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Grace Park

Personal Information
Birth	March 6, 1979 (1979-03-06) (age 28) Seoul, South Korea
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Nationality	South Korea
Residence	Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
College	Arizona State University Ewha Womans University
Career
Turned Pro	1999
Current tour	LPGA Tour (joined 2000)
Past tour	Futures Tour (1999)
Professional wins	11 (LPGA Tour 6; Futures Tour 5)
Best Results in Major Championships Wins: 1
Kraft Nabisco	Won 2004
LPGA Championship	2nd: 2003
U.S. Women's Open	T6: 2000
Women's British Open	T3: 2003
Awards
Golfweek College Player of the Year	1998
Vare Trophy	2004

Grace Park was born Park Ji-eun on March 6, 1979 in Seoul, South Korea, and is a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.

Contents 1 Amateur career 2 Professional career 3 Professional wins (11) 3.1 Futures Tour (5) 3.2 LPGA Tour (6) 4 Results in LPGA majors 5 Notes and references 6 External links

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,^[1] winning most major amateur championships in 1998 including the United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship, and tying 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 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.^[2] She was named Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year.^[3]

She won at least one LPGA tournament in each season from 2000 to 2004, including her first major, the 2004 Kraft Nabisco Championship. 2005 and 2006 were difficult years for Park as she suffered from back and neck injuries.

The Boston Globe has described Park as "the striking beauty, the tall and proud walk, the dazzling smile" and she has attracted sponsorship from Nike and Rolex.

• 1999 (5) Betty Puskar FUTURES Golf Classic, YWCA Briarwood FUTURES Open, SmartSpikes FUTURES Classic, Carolina National FUTURES Classic, Greater Lima FUTURES Open

• 2000 (1) Kathy Ireland Greens.com LPGA Classic
• 2001 (1) Office Depot Championship
• 2002 (1) CISCO World Ladies Match Play Championship
• 2003 (1) Michelob Light Open at Kingsmill
• 2004 (2) Kraft Nabisco Championship, CJ Nine Bridges Classic

LPGA Majors are shown in bold.

Tournament	1995	1997	1998	1999	2000
Kraft Nabisco Championship	CUT	CUT	23	T39	DNP
LPGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT
U.S. Women's Open	T63	CUT	DNP	T8	T6
du Maurier Classic	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Kraft Nabisco Championship	T28	T9	CUT	1	5	T35	T69
LPGA Championship	T30	T15	2	3	WD	CUT	CUT
U.S. Women's Open	T39	T18	T10	T64	T52	DNP	CUT
Women's British Open ^	T32	T53	T3	T13	T8	DNP

^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
WD = withdrew Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

1. ^ All-Time Rolex Junior Players of the Year. American Junior Golf Association. Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
2. ^ Lisa D. Mickey. Silver Anniversary Salute: FUTURES Tour Prepares For Next 25 Years. Duramed Futures Tour. Retrieved on 2007-04-27.
3. ^ Duramed FUTURES Tour Awards. Futures Tour. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.

• LPGA Tour biography page
• Grace Park at Golf Stars Online Links to relevant sites, interviews, feature articles and similar.
• Grace Park bio