| Sun Young Yoo 유선영 |
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Yoo at the 2010 Women's British Open |
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Sun Young Yoo |
| Nickname | Course Clown |
| Born | 13 December 1986 Seoul, South Korea |
| Nationality | South Korea |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 2004 |
| Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2006) |
| Former tour(s) | Futures Tour |
| Professional wins | 2 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| LPGA Tour | 1 |
| Futures Tour | 1 |
| Best results in LPGA Major Championships |
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| Kraft Nabisco C'ship | T12: 2009 |
| LPGA Championship | T20: 2011 |
| U.S. Women's Open | T25: 2011 |
| Women's British Open | T7: 2011 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| Futures Tour Rookie of the Year |
2005 |
Sun-Young Yoo (Korean 유선영) (born 13 December 1986) is a South Korean female professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour.
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Yoo had a distinguished amateur career. In 2001 she won the Korean Junior Golf Championship. She played on the Korean National Golf team in both 2002 and 2004. In 2004 Yoo won the Korean Amateur in addition to being a quarter-finalist at the U.S. Women's Amateur.
Yoo turned professional in November 2004 and began playing the Futures Tour in 2005. Yoo won her first professional event, the Betty Puskar Golf Classic.[1] That and ten top ten finishes in 18 events allowed Yoo to begin playing the LPGA Tour in 2006.
In September 2009 Yoo had her best ever finish on the LPGA Tour. At the end of 54 holes at the P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship, she was tied for first with Jiyai Shin and Angela Stanford. A sudden death playoff followed which was won on the second extra hole by Shin.[2]
Yoo won her first LPGA Tour title at the 2010 Sybase Match Play Championship where she again faced Jiyai Shin and Angela Stanford on the way to the title. She defeated world number one Shin, in a semifinal match 2&1 and went on to defeat Stanford 3&1 in the championship match.[3]
Among her fellow South Koreans on the LPGA Tour, Yoo is known as 'Course Clown'.[4]
| Tournament | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
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| Kraft Nabisco Championship | DNP | CUT | DNP | T12 | CUT | T62 |
| LPGA Championship | CUT | WD | T77 | T49 | T25 | T20 |
| U.S. Women's Open | DNP | CUT | CUT | 33 | CUT | T25 |
| Women's British Open | T36 | CUT | T46 | T33 | T31 | T7 |
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.
| Year | Tournaments played |
Cuts made |
Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top 10s | Best finish |
Earnings ($) | Money list rank |
Scoring average |
Scoring rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 27 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | T5 | 231,473 | 57 | 72.53 | 64 |
| 2007 | 22 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 131,092 | 75 | 73.06 | 61 |
| 2008 | 30 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 688,983 | 25 | 71.62 | 20 |
| 2009 | 25 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | T2 | 614,874 | 23 | 71.16 | 16 |
| 2010 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 430,984 | 4 | 72.41 | 34 |