Park Sung-hyun 박성현 | |||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||
Born | Seoul, South Korea | 21 September 1993||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||
Sporting nationality | South Korea | ||||||||
Residence | Orlando, Florida, U.S.[1] | ||||||||
Career | |||||||||
Turned professional | 2012 | ||||||||
Current tour(s) | KLPGA Tour (joined 2014) LPGA Tour (joined 2017) | ||||||||
Professional wins | 18 | ||||||||
Number of wins by tour | |||||||||
LPGA Tour | 7 | ||||||||
LPGA of Korea Tour | 10 | ||||||||
Other | 1 | ||||||||
Best results in LPGA major championships (wins: 2) | |||||||||
Chevron Championship | T6: 2016 | ||||||||
Women's PGA C'ship | Won: 2018 | ||||||||
U.S. Women's Open | Won: 2017 | ||||||||
Women's British Open | 8th: 2019 | ||||||||
Evian Championship | T2: 2016 | ||||||||
Achievements and awards | |||||||||
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Park Sung-hyun | |
Hangul | 박성현 |
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Hanja | 朴城炫[2] |
Revised Romanization | Bak Seonghyeon |
McCune–Reischauer | Pak Sŏng-hyŏn |
Park Sung-hyun (born 21 September 1993), also known as Sung Hyun Park, is a South Korean professional golfer playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She has won two LPGA majors championships, the 2017 U.S. Women's Open and the 2018 Women's PGA Championship. She was the number one ranked golfer in the Women's World Golf Rankings for a single week in 2017 and has returned to the number one spot in 2018 and 2019.