Se Ri's Hall of Fame Career

1999:
June:
Se Ri finally wins for the first time in 1999, ending an eleven month winless drought. She captures the ShopRite Classic on Father's Day with her dad in attendance. She is 21.

July:
Se Ri successfully defends her Jamie Farr title by winning the largest playoff in LPGA history, a 6 player affair. She beats Karrie Webb, the top player on tour, in that playoff.

September:
Win #3 in 1999 at the Samsung Championship. Samsung is her main sponsor at the time. Again she beats Karrie Webb, who double bogeys the final hole to lose by one.

November:
Se Ri wins the Tour Championship, the final event of the year, in a playoff with, you guessed it, Karrie Webb. Her 8th career win in just two years. She finishes third on the money list. Hall of Fame Point total: 10.

2000:
January:
The season gets off to a horrible start when Se Ri is disqualified in her first LPGA tournament for signing an incorrect scorecard.

June:
2000 is proving to be a tough year for Se Ri. Yet by the summer, her game is heating up again. She has her best finish of the year this month at the McDonald's LPGA Championship, where she finishes third. The low point happens the next week, when she misses the cut at the ShopRite while trying to defend her title there.

Se Ri hugs Tree after winning her 8th title.

On the comeback trail: Se Ri
with her trophy from the
YourLife Vitamins Tournament

September:
Se Ri fires her long time caddie, Jeff Cable, aka Tree. She also starts working with a new swing coach, Tom Creavy, who used to work with her at the Leadbetter Academy.

November:
The season ends, and Se Ri Pak has her first winless campaign on the LPGA tour. She finishes 12th on the money list. Hall of Fame Point total: 10.

2001:
January:
Se Ri works with her new caddie, Colin Cann, for the first time. Auspiciously, she also wins for the first time in 14 months with a brilliant come from behind effort to blow away the field at the Your Life Vitamins LPGA Classic.

March:
Se Ri plays arguably the best tournament of her career, hunting down Annika Sorenstam, who has just shot the first 59 on the LPGA tour. In the end it is not enough, and she shoots 25 under par to finish second, 12 shots ahead of the third place finisher.

April:
Se Ri ends Annika's four tournament win streak by winning the Longs Drugs Challenge.

June:
Se Ri finishes second to Karrie Webb at the US Women's Open

July:
She wins her third event of the year, taking her third title in four years at the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic. Farr jokes that the member need to start paying her dues, because she owns the course!

August:
Se Ri pulls off a miracle comeback at the British Open to capture the third Major of her career. Mi Hyun Kim finishes second, the first 1-2 finish for Koreans at a Major in history. She takes over the lead on the money list.

September:
Se Ri wins her fifth event of the year by dominating the AFLAC Tournament of Champions. She still has a shot at catching Annika, who has retaken the money list lead..

October:
Se Ri loses in the finals of the Cisco World Ladies Match Play to Annika Sorenstam. It is a hard fought battle the whole way. Annika wins it one up.

Se Ri goes on to finish second on the money list to Annika. Hall of Fame Point total: 16.

Se Ri toughs out her third Major win at the
2001 British Open