Pak Se-ri

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Pak Se-ri
Pak Se-ri
Personnel
Nation: Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea
Career data
Professional since: 1996
Current tour: LPGA tour
Tournament wins: 33
Major wins : 5
Awards: Order of Merit (South Korea, 1998)
Vare Trophy (2003)
World Golf Hall of Fame (2007)
Korean spelling
Hangeul 박세리
Hanja 朴 세리
Revised
Romanization 		Bak Se-ri
McCune-
Reischauer 		Pak Seri

Pak Se-ri (born September 28, 1977 in Daejeon , South Korea ) is a professional golfer on the North American LPGA Tour . She is the most successful golfer in South Korea and a five-time major winner.

Career

On the advice and support of her father, she began to play golf at the age of 14 and has been successful in 30 tournaments over the course of her amateur career.

Pak became a professional golfer in 1996 and first played on the Korea LPGA Tour , where she won six tournaments. Then Pak qualified for the 1998 season on the LPGA Tour . Already in the first season she won two major wins, at the McDonald's LPGA Championship and the US Women's Open Championship . Of course, Pak was named Rookie of the Year (best newcomer).

Since then, she has won nearly 30 tournaments on the tour, including three other majors . In 2007 she was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame . This made Pak Se-ri the youngest living member of this hall of fame. ( Young Tom Morris died at the age of 24, was admitted posthumously.)

Her impressive track record and ambition to learn and use the English language made her very popular in the United States. However, she is overshadowed by the even more successful Annika Sörenstam .

Like Sörenstam, Pak has already taken part in a professional men's tournament, the SBS Super Tournament 2003 on the Korean Tour . The Korean Tour is the second level tour of the Asian Tour and does not count towards the golf world rankings . Unlike Sörenstam, she survived the cut and came in tenth. However, Sörenstam tried a much stronger PGA TOUR tournament .

At the LPGA Championship 2005 Pak missed the cut for the first time after 29 major starts. In retrospect, it turned out that she had a finger injury. The following year she made an impressive return and won the major in the jump-off against Karrie Webb on the first extra hole.

Awards

LPGA Tour victories

  • 1998 McDonald's LPGA Championship , US Women's Open , Jamie Farr Kroger Classic, Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
  • 1999 ShopRite LPGA Classic, Jamie Farr Kroger Classic, Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf, PageNet Championship
  • 2001 YourLife Vitamins LPGA Classic, Longs Drugs Challenge, Jamie Farr Kroger Classic, Weetabix Women's British Open , AFLAC Champions
  • 2002 The Office Depot Championship, McDonald's LPGA Championship , First Union Betsy King Classic, Mobile LPGA Tournament of Champions, Sports Today CJ Nine Bridges Classic.
  • 2003 Safeway PING, Chick-fil-A Charity Championship, Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
  • 2004 Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill
  • 2006 McDonald's LPGA Championship
  • 2007 Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic
  • 2010 Bell Micro LPGA Classic

Major championships are in bold .

Korean LPGA victories

  • 1996 Dong-Il Renown Ladies Classic, Fila Women's Open, SBS Women's Professional Golf Challenge, Seoul Women's Open
  • 1997 Cheil Industries Rose Women's Open, Seoul Women's Open
  • 2003 MBC Xcanvas Women's Open
  • 2012 KDB Daewoo Securities Classic

See also

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Pak is the family name here, Se-ri is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Pak, Se-ri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 박세리 (Hangeul); 朴 세리 (Hanja)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean golfer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Daejeon , South Korea