Hee-kyung Seo

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Hee-kyung Seo
서희경
2010 Women's British Open – Hee Kyung Seo (6).jpg
Personal information
Full nameHee-Kyung Seo
NicknameSupermodel of the Fairways
Born (1986-07-08) 8 July 1986 (age 35)
Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Sporting nationality South Korea
ResidenceOrlando, Florida, U.S.
SpouseJung-hyun Kook
Career
Turned professional2006
Retired2015
Current tour(s)LPGA Tour (joined 2011)
LPGA of Korea (joined 2006)
Professional wins12
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour1
Ladies European Tour1
LPGA of Korea Tour11
Best results in LPGA major championships
ANA InspirationT4: 2012
Women's PGA C'shipT34: 2011
U.S. Women's Open2nd: 2011
Women's British OpenT5: 2010
Evian ChampionshipT64: 2013
Achievements and awards
LPGA of Korea Tour
leading money winner
2009
LPGA Tour
Rookie of the Year
2011
Hee-kyung Seo
Hangul
서희경
Revised RomanizationSeo Hui-Kyeong
McCune–ReischauerSŏ Hŭi-gyŏng

Hee-kyung Seo (Korean: 서희경, born 8 July 1986), also known as Seo Hee-kyung, is a former South Korean female professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour and on LPGA of Korea Tour. She won the LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year award in 2011.

After winning three LPGA of Korea Tour major championships in 2009, Seo notched her first LPGA Tour triumph at the 2010 Kia Classic where she finished six shots ahead of Inbee Park.[1]

Seo had a close call in the 2011 U.S. Women's Open when she led by two shots with two holes to play, but she missed a 4 footer for par on the 71st hole, while So Yeon Ryu birdied the 72nd hole, resulting in a playoff, which Ryu went on to win.

Seo also came close at the 2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship, where she led by three strokes at one point, but bogeys on the last four holes would result in her finishing two strokes back of winner Sun Young Yoo.

On 30 November 2013, she married Junghoon Philip Kook (born 1979), an executive officer at DWS Asset Management based in Seoul, and gave a birth to their first son, Dohyun Philip Kook on 15 August 2014, on the Independence Day of Korea. Since then, they had two more sons, Dohoon Francis (born 2016) and Doheon Michael (born 2018). Seo officially retired from professional golf in November 2015 to spend more time with her family.[2]

Professional wins[]

LPGA Tour (1)[]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 28 Mar 2010 Kia Classic −12 (70-67-69-70=276) 6 strokes South Korea Inbee Park

LPGA Tour playoff record (0–4)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 2011 U.S. Women's Open South Korea So Yeon Ryu Lost three hole aggregate playoff:
Ryu: 3-4-3=10 (−2), Seo: 3-6-4=13 (+1)
2 2012 Women's Australian Open Paraguay Julieta Granada
United States Jessica Korda
United States Stacy Lewis
United States Brittany Lincicome
South Korea So Yeon Ryu
Korda won with birdie on second extra hole
3 2012 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic South Korea Chella Choi
United States Brittany Lang
South Korea Inbee Park
Lang won with birdie on third extra hole
Park eliminated by birdie on second hole
Choi eliminated by birdie on first hole
4 2013 LPGA KEB-HanaBank Championship South Korea Amy Yang Lost to birdie on first extra hole

KLPGA Tour (11)[]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 30 Aug 2008 −8 (68-68-72=208) 2 strokes South Korea Inbee Park
2 7 Sep 2008 −7 (68-69-72=207) 1 stroke South Korea Ha-Neul Kim
South Korea
3 13 Sep 2008 −9 (70-66-71=207) 5 strokes China
England
4 12 Oct 2008 −11 (70-69-69=208) 3 strokes South Korea Ha-Neul Kim
South Korea
South Korea
5 16 Nov 2008 Saint Four Ladies Masters in Jeju^ −14 (69-67-66=202) 2 strokes South Korea Sun Ju Ahn
6 23 Nov 2008 −2 (78-72-64=214) 3 strokes South Korea
South Korea
7 17 Apr 2009 −6 (71-72-67=210) 1 stroke South Korea Sun Ju Ahn,
South Korea Ilhee Lee
8 3 May 2009 Taeyoung Cup Korea Women's Open −9 (70-71-66=207) 1 stroke South Korea
9 18 Oct 2009 −9 (72-71-68-68=279) 5 strokes South Korea Na Yeon Choi
10 25 Oct 2009 −16 (69-66-68-69=272) 1 stroke South Korea Jang Ha-na (amateur)
11 22 Nov 2009 −6 (73-71-66=210) 3 strokes South Korea

Tournaments in bold denotes major championships on KLPGA Tour.
^ Co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour

Results in LPGA majors[]

Results not in chronological order before 2015.

Tournament 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
ANA Inspiration T21 T33 T4 T13 CUT
Women's PGA Championship T34 CUT CUT T41
U.S. Women's Open T48 T62 2 T18 T25
Women's British Open T5 T22 T26 T25
The Evian Championship ^ T64
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
T = tied

Summary[]

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
ANA Inspiration 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 4
Women's PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2
U.S. Women's Open 0 1 0 1 1 3 5 5
Women's British Open 0 0 0 1 1 3 4 4
The Evian Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals 0 1 0 3 3 9 19 16
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 9 (2009 U.S. Open – 2012 Kraft Nabisco)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (three times)

LPGA Tour career summary[]

Year Tournaments
played
Cuts
made
Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish
Earnings ($) Money
list rank
Scoring
average
Scoring
rank
2006 1 1 0 0 0 0 16 17,680 n/a 72.00 n/a
2008 1 1 0 0 0 0 17 19,920 n/a 72.00 n/a
2009 5 4 0 0 0 0 15 73,659 n/a 73.31 n/a
2010[3] 6 6 1 0 0 2 1 369,089 n/a 72.96 n/a
2011 21 18 0 1 0 3 2 619,429 21 71.78 21
2012 25 21 0 2 0 8 T2 600,403 22 71.57 25
2013 22 18 0 1 0 3 2 446,373 33 71.74 38
2014 7 4 0 0 0 0 T29 30,315 128 73.43 n/a
2015 7 5 0 0 0 0 T41 34,050 123 73.64 n/a
  • Seo was not a member of the LPGA Tour prior to 2011. Earnings and records for those years are not official.
  • official as of the 2015 season[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Seo Hee-kyung Coasts to Kia Classic Title
  2. ^ "2011 LPGA Rookie of the Year retires". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Hee Kyung Seo 2010 Record". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
  4. ^ "Hee Kyung Seo Stats". LPGA. Retrieved 25 November 2015.

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