Se Ri Pak
| Pak Se-ri | |
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| — Golfer — | |
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Pak at the 2009 LPGA Championship
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| Personal information | |
| Born |
28 September 1977 Daejeon, Korea |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Nationality |
 South Korea
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| Residence | Orlando, Florida, U.S. |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 1996 |
| Retired | 2016 |
| Former tour(s) |
LPGA of Korea Tour (joined 1996) LPGA Tour (joined 1998) |
| Professional wins | 39 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| LPGA Tour | 25 |
| LPGA of Korea Tour | 14 |
| Best results in LPGA major championships (wins: 5) |
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| ANA Inspiration | T4: 2014 |
| Women's PGA C'ship | Won: 1998, 2002, 2006 |
| U.S. Women's Open | Won: 1998 |
| du Maurier Classic | T7: 2000 |
| Women's British Open | Won: 2001 |
| Evian Championship | T4: 2013 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| World Golf Hall of Fame | 2007 (member page) |
| LPGA Rookie of the Year | 1998 |
| GWAA Female Player of the Year |
1998 |
| LPGA Vare Trophy | 2003 |
| LPGA Heather Farr Award | 2006 |
| Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year |
1998 |
| Pak Se-ri | |
| Hangul | |
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| Hanja | 세리 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Seri |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Seri |
Pak Se-ri or Se-ri Pak (Korean: 박세리, Korean pronunciation: [paːk sʰeːɾi]; born 28 September 1977) is a South Korean former professional golfer, who played on the LPGA Tour from 1998 to 2016. She was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in November 2007.
Born in Daejeon, she attended Yuseong Nursery School in that city and then Keumseong Girls’ High School in Gongju City, Chungnam Province where she was the school's best amateur golfer. She then moved to Seoul for training. Pak turned professional in 1996, a year before she moved to the United States as a 20-year-old. In 1996 and 1997, she won six tournaments on the LPGA of Korea Tour. Pak joined the LPGA Tour full-time for the year 1998, crowning her rookie season with victories in two majors: the McDonald's LPGA Championship and U.S. Women's Open. At just 20 years of age, she became the youngest-ever winner of the U.S. Women's Open. About.com writes that "Pak won a 20-hole playoff for that victory, making that tournament - at 92 holes in length - the longest tournament ever in women's professional golf." Four days after the U.S. Women's Open win, Pak shot a then-LPGA record 61 during the second round of the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic. She won the Rolex Rookie of the Year award for that season.
Since 1998, she has gone on to win 21 more events on the Tour, including three more majors. In June 2007, at age 29, she qualified for the World Golf Hall of Fame, surpassing Karrie Webb as the youngest living entrant ever. (Tom Morris, Jr., who died in 1875 at the age of 24, had been elected in 1975.)
Pak has also competed in a professional men's event, at the 2003 SBS Super Tournament on the Korean Tour. The Korean Tour is a feeder tour for the Asian Tour and does not offer world ranking points. She finished 10th in the event, according to the World Golf Hall of Fame "becoming the first woman to make the cut in a professional men's tournament since Babe Zaharias did so in 1945."
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