Jenny Bae (golfer)
| Jenny Bae | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Born | August 25, 2001 Suwanee, Georgia, U.S. | ||
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (160 cm) | ||
| Sporting nationality |  United States | ||
| Career | |||
| College | University of Georgia | ||
| Turned professional | 2023 | ||
| Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2025) | ||
| Former tour(s) | Epson Tour (joined 2023) | ||
| Professional wins | 3 | ||
| Number of wins by tour | |||
| Epson Tour | 3 | ||
| Achievements and awards | |||
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Jenny Bae (born August 25, 2001) is an American professional golfer and LPGA Tour player.[1]
Amateur career
[edit]Bae was born in Suwanee, Georgia. She won the 2018 Georgia Junior Championship in record-setting fashion, shooting a 9-under 207 to win by 10 strokes. She was named the 2018 Georgia Player of the Year as a junior, after earning medalist honors at the state championships representing Collins Hill High School.[2]
Bae played her college golf at the University of Georgia from January 2019 to 2023. In her final season she was named first-team All-American and was ranked ranked 5th by GolfStat and Golfweek. She received the Juli Inkster Award as the top female collegiate golfer, and was a finalist for the Annika Award, the WGCA Ping National Player of the Year, and the Honda Sports Award.[2]
In 2023, she lost a playoff to Rose Zhang at the Augusta National Women's Amateur.[3]
Professional career
[edit]Bae turned professional after graduating in 2023 and joined the Epson Tour, where she won two events back-to-back in her second and third starts.[4] She made her LPGA debut at the 2023 Portland Classic.[5]
In 2024, she won her third title at the Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout, and finished 7th on the Race for the Card at the end of the season, to gain a fully exempt card on the LPGA Tour for the 2025 season.[6]
Amateur wins
[edit]- 2018 Georgia Junior Championship
- 2020 Georgia Women's Match Play Championship
- 2021 NCAA Columbus Regional, Georgia Women's Amateur Championship
- 2022 Illini Women's Invitational
- 2023 NCAA Athens Regional
Source:[7]
Professional wins (3)
[edit]Epson Tour wins (3)
[edit]| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | Winner's share ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jul 16, 2023 | Hartford HealthCare Women's Championship | 69-66-70=205 | −11 | Playoff |  Ssu-Chia Cheng Kang Min-ji
|
30,000 |
| 2 | Jul 23, 2023 | Twin Bridges Championship | 65-69-73=207 | −6 | Playoff |  Jessica Porvasnik
|
30,000 |
| 3 | Sep 22, 2024 | Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout | 66-70-73=209 | −7 | 1 stroke | Therese Warner Lauren Stephenson Hailee Cooper
|
50,625 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Jenny Bae – Bio". Epson Tour. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
- ^ a b "Jenny Bae – Bio" (PDF). University of Georgia Athletics. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
- ^ "Georgia's Jenny Bae the runner-up at Augusta National Women's Amateur". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. April 1, 2023. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
- ^ Bohannan, Larry (March 1, 2024). "What's it like getting mentored by an LPGA Hall of Famer? Jenny Bae found out on a recent trip". Golfweek. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
- ^ Agrawal, Meeth (September 1, 2023). "LPGA debut at Portland Classic". Sportskeeda. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
- ^ "Meet the 2024 Epson Tour Graduates". LPGA Tour. October 6, 2024. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
- ^ "Jenny Bae". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
External links
[edit]- Jenny Bae at the LPGA Tour official site
- Jenny Bae at the Women's World Golf Rankings official site