Angel Yin

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Angel Yin
Angel Yin at the 2015 ANNIKA invitational.jpg
Yin in 2015
Personal information
Born (1998-10-03) October 3, 1998 (age 23)
Los Angeles, California
Height5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Sporting nationality United States
Career
Turned professional2016
Current tour(s)LPGA Tour
Ladies European Tour
Professional wins1
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour1
Best results in LPGA major championships
ANA InspirationT21: 2017
Women's PGA C'shipT4: 2018
U.S. Women's OpenT2: 2019
Women's British OpenT11: 2017
Evian ChampionshipT48: 2021

Angel Yin (born October 3, 1998) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.[1]

Amateur career[]

Yin won the 7–8 year old Junior World Golf Championships, won the California State Women’s Amateur as a 12 year old and again as a 14 year old, was the youngest player at the 2011 U.S. Women's Amateur, was co-medalist at a U.S. Women's Amateur, and was the youngest player in the field at the (also the second youngest in history).[2]

In 2015, she competed in the Junior Solheim Cup.[3]

Professional[]

Yin posted five top-5 finishes in 2017.[4] Her "powerful swing and ebullient personality" brought her attention from Juli Inkster, U.S. Solheim Cup captain, who named Yin as a captain's pick for the 2017 Solheim Cup. She became the youngest player on either team.[3][5] She scored 1.5 points out of 3 matches. On December 9, 2017, she won the Omega Dubai Ladies Classic for her first professional victory. Yin started off the 2019 season tying for fourth in the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open on February 27, 2019.[6]

Personal[]

Yin was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Michelle Liu, a businesswoman who immigrated to the U.S. from China, caddied for Yin when she was still an amateur. Yin attended Arcadia High School, but finished her diploma online.[5][7]

Professional wins (1)[]

Ladies European Tour wins (1)[]

  • 2017 Omega Dubai Ladies Classic

Results in LPGA majors[]

Results not in chronological order before 2019 or in 2020.

Tournament 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
ANA Inspiration T55 73 T21 74 T39 T59 T57
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT CUT CUT T2 CUT 6
Women's PGA Championship T36 T4 T21 T44 CUT
The Evian Championship ^ CUT T69 CUT NT T48
Women's British Open CUT T11 CUT T35 T59 T34

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013.

  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
"T" = tied

Summary[]

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
ANA Inspiration 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 7
U.S. Women's Open 0 1 0 1 2 2 7 2
Women's PGA Championship 0 0 0 1 1 2 5 4
The Evian Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2
Women's British Open 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 4
Totals 0 1 0 2 3 6 29 19
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 4 (twice)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (three times)

Team appearances[]

Amateur

Professional

Solheim Cup record[]

Year Total
matches		 Total
W–L–H		 Singles
W–L–H		 Foursomes
W–L–H		 Fourballs
W–L–H		 Points
won		 Points
%
Career 6 3–2–1 1–0–1 0–0–0 2–2–0 3.5 58.3
2017 3 1–1–1 0–0–1 halved w/ K. Icher 1–1–0 won w/ L. Salas 6&5
lost w/ L. Salas 4&2 		1.5 50.0
2019 3 2–1–0 1–0–0 def. A. Muñoz 2&1 1–1–0 won w/ A. McDonald 7&5
lost w/ A. McDonald 2 dn 		2 66.7

References[]

  1. ^ Mell, Randall (August 5, 2017). "Yin plays her way into Solheim consideration". Golf Channel. Archived from the original on August 8, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  2. ^ Brumer, Andy (February 6, 2017). "Angel Yin… Hitting it from Here to Heaven". Fore. Archived from the original on December 7, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Nichols, Beth Ann (August 5, 2017). "Breaking down the 2017 Solheim Cup Team USA roster scenarios". Golfweek.
  4. ^ Mickey, Lisa D. (30 June 2018). "Even in blazing heat and 5 shots back, Angel Yin is chill at KPMG Women's PGA". ESPN.
  5. ^ a b "Precocious Yin, 19, establishing herself on LPGA Tour". The San Diego Tribune. March 19, 2018.
  6. ^ Cleveland.com "Nelly Korda wins Women’s Australian Open 2019: Final results, leaderboard" February 17, 2019 [1]
  7. ^ Merrill, Elizabeth (August 17, 2017). "American teen Angel Yin just having fun in her Solheim Cup debut". ESPN.

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