Park Hee-young

Park Hee-young
Personal information
Nickname Rocket
Born (1987-05-24) 24 May 1987
South Korea
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Nationality  South Korea
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
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
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.

Early golf career

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.

LPGA Tour career

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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]

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.[4]

Personal life

As of 2011, Park's sister Choo Young, is a player on the Korean LPGA Tour. Her sister will begin her rookie year on the LPGA Tour in 2015, after finishing in a tie for 11th place at Stage III of LPGA Q School in Daytona Beach, Florida.


Professional wins (9)

LPGA Tour wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreTo parMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-upWinner's
share ($)
1 20 Nov 2011 CME Group Titleholders 71-69-69-70=279 −9 2 strokes United States Paula Creamer
Germany Sandra Gal		 500,000
2 14 Jul 2013 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic 65-67-61-65=258 −26 Playoff United States Angela Stanford 195,000

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
1 2013 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic United States Angela Stanford Won with birdie on third extra hole

LPGA of Korea Tour wins (6)

  • 2004 Hite Cup (as an amateur)[5]
  • 2005 PAVV Invitational,[6] two other wins[5]
  • 2006 Phoenix Park Classic, Lake Hills Classic[6]

Ladies Asian Golf Tour wins (1)

  • 2006 Thailand Ladies Open

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order before 2018.

Tournament200720082009201020112012201320142015201620172018
ANA Inspiration T30 T38 T53 T15 T70 T26 T7 T26 CUT T45 CUT T40
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT T9 T41 T45 CUT CUT T15 CUT T65 CUT DNP
Women's PGA Championship DNP CUT CUT CUT T14 14 T51 CUT CUT T4 CUT T49
Women's British Open DNP T14 T11 T55 T43 T33 T2 67 CUT CUT DNP T52
The Evian Championship ^ T19 T20 CUT T36 DNP CUT

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

TournamentWins2nd3rdTop-5Top-10Top-25EventsCuts made
ANA Inspiration0000121210
U.S. Women's Open000012115
Women's PGA Championship000113115
Women's British Open010113108
The Evian Championship00000253
Totals01024124931
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 8 (2010 U.S. Open – 2012 LPGA)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (four times)

LPGA Tour career summary

YearTournaments
played		Cuts
made		Wins2nd3rdTop 10sBest
finish		Earnings
($)		Money
list rank		Scoring
average		Scoring
rank
2004 1 1 0 0 0 0 T16 n/a 70.0
2005 1 1 0 0 0 1 T4 63,544 n/a 71.67
2006 1 1 0 0 0 0 T25 12,202 n/a 72.67
2007 5 3 0 0 0 0 T12 53,246 n/a 74.26
2008 28 22 0 0 0 4 4 474,744 35 71.78 27
2009 25 19 0 2 0 6 2 666,305 20 71.94 35
2010 22 17 0 0 0 6 T4 327,431 34 71.69 25
2011 21 19 1 0 1 3 1 851,781 12 72.42 37
2012 25 21 0 0 0 5 5 427,717 34 71.71 30
2013 26 24 1 1 1 5 1 848,676 10 71.07 19
2014 29 27 0 0 0 2 T7 447,658 40 71.39 28
2015 28 18 0 1 0 3 T2 347,523 52 71.99 56
2016 26 20 0 0 0 4 T4 527,393 34 71.25 35
2017 22 9 0 0 1 1 3 131,235 91 72.15 102
  • official through 2017 season[7]

References

  1. ↑ Hee Young Park's Thailand Odyssey
  2. ↑ Ochoa takes three-stroke victory in Thailand
  3. ↑ Hee Young Park wins LPGA finale
  4. ↑ "Hee Young Park wins LPGA Manulife". ESPN. Associated Press. 14 July 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  5. 1 2 LPGA Tour profile
  6. 1 2 Seoul Sisters profile
  7. ↑ "Hee Young Park stats". LPGA. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
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