Park Hee-young
| Park Hee-young | |
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Park at the 2013 Women's British Open
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| Personal information | |
| Nickname | Rocket |
| Born |
24 May 1987 South Korea |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Nationality |
 South Korea
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| Career | |
| Turned professional | 2004 |
| Current tour(s) |
LPGA (joined 2008) KLPGA (joined 2005) |
| Professional wins | 9 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| LPGA Tour | 2 |
| LPGA of Korea Tour | 6 |
| Ladies Asian Golf Tour | 1 |
| Best results in LPGA major championships |
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| ANA Inspiration | T7: 2013 |
| Women's PGA C'ship | T4: 2016 |
| U.S. Women's Open | T9: 2009 |
| Women's British Open | T2: 2013 |
| Evian Championship | T19: 2013 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| KLPGA Rookie of the Year | 2005 |
| Park Hee-young | |
| Hangul | 박희영 |
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| Revised Romanization | Bak Hui-yeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Hŭi-yŏng |
Park Hee-young (Hangul: 박희영, born 24 May 1987) is a South Korean professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.
As an amateur, Park was a three time member of the South Korean National team. Park was twice runner-up in the South Korea Amateur Open.
2005 was Park's first full year as a professional golfer. She won three times on the LPGA of Korea Tour which earned her rookie of the year honors. Park won another two KLPGA tournaments in 2006.
Park earned her tour card at the 2007 LPGA qualifying school. She played in 28 LPGA events in 2008 and made the cut in 22 of them. Her best finish was a T4 and she earned $474,744 for the year, 35th on the tour's money list.
At the second LPGA event of 2009, Honda LPGA Thailand, Park shot an opening round 79 in the tournament. Shortly after her round was completed, Park had to go to a hospital. She was treated and released. Park completed the tournament, shooting rounds of 64, 69, 65, which enabled her to finish in solo second place three shots behind Lorena Ochoa. Later in 2009, Park finished second at the Mizuno Classic.
On 20 November 2011, Park won her first LPGA Tour event, the CME Group Titleholders. She finished two shots ahead of Paula Creamer and Sandra Gal.
Her second victory came in July 2013 at the Manulife Financial LPGA Classic in Canada. Tied with Angela Stanford at 258 (–26) after 72 holes, the two went to a sudden-death playoff on the par-5 18th hole. Park birdied the hole three times in regulation (par on Friday) and three times in the playoff to win.
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