Wang Jeung-hun

Wang Jeung-hun
Personal information
Born (1995-09-07) 7 September 1995 (age 29)
Seoul, South Korea
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Sporting nationality South Korea
Career
Turned professional2012
Current tour(s)Asian Tour
Former tour(s)European Tour
PGA Tour China
Professional wins4
Highest ranking39 (29 January 2017)[1]
(as of 3 November 2024)
Number of wins by tour
European Tour3
Asian Tour1
Sunshine Tour1
Other1
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentCUT: 2017
PGA ChampionshipCUT: 2016, 2017
U.S. OpenCUT: 2017
The Open ChampionshipT60: 2024
Achievements and awards
Sir Henry Cotton
Rookie of the Year
2016

Wang Jeung-hun or Wang Jung-hoon (Korean: 왕정훈; born 7 September 1995) is a South Korean professional golfer. He plays on the European and Asian Tours. He is from Seoul, South Korea.

In 2016, he won the European Tour's Trophée Hassan II on a sponsor exemption.[2] He made a birdie on the second extra hole of a sudden-death playoff to defeat Nacho Elvira. The following week, he won again at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, a co-sanctioned event on the European, Sunshine and Asian Tours. He claimed a one stroke victory over Siddikur Rahman. His third European Tour win came at the 2017 Commercial Bank Qatar Masters where he beat Joakim Lagergren and Jaco van Zyl in a playoff.

Prior to the European and Asian Tours, he played on PGA Tour China and won the tour's first event in 2014.

  1. ^ "Week 04 2017 Ending 29 Jan 2017" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Jeunghun Wang – Wins". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 8 May 2016.