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{{Short description|South Korean golfer (born 1986)}}
{{Short description|South Korean golfer (born 1986)}}
{{Eastern name order|Seo Hee-kyung}}
{{Eastern name order|Seo Hee-kyung}}
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| name = Hee-kyung Seo<br><small>서희경</small>
| name = Hee-kyung Seo<br><small>서희경</small>
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| fullname = Hee-Kyung Seo
| fullname = Hee-Kyung Seo
| nickname = Supermodel of the Fairways
| nickname = Supermodel of the Fairways
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|7|8|df=yes}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|7|8}}
| birth_place = [[Yongsan District]], [[Seoul]], South Korea
| birth_place = [[Yongsan District]], [[Seoul]], South Korea
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'''Hee-kyung Seo''' ({{lang-ko|서희경}}, born 8 July 1986), also known as '''Seo Hee-kyung''', is a former South Korean female professional [[golf]]er playing on the [[LPGA Tour]] and on [[LPGA of Korea Tour]]. She won the [[LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year]] award in 2011.
'''Hee-kyung Seo''' ({{lang-ko|서희경}}, born July 8, 1986), also known as '''Seo Hee-kyung''', is a former South Korean female professional [[golf]]er playing on the [[LPGA Tour]] 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]] where she finished six shots ahead of [[Inbee Park]].<ref>[https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/08/136_63249.html Seo Hee-kyung Coasts to Kia Classic Title]</ref>
After winning three LPGA of Korea Tour major championships in 2009, Seo notched her first LPGA Tour triumph at the 2010 [[Kia Classic]] where she finished six shots ahead of [[Inbee Park]].<ref>[https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/08/136_63249.html Seo Hee-kyung Coasts to Kia Classic Title]</ref>
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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]].
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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.koreatimesus.com/2011-lpga-rookie-of-the-year-retires/ |title=2011 LPGA Rookie of the Year retires |newspaper=[[The Korea Times]] |accessdate=2 April 2017}}</ref>
On November 30, 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 August 15, 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.koreatimesus.com/2011-lpga-rookie-of-the-year-retires/ |title=2011 LPGA Rookie of the Year retires |newspaper=[[The Korea Times]] |accessdate=April 2, 2017}}</ref>


