Park in-bee

Park in-bee
Personnel
Nation:	South Korea
Career data
Professional since:	2006
Current tour:	LPGA tour
Tournament wins:	29
Major wins :	7 (2008, 2013, 2015, 2016)
Awards:	LPGA Vare Trophy (2012, 2015) LPGA Player of the Year (2013) GWAA Female Player of the Year (2013) Rolex Annika Major Award (2015)

Korean spelling
Hangeul	박인비
Hanja	朴 仁 妃
Revised Romanization	Bak Inbi
McCune- Reischauer	Pak Inbi
See also : Korean name

Park In-bee (born July 12, 1988 in Seoul ; also known as Inbee Park ) is a South Korean professional golfer .

Career

Park started golfing at the age of ten and moved to the United States two years later to focus more on golf. She won numerous junior titles there. In 2007 she became a professional player and a year later she won her first major tournament, the United States Women's Open Championship . Six other major titles followed by 2015, one more time at the United Stats Women's Open Championship, once at the Kraft Nabisco Championship , three times at the LPGA Championship and once at the Women's British Open . On April 15, 2013, she took the lead in the world rankings for the first time . It has been at the top for a total of 106 weeks, 59 of them in a row. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where a golf competition was held for the first time after a break of 112 years, she won the gold medal ahead of Lydia Ko .

Park holds a degree from Kwangwoon University in Seoul.

Tournament victories

Professional tournaments

Note: victories in major tournaments are in bold underlined .

• 2008: US Women's Open
• 2012: Evian Masters, Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia
• 2013: Honda LPGA Thailand, Kraft Nabisco Championship , North Texas LPGA Shootout, Wegmans LPGA Championship , Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, US Women's Open
• 2014: Manulife Financial LPGA Classic, Wegmans LPGA Championship , Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship
• 2015: HSBC Women's Champions, Volunteers of America North Texas Shootout, KPMG Women's PGA Championship , Ricoh Women's British Open , Lorena Ochoa Invitational
• 2017: HSBC Women's Champions
• 2018: Bank of Hope Founders Cup

Web links

Commons : Park In-bee  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player profile on the LPGA Tour (English)
• Park In-bee on seoulsisters.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alan Shipnuck: Olympic Women's golf: Inbee Park Runs Away with Gold Medal. In: golf.com. August 20, 2016, accessed January 8, 2019 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Park is the family name here, In-bee is the first name.