Hee-kyung Seo ( ko, 서희경, born 8 July 1986), also known as Seo Hee-kyung, is a former
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...
n female professional
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
er playing on the
LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of week ...
and on
LPGA of Korea Tour. She won the
LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year award in 2011.
After winning three LPGA of Korea Tour major championships in 2009, Seo notched her first LPGA Tour triumph at the 2010
Kia Classic
The JTBC Classic Presented by Barbasol, formerly the Kia Classic, is a women's professional golf tournament in Southern California on the LPGA Tour. It debuted in 2010 at the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, then moved north for a year in ...
where she finished six shots ahead of
Inbee Park
Inbee Park (, or ; born 12 July 1988) is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour. She has been the number one ranked player in the Women's World Golf Rankings for four separate runs: April 2013 ...
.
Seo had a close call in the
2011 U.S. Women's Open
The 2011 U.S. Women's Open was the 66th U.S. Women's Open, played July 7–11 at The Broadmoor East Course in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was one of 13 national championships conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA). The cours ...
when she led by two shots with two holes to play, but she missed a 4 footer for par on the 71st hole, while
So Yeon Ryu birdied the 72nd hole, resulting in a playoff, which Ryu went on to win.
Seo also came close at the
2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship, where she led by three strokes at one point, but bogeys on the last four holes would result in her finishing two strokes back of winner
Sun Young Yoo.
On 30 November 2013, she married Junghoon Philip Kook (born 1979), an executive officer at DWS Asset Management based in Seoul, and gave a birth to their first son, Dohyun Philip Kook on 15 August 2014, on the Independence Day of Korea. Since then, they had two more sons, Dohoon Francis (born 2016) and Doheon Michael (born 2018). Seo officially retired from professional golf in November 2015 to spend more time with her family.
Professional wins
LPGA Tour (1)
LPGA Tour playoff record (0–4)
KLPGA Tour (11)
Tournaments in bold denotes major championships on KLPGA Tour.
^ Co-sanctioned with the
Ladies European Tour
Results in LPGA majors
''Results not in chronological order before 2015.''
CUT = missed the half-way cut
T = tied
Summary
*Most consecutive cuts made – 9 (2009 U.S. Open – 2012 Kraft Nabisco)
*Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (three times)
LPGA Tour career summary
* Seo was not a member of the LPGA Tour prior to 2011. Earnings and records for those years are not official.
* official as of the 2015 season
References
External links
*
Biography on seoulsisters.comHee-Kyung Seo bio and pictures
{{DEFAULTSORT:Seo, Hee-Kyung
South Korean female golfers
LPGA of Korea Tour golfers
LPGA Tour golfers
Sportspeople from Gyeonggi Province
People from Suwon
1986 births
Living people