| Inbee Park 박인비 | |||||||||||||
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.jpg) Park at the 2013 Women's British Open | |||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||
| Born | 12 July 1988 Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | ||||||||||||
| Sporting nationality |  South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Residence | Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.[1] | ||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Nam Ki-hyeop (m. 2014) | ||||||||||||
| Children | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Career | |||||||||||||
| College | Kwangwoon University | ||||||||||||
| Turned professional | 2006 | ||||||||||||
| Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2007) | ||||||||||||
| Former tour(s) | Futures Tour (2006) | ||||||||||||
| Professional wins | 31 | ||||||||||||
| Number of wins by tour | |||||||||||||
| LPGA Tour | 21 | ||||||||||||
| Ladies European Tour | 3 | ||||||||||||
| LPGA of Japan Tour | 4 | ||||||||||||
| LPGA of Korea Tour | 1 | ||||||||||||
| ALPG Tour | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Other | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Best results in LPGA major championships (wins: 7) | |||||||||||||
| Chevron Championship | Won: 2013 | ||||||||||||
| Women's PGA C'ship | Won: 2013, 2014, 2015 | ||||||||||||
| U.S. Women's Open | Won: 2008, 2013 | ||||||||||||
| Women's British Open | Won: 2015 | ||||||||||||
| Evian Championship | T8: 2015, 2018, 2019 | ||||||||||||
| Achievements and awards | |||||||||||||
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Medal record | |||||||||||||
| Inbee Park | |
| Hangul | 박인비 |
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| Hanja | 朴仁妃 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Inbi |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Inbi |
Inbee Park (Korean: 박인비; Hanja: 朴仁妃, pronounced [pɐɡinbi] or [pɐk̚] [inbi]; born 12 July 1988) is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour. She has been the number one ranked player in the Women's World Golf Rankings for four separate runs: April 2013 to June 2014,[2] October 2014 to February 2015,[3] June 2015 to October 2015, and from April to July 2018.
Park has won seven major championships in her career, including three consecutive major wins during the 2013 season, becoming only the fourth LPGA Tour player to win three majors in a calendar year. She is the youngest player to win the U.S. Women's Open and the second player, after Annika Sorenstam, to win the Women's PGA Championship three years in a row. Park is only the seventh player to win four different majors during her career and capture a career Grand Slam. In 2016, she won the first Olympic gold medal since 1900 in the women's individual tournament. Park has endorsement deals with KB Financial Group, Srixon, Panasonic, Lynx, Jeju Samdasoo & Mercedes-Benz.
- ^ Golf Channel - LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship
- ^ "Rolex Rankings". Rolex Rankings. 15 April 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- ^ "Inbee Park to take over No. 1 spot". ESPN. Associated Press. 24 October 2014.