Se Ri Pak

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Se Ri Pak
Personal Information
Birth September 28, 1977 (age 29)
Daejeon, Korea
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Nationality Flag of South Korea Republic of Korea
Residence Orlando, Florida, USA
College none
Career
Turned Pro 1996
Current tour LPGA Tour (joined 1998)
Other tour KLPGA (joined 1996)
Professional wins 29 (LPGA Tour: 23 other individual: 6)
Major Championship results
Wins: 5
LPGA Championship Won 1998, 2002, 2006
U.S. Women's Open Won 1998
Women's British Open Won 2001
Awards
LPGA Rookie of the Year 1998
Vare Trophy 2003
LPGA Heather Farr Award 2006
Se Ri Pak
Hangul:
박세리
Hanja:
朴세리
Revised Romanization: Bak Se-ri
McCune-Reischauer: Pak Seri

Se Ri Pak (born September 28, 1977 in Daejeon) is a South Korean professional golfer. She is the most internationally successful Korean golfer of either sex by a wide margin. This article gives her Romanized name in Western order (given names first); her family name is Pak.

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Pak turned professional in 1996. In 1996 and 1997 she won six tournaments on the Korean LPGA (KLPGA) 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. She won the Rolex Rookie of the Year award for that season.

Since then she has gone on to win over 20 events on the tour, including three more majors. Her success means she has effectively qualified for the World Golf Hall of Fame, but cannot be inducted until she has been a tour member for 10 years, which should occur in 2007. Assuming she enters the Hall in 2007, she will surpass Karrie Webb as the youngest living entrant ever, Tom Morris, Jr., who was elected in 1975.

Pak has also competed in a professional men's golfer 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.

At the 2005 LPGA Championship she missed the cut for the first time in 29 majors. In an interview quoted on the PGA Tour's website she commented that she was searching for a balance between her golf and her personal life: "I've been a little bit unhappy about everything, my game, big game. I'm not really enjoying it at all, and I'm not doing anything with my ability. I know what I needed, a much better balance. I'm always putting a lot of pressure on myself." Eventually, she was found to have a finger injury. In 2006 she rediscovered her best form by winning the LPGA Championship for the third time to claim her fifth major title overall.

  • 1996-1997 (6) Six wins on the KLPGA in 1996 and 1997

Major championships are shown in bold.

Tournament 1997 1998 1999 2000
Kraft Nabisco Championship DNP DNP T13 T15
LPGA Championship DNP 1 T6 T3
U.S. Women's Open T21 1 T14 T15
du Maurier Classic DNP T41 T13 T7
Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Kraft Nabisco Championship T11 T9 T15 T16 T27 T45
LPGA Championship T39 1 T46 T17 CUT 1
U.S. Women's Open 2 5 50 T32 T45 T3
Women's British Open ^ 1 T11 2 T21 WD WD

^ 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
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Se Ri Pak tees off at the 2006 McDonald's LPGA Championships
Se Ri Pak tees off at the 2006 McDonald's LPGA Championships

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