Wang Jeung-hun | |||
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Personal information | |||
Born | Seoul, South Korea | 7 September 1995||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
Sporting nationality | South Korea | ||
Career | |||
Turned professional | 2012 | ||
Current tour(s) | Asian Tour | ||
Former tour(s) | European Tour PGA Tour China | ||
Professional wins | 4 | ||
Highest ranking | 39 (29 January 2017)[1] (as of 3 November 2024) | ||
Number of wins by tour | |||
European Tour | 3 | ||
Asian Tour | 1 | ||
Sunshine Tour | 1 | ||
Other | 1 | ||
Best results in major championships | |||
Masters Tournament | CUT: 2017 | ||
PGA Championship | CUT: 2016, 2017 | ||
U.S. Open | CUT: 2017 | ||
The Open Championship | T60: 2024 | ||
Achievements and awards | |||
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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.