Grace Park (golfer)
| Grace Park 박지은 |
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Grace Park |
| Born |
6 March 1979 Seoul, South Korea |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Nationality |
 South Korea
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| Residence | Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S. |
| Career | |
| College |
Arizona State University Ewha Womans University |
| Turned professional | 1999 |
| Retired | 2012 |
| Former tour(s) |
Futures Tour (joined 1999) LPGA Tour (joined 2000) |
| Professional wins | 12 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| LPGA Tour | 6 |
| Symetra Tour | 5 |
| Other | 1 |
| Best results in LPGA major championships (wins: 1) |
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| ANA Inspiration | Won: 2004 |
| Women's PGA C'ship | 2nd: 2003 |
| U.S. Women's Open | T6: 2000 |
| du Maurier Classic | DNP |
| Women's British Open | T3: 2003 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| Futures Tour Player of the Year |
1999 |
| LPGA Vare Trophy | 2004 |
| Grace Park | |
| Hangul | 박지은 |
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| Revised Romanization | Bak Ji-eun |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Chiŭn |
Grace Park (born 6 March 1979) is a retired South Korean professional golfer on the LPGA Tour. She was a member of the LPGA Tour from 2000 until her retirement in 2012 and won six LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career.
Park was born Park Ji-eun (Korean: 박지은) in Seoul, South Korea. She moved to Hawaii at the age of 12, and then to Arizona. She received the 1996 Dial Award as top female high-school scholar-athlete in the United States. She attended Arizona State University and graduated from Ewha Womans University in 2003.
Park had an outstanding amateur career in the United States being Rolex Junior Player of the Year in 1994 and 1996, winning several amateur championships in 1998 including the U.S. Women's Amateur and the Women's Western Amateur. She tied for eighth as an amateur in the 1999 U.S. Women's Open.
Park turned professional in 1999 and decided to play on the Futures Tour instead of taking exemptions to LPGA Tour tournaments. She won five of the ten tournaments she entered and became one of the first three golfers to gain automatic LPGA Tour exempt status by finishing top of the money list. She was named Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year.
She won at least one LPGA tournament in each season from 2000 to 2004, including her only major, the 2004 Kraft Nabisco Championship. The years 2005 and 2006 were difficult for Park as she suffered from back and neck injuries, and success continued to elude her the following two seasons as well. In April 2009 it was reported that Park had undergone a successful hip surgery, and that she would be off the LPGA tour for several months.
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