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Fairways and Greens
New Pics of Mi Hyun at the Wendy's
Seoul Sisters fan 'Ponyboy' was at the Wendy's Championship for Children
and followed Mi Hyun Kim around on practice day. He sent us these photos.
Enjoy!
The Futures Tour season has come to an end, and two Korean players have earned fully exempt cards for the 2004 LPGA season. Soo Young Moon, the 19 year old who has nonexempt status on the LPGA and is thus the second youngest player on tour, decided this year to focus on the Futures Tour. It was a good choice. She ended up second on the Futures Tour money list and won the Futures Tour's Rookie of the Year award. She collected two victories, three seconds, and nine top tens in 16 starts, and made the LPGA despite a car accident that had put her out of action for a few weeks earlier in the season. Finishing in fourth place was Ju Kim. Kim had finished but $210 out of a card, also in fourth place, in 2001; but in 2003, the top five get cards (before only the top three did), so this time her performance was good enough to earn full exemption. She had a win and 8 top tens in 2003. Congratulations, ladies!
Ju Kim and Soo Young Moon
Jane Park runner up at US Women's Championship
Much like the US Girl's Championship held a few weeks ago, the US Women's
Championship, one of the top events in women's amateur golf, yielded two
Koreans in the final four. In Bee-Park, the sensational junior player
who had finished as the runner up at the Girl's Championship, was matched
against former NCAA champion Virada Nirapathpongporn, while Jane Park,
another talented Korean-American junior player (16 years old) from California,
went against Paula Creamer. Jane won her match despite great play from
Creamer, thanks to some of the best putting you could hope to see. Time
and again she saved par or made birdies from a distance, thoroughly demoralizing
her opponent. In-Bee, meanwhile, put up a good fight but was not able
to best the talented Nirapathpongporn. In the finals, the score seesawed
back and forth all day, first Jane then Virada gaining the upper hand.
Eventually, though, Virada took control and won. But Jane Park, who had
won a prestigious junior event just the week before and had also done
well at the Juniors and the US Women's Open (where she finished 30th),
has established herself as yet another Korean player to watch over the
next few years.
Jane Park battled to a runner-up finish
AP Photo/Chris Gardner
Grace's hair is getting some attention
these days!
Grace gets new advertising contract
Grace Park has signed with Proctor and Gamble to appear in commercials
for Pantene shampoo. Apparently a commercial has already been shot with
her and will begin appearing within the month. She earned 200 million
won (around $180,000) for the ads, which will be shown over the next 9
months. The article I read was nonspecific about whether the ads would
be shown only in Korea or if they would also be shown in the States.
Money List
Another great two weeks for Hee-Won Han, as she won a second time, collected
another second place, and moved to fifth on the money list. Se Ri, meanwhile,
took advantage of the idle Grace Park and, with a win at the Jamie Farr
Kroger Classic, moved back into second on the money list. This also marks
the third straight year she has exceeded the 1 million dollar mark in
earnings. Mi Hyun Kim's finish at the Farr moved her back into the top
20 as well.
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2. |
Se Ri Pak | $1,110,958.00 | (+$150,000) |
| 3. | Grace Park | $1,009,009.00 | (+$0) |
| 5. | Hee-Won Han | $897,594.00 | (+$244,364) |
| 20. | Mi Hyun Kim | $386,513.00 | (+$62,209) |
| 24. | Jeong Jang | $367,290.00 | (+$5,364) |
| 32. | Soo-Yun Kang | $259,500.00 | (+$8,823) |
| 41. | Christina Kim | $184,314.00 | (+$2,229) |
| 42. | Young Kim | $176,445.00 | (+$6,676) |
| 50. | Gloria Park | $149,014.00 | (+$7,907) |
| 69. | Jung Yeon Lee | $86,229.00 | (+$26,438) |
| 74. | Young-A Yang | $80,364.00 | (+$7,864) |
