Park In-Bee biography
Park In-Bee, (born July 12, 1988, Seoul, South Korea), South Korean golfer who in 2013 turned the second participant to win the primary three main tournaments of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) season: the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the LPGA Championship (later referred to as the Women’s PGA Championship), and the U.S. Women’s Open.
Park started enjoying golf in Seoul on the age of 10. Accompanied by her mom, she moved to the United States in 2000 to pursue her dream of constructing the LPGA Tour. She finally educated with famous golf teacher Butch Harmon, who helped information her early profession. As an newbie she was a right away standout. In 2002 she gained the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship and was named by the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) as its Player of the Year; she was runner-up on the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship in 2003 and 2005. Before turning skilled in 2006, she gained a complete of 9 AJGA occasions and was named a junior All-American 5 instances.
Park certified for the 2007 LPGA season and the next yr claimed her first main championship, the U.S. Women’s Open. At the age of 19 years, 11 months, and 17 days, Park was the youngest golfer ever to win that occasion. Several disappointing seasons adopted, nevertheless. Though Park continued to show in stable performances, it was not till 2012 that she once more gained an LPGA event. That yr she had victories on the Evian Masters (now often known as the Evian Championship) in France and the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia. She additionally positioned or tied for second at six occasions on the tour and obtained the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring common (70.212) for the season.
After profitable the Kraft Nabisco Championship in 2013, Park turned the world’s primary ranked girl participant. She then gained the LPGA Championship and the U.S. Women’s Open to hitch Babe Didrikson Zaharias (who achieved the feat in 1950) as the one gamers to seize the primary three main tournaments of the LPGA season. Park additionally turned the fourth golfer to have gained three LPGA majors in a calendar yr. Her bid to win an unprecedented 4 consecutive LPGA majors in the identical season ended when she completed tied for forty second on the Women’s British Open. Park was named the LPGA’s participant of the yr on the season’s finish.
In 2014 Park captured a second LPGA Championship title among the many three tournaments she gained that season. The following yr she gained her sixth and seventh main titles: the newly renamed Women’s PGA Championship (previously the LPGA Championship) and the Women’s British Open. At the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, Park gained a gold medal within the newly created girls’s golf occasion. In 2018 she captured her nineteenth victory on the LPGA Tour.