Park Sang-hyun (golfer)

Park Sang-hyun
Personal information
Born (1983-04-24) 24 April 1983
Height 171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 71 kg (157 lb; 11.2 st)
Nationality  South Korea
Career
Status Professional
Current tour(s) Japan Golf Tour
Korean Tour
Professional wins 9
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour 1
Asian Tour 2
Other 6
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament DNP
U.S. Open DNP
The Open Championship CUT: 2018
PGA Championship DNP

Park Sang-hyun (Korean: 박상현; born 24 April 1983) is a South Korean professional golfer. Since 2014 Park has played primarily on the Japan Golf Tour, where he has one win, the 2016 Golf Nippon Series JT Cup.[1]

Before 2014 Park played on the Korean Tour, his first wins coming in 2009. He finished third behind Lee Westwood and Miguel Ángel Jiménez in the 2011 Ballantine’s Championship, an event co-sanctioned with the European Tour and the Asian Tour. Park continues to play on the Korean Tour, where he has won a total of eight times, including the GS Caltex Maekyung Open in 2016 and 2018.[2] He finished runner-up in the 2018 Kolon Korean Open, one of the Open Qualifying Series events, to gain entry to the 2018 Open Championship, his first major championship.

Professional wins (9)

Japan Golf Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runners-up
1 4 Dec 2016 Golf Nippon Series JT Cup −13 (66-65-71-65=267) 1 stroke Japan Yuta Ikeda
South Korea Kim Kyung-tae
Japan Satoshi Kodaira

Korean Tour wins (8)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
1 24 May 2009 SK Telecom Open −12 (69-68-70-69=276) 1 stroke South Korea Kim Do-hoon
2 25 Oct 2009 SBS Emerson Pacific Hilton Namhae Open −15 (68-67-67-71=273) 1 stroke South Korea Bae Sang-moon
3 24 Aug 2014 Vainer Pineridge Open −15 (67-71-64-67=269) 1 stroke South Korea Maeng Dong-seop
4 12 Oct 2014 KJ Choi Invitational −21 (65-68-68-66=267) 2 strokes South Korea Kim Tae-hoon
5 8 May 2016 GS Caltex Maekyung Open1 −8 (67-70-75-68=280) Playoff South Korea Lee Soo-min
6 6 May 2018 GS Caltex Maekyung Open2 −1 (71-70-71-71=283) Playoff India Gaganjeet Bhullar, South Korea Chang Yi-keun,
South Korea Hwang Jung-gon
7 17 Jun 2018 KEB Hana Bank Invitational −21 (68-64-68-67=267) 1 stroke South Korea Lee Sung-ho
8 16 Sep 2018 Shinhan Donghae Open2 −22 (65-68-66-63=262) 5 strokes Zimbabwe Scott Vincent

1 Co-sanctioned with OneAsia Tour
2 Co-sanctioned with the Asian Tour

References

  1. ↑ "Week 49: Matsuyama Wins A 5th Title". Official World Golf Ranking. 5 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "Golf: Park Sang-Hyun wins GS Caltex Maekyung Open". Ten Sports. 8 May 2016.
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