Choi Na-Yeon

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Na Yeon Choi 최나연
— Golfer —
Choi at the 2013 Women's British Open
Personal information
Born	(1987-10-28) 28 October 1987 Seoul, South Korea
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Nationality	South Korea
Residence	Orlando, Florida^[1]
Career
Turned professional	2004
Current tour(s)	LPGA Tour (joined 2008)
Former tour(s)	KLPGA Tour (joined 2004)
Professional wins	12
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour	7
LPGA of Korea Tour	7
Best results in LPGA Major Championships (Wins: 1)
Kraft Nabisco C'ship	T6: 2008
LPGA Championship	8th: 2009
U.S. Women's Open	Won: 2012
Women's British Open	T2: 2013
The Evian Championship	T44: 2013
Achievements and awards
LPGA Vare Trophy	2010
LPGA Tour Money Winner	2010

Choi Na-Yeon
Hangul	최나연
Hanja	崔蘿蓮

Revised Romanization	Choe Na Yeon
McCune–Reischauer	Choi Na Yŏn

Na Yeon Choi (Korean: 최나연, pronounced [tɕʰoe na jʌn]; born 28 October 1987) is a South Korean female professional golfer playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. In July 2012, she won the U.S. Women's Open for her first major championship.^[2]

Amateur career

At age 17 in 2004, Choi won the ADT CAPS Invitational on the LPGA of Korea Tour (KLPGA), beating future Hall-of-Famer Se Ri Pak by four strokes. Choi turned professional shortly thereafter, in November 2004. She won once each year on the KLPGA Tour in 2004 through 2007.

Professional career

In 2007, Choi played in the Hana Bank-KOLON Championship, an event co-sponsored by the LPGA and KLPGA Tours, and finished eighth. She attended LPGA Qualifying Tournament in the fall of 2007, but finished two shots shy of earning a fully exempt Tour card for the 2008 season. Her non-exempt card meant she was not automatically eligible for every event, yet her high conditional status and consistent good play put her in nearly every tournament. She won over $1 million and finished 11th on the 2008 money list with nine top-10 finishes in 27 events played. She finished second in the LPGA Rookie of the Year race, just behind winner Yani Tseng.^[3]

In 2009, Choi won twice on the LPGA Tour. In October she won the 20-player Samsung World Championship. Two weeks later she won the Hana Bank-KOLON Championship, an event co-sanctioned with the KLPGA.^[4] Her third LPGA Tour win came in July 2010 at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic at which she beat three other players on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.^[5] In 2010, Choi was both the LPGA Tour money leader and the leading scorer (Vare Trophy).^[6]

Professional wins (12)

LPGA Tour wins (7)

Legend
Major championships (1)
Other LPGA Tour (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	20 Sep 2009	Samsung World Championship	71-67-63-71=272	−16	1 stroke	Ai Miyazato
2	1 Nov 2009	Hana Bank-KOLON Championship	68-71-67=206	−10	1 stroke	Yani Tseng Maria Hjorth
3	4 Jul 2010	Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic	64-67-68-71=270	−14	Playoff	In-Kyung Kim Christina Kim Song-Hee Kim
4	31 Oct 2010	LPGA Hana Bank Championship	69-68-69=206	−10	2 strokes	Vicky Hurst
5	16 Oct 2011	Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia	66-68-67-68=269	−15	1 stroke	Yani Tseng
6	8 Jul 2012	U.S. Women's Open	71-72-65-73=281	−7	4 strokes	Amy Yang
7	18 Nov 2012	CME Group Titleholders	67-68-69-70=274	−14	2 strokes	So Yeon Ryu

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–3)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	2008	Evian Masters	Helen Alfredsson Angela Park	Alfredsson won with birdie on third extra hole Park eliminated with birdie on first hole
2	2010	Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic	In-Kyung Kim, Christina Kim Song-Hee Kim	Won with birdie on second extra hole
3	2011	Safeway Classic	Suzann Pettersen	Lost to par on first extra hole
4	2012	HSBC Women's Champions	Angela Stanford, Jenny Shin Shanshan Feng	Stanford won with par on third extra hole Choi eliminated with par on second hole Feng eliminated with par on first hole

KLPGA Tour wins (7)

2004 (1) ADT CAPS Invitational (as an amateur)
2005 (1) Lake Side Ladies Open
2006 (1) KB Star Tour in Hampyung
2007 (1) Shinsegye Cup KLPGA Championship
2009 (1) Hana Bank-KOLON Championship (co-sanctioned with LPGA)
2010 (1) LPGA Hana Bank Championship (co-sanctioned with LPGA)
2011 (1) Hanwha Finance Classic

Major championships

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Winning score	Margin	Runner-up
2012	U.S. Women's Open	−7 (71-72-65-73=281)	4 strokes	Amy Yang

