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Yoo Sun-young
유선영

2013 Women's British Open - Yoo Sun-Young (6).jpg
Yoo at the 2013 Women's British Open

Personal information
Full name Yoo Sun-young
Nickname Course Clown
Born
(1986-12-13) 13 December 1986 (age 31)
Seoul, South Korea
Nationality
 South Korea
Residence
Orlando, Florida[1]
Career
Turned professional 2004
Current tour(s)
LPGA Tour (joined 2006)
Former tour(s)
Futures Tour (2005)
Professional wins 3
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour 2
Symetra Tour 1
Best results in LPGA major championships
(wins: 1)
ANA Inspiration
Won: 2012
Women's PGA C'ship T5: 2013
U.S. Women's Open T25: 2011
Women's British Open T7: 2011
Evian Championship T29: 2015
Achievements and awards
Futures Tour
Rookie of the Year
2005


Yoo Sun-young (Korean 유선영 Yu Seon-Yeong [ju sʌnjʌŋ]; born 13 December 1986), also known as Sun Young Yoo, is a South Korean female professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She won the 2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship, which was her first major championship.




Contents






  • 1 Amateur career


  • 2 Professional career


  • 3 Professional wins (3)


    • 3.1 LPGA Tour wins (2)


    • 3.2 Futures Tour wins (1)




  • 4 Major championships


    • 4.1 Wins (1)


    • 4.2 Results timeline


    • 4.3 Summary




  • 5 LPGA Tour career summary


  • 6 Futures Tour summary


  • 7 References


  • 8 External links





Amateur career


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.



Professional career


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.[2] 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.[3]


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.[4]


On 1 April 2012, Yoo won her first major title, the Kraft Nabisco Championship. I.K. Kim had a one-foot putt on the final hole for the win but missed it, resulted in a tie with Yoo and a sudden death playoff. On the first hole of the playoff, Yoo won with a 20-foot birdie putt.[5]


Among her fellow South Koreans on the LPGA Tour, Yoo is known as 'Course Clown'.[6]



Professional wins (3)



LPGA Tour wins (2)








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































No.
Date
Tournament
Winning score
To par
Margin of
victory
Runner-up
Winner's
share ($)
1
23 May 2010

Sybase Match Play Championship
3 and 1

United States Angela Stanford
375,000
2
1 Apr 2012

Kraft Nabisco Championship
69-69-72-69=275
−9
Playoff

South Korea I.K. Kim
300,000

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–2)































No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1
2009

P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship

South Korea Jiyai Shin
United States Angela Stanford
Shin won with birdie on second extra hole
2
2012

Kraft Nabisco Championship

South Korea I.K. Kim
Won with birdie on first extra hole
3
2015

Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic

Thailand Ariya Jutanugarn
South Korea Kim Sei-young
Kim won with birdie on first extra hole


Futures Tour wins (1)























No.
Date
Tournament
Winning score
To par
Margin of
victory
Runner-up
Winner's
share ($)
1
14 Aug 2005

Betty Puskar Golf Classic
67-69-68=204
−12
2 strokes

United States Brandi Jackson
9,800


Major championships



Wins (1)

















Year Championship Winning score Margin Runner-up
2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship −9 (69-69-72-69=275) Playoff1

South Korea I.K. Kim

1 Defeated I.K. Kim in a sudden death playoff with birdie on first extra hole



Results timeline


Results not in chronological order before 2018.





























































































Tournament 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

ANA Inspiration
DNP
CUT
DNP
T12
CUT
T62

1
CUT
T55
CUT
T18
T35
T16

U.S. Women's Open
DNP
CUT
CUT
33
CUT
T25
T32
CUT
CUT
CUT
CUT
DNP
CUT

Women's PGA Championship
CUT
WD
T77
T49
T25
T20
T15
T5
CUT
CUT
CUT
CUT
CUT

Women's British Open
T36
CUT
T46
T33
T31
T7
T47
T25
CUT
T24
CUT
T39
DNP

The Evian Championship ^

CUT
T36
T29
CUT
T64
DNP

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

DNP = did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

WD = withdrew

T = tied

Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.



Summary
















































































Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
ANA Inspiration 1 0 0 1 1 4 11 7
U.S. Women's Open 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 3
Women's PGA Championship 0 0 0 1 1 4 13 6
Women's British Open 0 0 0 0 1 3 12 9
The Evian Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3
Totals 1 0 0 2 3 12 52 28


  • Most consecutive cuts made – 9 (2010 British Open – 2012 British Open)

  • Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2011 British Open – 2012 Kraft Nabisco)



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
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
22
18
1
0
0
3
1
655,832
16
71.77
27

2011
21
16
0
0
0
6
4
476,672
25
72.04
29

2012
23
22
1
1
0
4
1
781,587
17
71.66
28

2013
25
20
0
0
0
4
T5
383,748
39
71.50
28

2014
26
18
0
0
0
1
T8
261,351
61
72.06
58

2015
25
15
0
1
0
2
T2
340,324
53
71.99
55

2016
21
9
0
0
0
1
T8
125,421
91
72.54
92

2017
22
17
0
0
0
2
T6
235,898
72
71.69
68

  • official as of 2017 season[7]

*Includes matchplay and other events without a cut.



Futures Tour summary



























Year Tournaments
played
Cuts
made
Wins Top 10s Best
finish
Earnings
($)
Money
list rank
Scoring
average
Scoring
rank
2005
18
18
1
10
1
42,007
5
71.42
6


References





  1. ^ "LPGA 2013 Player Guide – Sun Young Yoo". LPGA. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "Yoo Victorious In Morgantown". 14 August 2005. Retrieved 13 September 2009.


  3. ^ "Shin wins in Arkansas". The New York Times. Associated Press. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2012.


  4. ^ "Yoo wins Sybase Match Play Title". ESPN. Associated Press. 23 May 2010.


  5. ^ "Sun-Young Yoo wins Kraft Nabisco". ESPN. Associated Press. 1 April 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2012.


  6. ^ Crouse, Karen (2 November 2008). "A Culture Clash for South Korean Players on the L.P.G.A. Tour". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 September 2009.


  7. ^ "Sun Young Yoo Stats". LPGA. Retrieved 22 November 2017.




External links








  • Yoo Sun-young at the LPGA Tour official site


  • Yoo Sun-young at the Futures Tour official site


  • Yoo Sun-young at the Women's World Golf Rankings official site

  • Profile at Yahoo! Sports

  • Biography on seoulsisters.com









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