Woon-jung "Chella" Choi (born 25 August 1990)
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.
Choi played on the Duramed Futures Tour
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in 2008 with a best finish of T-2 at the Bright House Networks Open The Bright House Networks Open was an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the Futures Tour, the LPGA Tour's developmental tour. The event was part of the Futures Tour's schedule from 1998 through 2008. From 1998 through 2003, it ...
. She earned her 2009 LPGA Tour
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card at LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament
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, having to earn her card through a playoff.
Her first professional victory came on 19 July 2015, at the LPGA Tour's Marathon Classic
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, where she defeated Jang Ha-na
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in a playoff. The win happened after seven years and 157 LPGA Tour events. For the first eight years of Choi's professional career, her father was her caddie and vowed to remain until she won.
Professional wins (1)
LPGA Tour (1)
LPGA Tour playoff record (1–1)
Results in LPGA majors
''Results not in chronological order before 2023.''
^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied
Summary
*Most consecutive cuts made – 11 (2015 WPGA – 2017 WPGA)
*Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2013 WPGA – 2013 Evian)
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South Korean female golfers
LPGA Tour golfers
Golfers from Jacksonville, Florida
Sportspeople from Daegu
1990 births
Living people
20th-century South Korean women
21st-century South Korean women
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