Results timeline

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Kraft Nabisco Championship	DNP	T6	T40	T27	T47	T8	T32
LPGA Championship	DNP	T18	8	CUT	T43	DQ	T9
U.S. Women's Open	CUT	T19	T9	T2	CUT	1	T17
Women's British Open	DNP	T21	T8	T3	T7	T13	T2
The Evian Championship ^							T44

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
DQ = disqualified
T = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

Starts – 26
Wins – 1
2nd place finishes – 2
3rd place finishes – 1
Top 3 finishes – 4
Top 5 finishes – 4
Top 10 finishes – 11
Top 25 finishes – 16
Missed cuts – 3
Most consecutive cuts made – 9
Longest streak of top-10s – 3

LPGA Tour career summary

Year	Tournaments played	Cuts made	Wins	2nds	3rds	Top 10s	Best finish	Earnings ($)	Money list rank	Scoring average	Scoring rank
2005	2	1	0	0	0	0	T14	18,136	n/a	73.80	n/a
2006	2	2	0	0	0	0	T11	29,113	n/a	72.17	n/a
2007	3	1	0	0	0	1	T8	27,899	n/a	75.00	n/a
2008	27	27	0	2	1	9	T2	1,095,759	11	71.10	8
2009	26	26	2	0	3	11	1	1,341,078	6	70.51	7
2010	23	22	2	4	2	15	1	1,871,166	1	69.87	1
2011	21	20	1	2	3	12	1	1,357,382	3	70.53	2
2012	22	22	2	3	1	10	1	1,981,834	2	70.49	5
2013	24	24	0	2	0	8	2	929,964	9	70.31	5

official through 24 November 2013^[7]

Team appearances

Professional

Lexus Cup (representing Asia team): 2008

References

↑ LPGA.com, LPGA 2013 Player Guide
↑ "US Women's Open: South Korea's Na Yeon Choi wins by four shots". BBC Sport. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
↑ "Ochoa clinches third Rolex award". Iseekgolf.com. 24 November 2008. Retrieved July 2010.
↑ "Choi Na-Yeon wins Hana Bank Kolon Championship". The Times of India. 1 November 2009. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
↑ "Choi loses lead, then wins Farr in playoff". Golf Channel. Associated Press. 4 July 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
↑ Lee, Yeong Ho (12 December 2010). "LPGA 상금왕 최나연, 기부천사로 '우뚝'". Yeonhap News. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
↑ "Na Yeon Choi stats". LPGA. Retrieved 25 November 2013.

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Choi Na-Yeon at the LPGA Tour official site
Profile on Seoul Sisters site

v t e U.S. Women's Open champions

1946 Patty Berg∞ 1947 Betty Jameson 1948 Babe Zaharias 1949 Louise Suggs 1950 Babe Zaharias 1951 Betsy Rawls 1952 Louise Suggs 1953 Betsy Rawls† 1954‡ Babe Zaharias 1955‡ Fay Crocker 1956 Kathy Cornelius† 1957 Betsy Rawls 1958‡ Mickey Wright 1959 Mickey Wright 1960 Betsy Rawls 1961 Mickey Wright 1962 Murle Lindstrom 1963‡ Mary Mills 1964 Mickey Wright† 1965 Carol Mann 1966 Sandra Spuzich 1967‡ Catherine LaCoste# 1968‡ Susie Berning 1969 Donna Caponi 1970‡ Donna Caponi 1971‡ JoAnne Carner 1972 Susie Berning 1973 Susie Berning 1974 Sandra Haynie 1975 Sandra Palmer 1976 JoAnne Carner† 1977 Hollis Stacy 1978 Hollis Stacy 1979 Jerilyn Britz 1980 Amy Alcott 1981 Pat Bradley 1982 Janet Alex 1983 Jan Stephenson 1984 Hollis Stacy 1985 Kathy Baker 1986 Jane Geddes† 1987 Laura Davies† 1988 Liselotte Neumann 1989 Betsy King 1990 Betsy King 1991 Meg Mallon 1992 Patty Sheehan† 1993 Lauri Merten 1994 Patty Sheehan 1995 Annika Sörenstam 1996 Annika Sörenstam 1997 Alison Nicholas 1998 Se Ri Pak† 1999 Juli Inkster 2000 Karrie Webb 2001 Karrie Webb 2002 Juli Inkster 2003 Hilary Lunke† 2004 Meg Mallon 2005 Birdie Kim 2006 Annika Sörenstam† 2007 Cristie Kerr 2008 Inbee Park 2009 Eun-Hee Ji 2010 Paula Creamer 2011 So Yeon Ryu† 2012 Na Yeon Choi 2013 Inbee Park

† event won in a playoff; ‡ winner held lead wire-to-wire; # event won by an amateur; ∞ event won in match-play

Persondata
Name	Choi, Na Yeon
Alternative names
Short description	Professional golfer
Date of birth	28 October 1987
Place of birth	Seoul, South Korea
Date of death
Place of death

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