Bae Sang-moon
| Bae Sang-moon 배상문 |
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|---|---|
| — Golfer — | |
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Bae Sang-moon |
| Born |
21 June 1986 Daegu, South Korea |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 180 lb (82 kg; 13 st) |
| Nationality |
 South Korea
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| Residence | Kyunggi-do, South Korea |
| Career | |
| College | Daegu University |
| Turned professional | 2004 |
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Former tour(s) |
Japan Golf Tour Asian Tour |
| Professional wins | 15 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 2 |
| Japan Golf Tour | 3 |
| Asian Tour | 3 |
| Other | 7 |
| Best results in major championships |
|
| Masters Tournament | T33: 2015 |
| U.S. Open | T42: 2011 |
| The Open Championship | T64: 2012 |
| PGA Championship | T54: 2012 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| Japan Golf Tour leading money winner |
2011 |
Bae Sang-moon (Korean: 배상문; born 21 June 1986), or Sang-moon Bae, is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, Asian Tour and Japan Golf Tour. He is currently on hiatus from professional golf until August 2017 because of a military commitment required of South Korean males.
Bae turned professional in 2004. He won the 2006 Emerson Pacific Group Open on the Korean Tour, and in 2007 he won the SK Telecom Open, an Asian Tour and Korean Tour co-sanctioned event held in his home country. In 2008, he won his home country's open, the Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open. In 2009, he won the GS Caltex Maekyung Open.
In 2011, Bae finished as the leading money winner on the Japan Golf Tour for the season after winning three tournaments. Bae was the second consecutive Korean to take this accolade after Kim Kyung-tae's success in 2010. His three victories all came within two months of each other at the Vana H Cup KBC Augusta, the Coca-Cola Tokai Classic and the Japan Open. At the end of the year, he competed at the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament, where he finished T11 to secure his playing rights for the 2012 PGA Tour season.
Bae started the season very strongly, making all of his first eight cuts on the PGA Tour. He recorded his first top-10 finish of the year when he reached the quarter-finals at the 2012 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, knocking out Ian Poulter and Charl Schwartzel before losing to Rory McIlroy. In March 2012, Bae lost in a four-man playoff at the Transitions Championship on the PGA Tour. After finishing at −13 for the tournament, he lost the playoff when Luke Donald holed a birdie putt on the first extra hole to defeat Bae, Jim Furyk and Robert Garrigus. He finished his debut season making 17 out of 25 cuts and ended up 71st in the FedEx Cup standings, one position outside of qualifying for the third playoff event.
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