Jeong Jang
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| Personal Information | |
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| Birth | June 11, 1980 (age 26) Daejon South Korea |
| Height | 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) |
| Nationality |  Republic of Korea |
| Residence | Daejon, South Korea and Orlando, Florida |
| College | Joongboo University |
| Career | |
| Turned Pro | 2000 |
| Current tour | LPGA Tour (joined 2003) |
| Professional wins | 2 (LPGA Tour: 2) |
| Major Championship results Wins: 1 |
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| Women's British Open | Won 2005 |
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| Jeong Jang | |
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| Hangul: |
장정
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| Hanja: |
張晶
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| Revised Romanization: | Jang Jeong |
| McCune-Reischauer: | Chang Chǒng |
Jeong Jang (born June 11, 1980 in Daejeon, Korea) is a South Korean golfer who plays on the U.S. based LPGA Tour. She is also a member of the South Korean KLPGA.
Jang stated playing golf at the age of thirteen. As a teenager she won the 1997 Korea Women's Open and the 1998 Korea Women's Amateur. She attended Joongbu University. After qualifying for the LPGA Tour at her first attempt, Jang had a successful rookie season in 2000 including a second place finish. She reached twelfth on the money list in 2004 and in that year had nine finishes in the top ten. In July 2005 she won for the first time, claiming the Women's British Open, which is one of the women's majors, by four shots. In February 2006 she was in the top ten of the first ever set of Women's World Golf Rankings. She claimed her second LPGA win in 2006 at the Wegmans LPGA.
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[edit] Professional wins (2)
[edit] LPGA Tour (2)
- 2005 (1) Women's British Open
- 2006 (1) Wegmans LPGA
LPGA Majors are shown in bold.
[edit] Results in LPGA majors
| Tournament | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
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| Kraft Nabisco Championship | DNP | DNP | T18 | T45 | T21 | 23 | T27 | T19 | T54 |
| LPGA Championship | DNP | CUT | CUT | T57 | T11 | T23 | T13 | T58 | |
| U.S. Women's Open | CUT | DNP | DNP | T22 | T6 | T7 | T50 | T28 | |
| Women's British Open ^ | DNP | CUT | CUT | T4 | T14 | T23 | 1 | T26 |
^ 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 a win. Yellow background for a top-10 finish.
[edit] External links
- Profile on the LPGA Tour's official site
- Golf Stars Online - links to features and articles
- Seoul Sisters - fansite profile
- KLPGA profile (Korean language)
