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In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.
Lee Kyoung-hoon
Personal information
Born (1991-08-24) 24 August 1991 (age 33)
Seoul, South Korea
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb; 12.9 st)
Sporting nationality South Korea
Career
Turned professional2010
Current tour(s)PGA Tour
Former tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
OneAsia Tour
Web.com Tour
Professional wins5
Highest ranking33 (23 October 2022)[1]
(as of 27 October 2024)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour1
Japan Golf Tour2
Other2
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentCUT: 2022
PGA ChampionshipCUT: 2021
U.S. OpenCUT: 2014, 2019, 2021
The Open ChampionshipDNP
Medal record
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Guangzhou Men's team

Lee Kyoung-hoon (Korean: 이경훈; Hanja: 李京勲; born 24 August 1991), also known as K. H. Lee, is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2021 AT&T Byron Nelson.

Professional career

Lee turned professional in 2010 and joined the OneAsia Tour for 2011, earning his card through qualifying school. He finished 39th on the Order of Merit with his best finish being a tie for sixth. He joined the Japan Golf Tour in 2012 and recorded a runner-up finish in his second event of the year. He won the Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega Sammy Cup in July.[2]

Lee claimed his first victory on the OneAsia Tour in September 2015, with a four stroke victory at the Kolon Korea Open. In October 2015, Lee won for the third time in his career, and second time on the Japan Golf Tour when he secured victory at the Honma TourWorld Cup at Trophia Golf.[3]

Lee moved to the United States in 2016 to play the Web.com Tour, after finishing 8th in the Web.com Tour qualifying tournament. His best result was 4th at the WinCo Foods Portland Open. Two weeks later, he won the Kolon Korean Open, and in October he finished second at the Japan Open Golf Championship and Bridgestone Open. He finished only 78th on the Web.com Tour, and played again in the qualifying tournament, where he tied for 14th place.[4] He returned to the Web.com Tour in 2017 where his best finish was tied for third place in the Rex Hospital Open.[5] In 2018, he finished fifth in the Web.com Tour regular season rankings to earn a promotion to the PGA Tour.[6]

At the 2021 Waste Management Phoenix Open, Lee finished in a tie for second, one stroke behind winner, Brooks Koepka.[7] Three months later, Lee earned his first PGA Tour win at the 2021 AT&T Byron Nelson, with a score of 25-under-par, beating runner-up Sam Burns by three strokes.[8]

Professional wins (5)

PGA Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 16 May 2021 AT&T Byron Nelson −25 (65-65-67-66=263) 3 strokes United States Sam Burns

Japan Golf Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 8 Jul 2012 Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega Sammy Cup −19 (65-69-70-65=269) 2 strokes South Korea Kim Hyung-sung
2 11 Oct 2015 Honma TourWorld Cup at Trophia Golf −16 (71-65-65-67=268) 1 stroke Japan Tomohiro Kondo, Japan Ryuichi Oda,
Japan Taichi Teshima, China Wu Ashun

OneAsia Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 13 Sep 2015 Kolon Korea Open1 −13 (68-69-68-66=271) 4 strokes South Korea Kim Meen-whee
2 11 Sep 2016 Kolon Korea Open1 (2) −16 (65-67-68-68=268) 3 strokes South Korea Choi Jin-ho

1Co-sanctioned by the Korean Tour

Korean Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 13 Sep 2015 Kolon Korea Open1 −13 (68-69-68-66=271) 4 strokes South Korea Kim Meen-whee
2 11 Sep 2016 Kolon Korea Open1 (2) −16 (65-67-68-68=268) 3 strokes South Korea Choi Jin-ho

1Co-sanctioned by the OneAsia Tour

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open CUT
The Open Championship
PGA Championship
Tournament 2019 2020 2021 2022
Masters Tournament CUT
PGA Championship CUT
U.S. Open CUT CUT
The Open Championship NT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the halfway cut
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament 2021 2022
The Players Championship T41 T55

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament 2021
Championship
Match Play
Invitational T54
Champions NT1

1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Did not play

"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament

See also

References

  1. ^ "Week 43 2022 Ending 23 Oct 2022" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Rookie Kyoung-Hoon Lee wins on Japan Tour". Fox News. Sports Network. 8 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Honma TourWorld Cup at Trophia Golf 2015 – Leaderboard". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  4. ^ "2016 Web.com Tour Q-school leaderboard, results and prize money payouts". The Golf News Net. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  5. ^ "2017 Rex Hospital Open winner, final leaderboard, results, prize money payouts". The Golf News Net. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  6. ^ "Meet The 50 newest PGA Tour members". PGA Tour. September 23, 2018. Retrieved 2021-05-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Koepka wins Waste Management Phoenix Open for eighth tour title". PGA Tour. Associated Press. 7 February 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  8. ^ "K.H. Lee wins AT&T Byron Nelson for first PGA Tour victory; qualifies for PGA Championship". ESPN. Associated Press. May 16, 2021.
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