
Career
Turned professional2004
Current tour(s)LPGA (joined 2008)
KLPGA (joined 2005)
Professional wins9
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour2
LPGA of Korea Tour6
Ladies Asian Golf Tour1
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipT7: 2013
Women's PGA C'shipT4: 2016
U.S. Women's OpenT9: 2009
Women's British OpenT2: 2013
Evian ChampionshipT19: 2013
Achievements and awards
KLPGA Rookie of the Year2005
Park Hee-young
Hangul
박희영
Revised RomanizationBak Hui-yeong
McCune–ReischauerPak Hŭi-yŏng

Park Hee-young (Korean: 박희영, born 24 May 1987) is a South Korean professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.

Early golf career

As an amateur, Park was a three time member of the South Korean National team. Park was twice runner-up in the South Korea Amateur Open.

2005 was Park's first full year as a professional golfer. She won three times on the LPGA of Korea Tour which earned her rookie of the year honors. Park won another two KLPGA tournaments in 2006.

LPGA Tour career

Park earned her tour card at the 2007 LPGA qualifying school. She played in 28 LPGA events in 2008 and made the cut in 22 of them. Her best finish was a T4 and she earned $474,744 for the year, 35th on the tour's money list.

At the second LPGA event of 2009, Honda LPGA Thailand, Park shot an opening round 79 in the tournament. Shortly after her round was completed, Park had to go to a hospital.[1] She was treated and released. Park completed the tournament, shooting rounds of 64, 69, 65, which enabled her to finish in solo second place three shots behind Lorena Ochoa.[2] Later in 2009, Park finished second at the Mizuno Classic.

On 20 November 2011, Park won her first LPGA Tour event, the CME Group Titleholders. She finished two shots ahead of Paula Creamer and Sandra Gal.[3]

Her second victory came in July 2013 at the Manulife Financial LPGA Classic in Canada. Tied with Angela Stanford at 258 (–26) after 72 holes, the two went to a sudden-death playoff on the par-5 18th hole. Park birdied the hole three times in regulation (par on Friday) and three times in the playoff to win.[4]

Personal life

As of 2011, Park's sister Choo Young, is a player on the Korean LPGA Tour. Her sister will begin her rookie year on the LPGA Tour in 2015, after finishing in a tie for 11th place at Stage III of LPGA Q School in Daytona Beach, Florida.


Professional wins (9)

LPGA Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Winner's
share ($)
1 20 Nov 2011 CME Group Titleholders 71-69-69-70=279 −9 2 strokes United States Paula Creamer
Germany Sandra Gal 		500,000
2 14 Jul 2013 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic 65-67-61-65=258 −26 Playoff United States Angela Stanford 195,000

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2013 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic United States Angela Stanford Won with birdie on third extra hole

LPGA of Korea Tour wins (6)

  • 2004 Hite Cup (as an amateur)[5]
  • 2005 PAVV Invitational,[6] two other wins[5]
  • 2006 Phoenix Park Classic, Lake Hills Classic[6]

Ladies Asian Golf Tour wins (1)

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order before 2019.

Tournament 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
ANA Inspiration T30 T38 T53 T15 T70 T26 T7 T26 CUT T45 CUT T40 T52
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT T9 T41 T45 CUT CUT T15 CUT T65 CUT
Women's PGA Championship CUT CUT CUT T14 14 T51 CUT CUT T4 CUT T49 CUT
The Evian Championship ^ T19 T20 CUT T36 CUT
Women's British Open T14 T11 T55 T43 T33 T2 67 CUT CUT T52

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" = tied

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
ANA Inspiration 0 0 0 0 1 2 13 11
U.S. Women's Open 0 0 0 0 1 2 11 5
Women's PGA Championship 0 0 0 1 1 3 12 5
The Evian Championship 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 3
Women's British Open 0 1 0 1 1 3 10 8
Totals 0 1 0 2 4 12 51 32
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 8 (2010 U.S. Open – 2012 LPGA)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (four times)

LPGA Tour career summary

Year Tournaments
played		 Cuts
made		 Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish		 Earnings
($)		 Money
list rank		 Scoring
average		 Scoring
rank
2004 1 1 0 0 0 0 T16 n/a 70.0
2005 1 1 0 0 0 1 T4 63,544 n/a 71.67
2006 1 1 0 0 0 0 T25 12,202 n/a 72.67
2007 5 3 0 0 0 0 T12 53,246 n/a 74.26
2008 28 22 0 0 0 4 4 474,744 35 71.78 27
2009 25 19 0 2 0 6 2 666,305 20 71.94 35
2010 22 17 0 0 0 6 T4 327,431 34 71.69 25
2011 21 19 1 0 1 3 1 851,781 12 72.42 37
2012 25 21 0 0 0 5 5 427,717 34 71.71 30
2013 26 24 1 1 1 5 1 848,676 10 71.07 19
2014 29 27 0 0 0 2 T7 447,658 40 71.39 28
2015 28 18 0 1 0 3 T2 347,523 52 71.99 56
2016 26 20 0 0 0 4 T4 527,393 34 71.25 35
2017 22 9 0 0 1 1 3 131,235 91 72.15 102
2018 20 15 0 0 0 0 T11 197,679 80 71.70 65
  • official through 2018 season[7]

References

  1. ^ Hee Young Park's Thailand Odyssey
  2. ^ Ochoa takes three-stroke victory in Thailand
  3. ^ Hee Young Park wins LPGA finale
  4. ^ "Hee Young Park wins LPGA Manulife". ESPN. Associated Press. 14 July 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  5. ^ a b LPGA Tour profile
  6. ^ a b Seoul Sisters profile
  7. ^ "Hee Young Park stats". LPGA. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
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