==Professional wins==
==Professional wins==
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|align=right|28 Mar [[2010 LPGA Tour|2010]]
|align=right|Mar 28 [[2010 LPGA Tour|2010]]
|[[Kia Classic]]
|[[Kia Classic]]
|−12 (70-67-69-70=276)
|−12 (70-67-69-70=276)
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|30 Aug 2008
|August 30, 2008
|[[High1 Cup SBS Charity Ladies Open]]
|[[High1 Cup SBS Charity Ladies Open]]
|−8 (68-68-72=208)
|−8 (68-68-72=208)
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|align=center|2
|7 Sep 2008
|September 7, 2008
|[[KB Star Tour 3rd Tournament at Cheongwon]]
|[[KB Star Tour 3rd Tournament at Cheongwon]]
|−7 (68-69-72=207)
|−7 (68-69-72=207)
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|align=center|3
|13 Sep 2008
|September 13, 2008
|[[Binhai Open]]
|[[Binhai Open]]
|−9 (70-66-71=207)
|−9 (70-66-71=207)
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|align=center|4
|align=center|4
|12 Oct 2008
|October 12, 2008
|[[Gabia-Interburgo Masters]]
|[[Gabia-Interburgo Masters]]
|−11 (70-69-69=208)
|−11 (70-69-69=208)
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|align=center|5
|align=center|5
|16 Nov 2008
|November 16, 2008
|[[Saint Four Ladies Masters in Jeju]]^
|[[Saint Four Ladies Masters in Jeju]]^
|−14 (69-67-66=202)
|−14 (69-67-66=202)
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|align=center|6
|align=center|6
|23 Nov 2008
|November 23, 2008
|[[ADT CAPS Championship]]
|[[ADT CAPS Championship]]
|−2 (78-72-64=214)
|−2 (78-72-64=214)
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|align=center|7
|align=center|7
|17 Apr 2009
|April 17, 2009
|[[MBC Tour Lotte Mart Ladies Open]]
|[[MBC Tour Lotte Mart Ladies Open]]
|−6 (71-72-67=210)
|−6 (71-72-67=210)
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|align=center|8
|3 May 2009
|May 3, 2009
|'''[[Taeyoung Cup Korea Women's Open]]'''
|'''[[Taeyoung Cup Korea Women's Open]]'''
|−9 (70-71-66=207)
|−9 (70-71-66=207)
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|18 Oct 2009
|October 18, 2009
|'''[[Hite Cup Championship]]'''
|'''[[Hite Cup Championship]]'''
|−9 (72-71-68-68=279)
|−9 (72-71-68-68=279)
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|align=center|10
|25 Oct 2009
|October 25, 2009
|'''[[KB Star Tour Grand Final at Incheon]]'''
|'''[[KB Star Tour Grand Final at Incheon]]'''
|−16 (69-66-68-69=272)
|−16 (69-66-68-69=272)
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|align=center|11
|22 Nov 2009
|November 22, 2009
|[[ADT CAPS Championship]]
|[[ADT CAPS Championship]]
|−6 (73-71-66=210)
|−6 (73-71-66=210)
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|[[2010 LPGA Tour|2010]]<ref name="2010stats">{{cite web |publisher=Yahoo Sports |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/golf/lpga/players/Hee+Kyung+Seo/8860/log?season=2010 |title=Hee Kyung Seo 2010 Record |accessdate=17 November 2011}}</ref>
|[[2010 LPGA Tour|2010]]<ref name="2010stats">{{cite web |publisher=Yahoo Sports |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/golf/lpga/players/Hee+Kyung+Seo/8860/log?season=2010 |title=Hee Kyung Seo 2010 Record |accessdate=November 17, 2011}}</ref>
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* Seo was not a member of the LPGA Tour prior to 2011. Earnings and records for those years are not official.
* 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<ref>{{cite web |accessdate=25 November 2015 |title=Hee Kyung Seo Stats |publisher=LPGA |url=http://www.lpga.com/players/hee-kyung-seo/93382/stats}}</ref>
* official as of the 2015 season<ref>{{cite web |accessdate=November 25, 2015 |title=Hee Kyung Seo Stats |publisher=LPGA |url=http://www.lpga.com/players/hee-kyung-seo/93382/stats}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 17:18, 15 October 2024

The native form of this personal name is Seo Hee-kyung. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Hee-kyung Seo
서희경
Seo at the 2010 Women's British Open
Personal information
Full nameHee-Kyung Seo
NicknameSupermodel of the Fairways
Born (1986-07-08) July 8, 1986 (age 38)
Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Sporting nationality South Korea
ResidenceOrlando, Florida, U.S.
SpouseJung-hyun Kook
Career
Turned professional2006
Current tour(s)LPGA Tour (joined 2011)
LPGA of Korea (joined 2006)
Professional wins12
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour1
Ladies European Tour1
LPGA of Korea Tour11
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipT4: 2012
Women's PGA C'shipT34: 2011
U.S. Women's Open2nd: 2011
Women's British OpenT5: 2010
Evian ChampionshipT64: 2013
Achievements and awards
LPGA of Korea Tour
leading money winner		2009
LPGA Tour
Rookie of the Year		2011
Hee-kyung Seo
Hangul
서희경
Revised RomanizationSeo Hui-Kyeong
McCune–ReischauerSŏ Hŭi-gyŏng

Hee-kyung Seo (Template:Lang-ko, born July 8, 1986), also known as Seo Hee-kyung, is a former South Korean female professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour 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 where she finished six shots ahead of Inbee Park.[1]

Seo had a close call in the 2011 U.S. Women's Open 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 November 30, 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 August 15, 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.[2]

Professional wins

LPGA Tour (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 Mar 28 2010 Kia Classic −12 (70-67-69-70=276) 6 strokes South Korea Inbee Park

LPGA Tour playoff record (0–4)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 2011 U.S. Women's Open South Korea So Yeon Ryu Lost three hole aggregate playoff:
Ryu: 3-4-3=10 (−2), Seo: 3-6-4=13 (+1)
2 2012 Women's Australian Open Paraguay Julieta Granada
United States Jessica Korda
United States Stacy Lewis
United States Brittany Lincicome
South Korea So Yeon Ryu 		Korda won with birdie on second extra hole
3 2012 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic South Korea Chella Choi
United States Brittany Lang
South Korea Inbee Park 		Lang won with birdie on third extra hole
Park eliminated by birdie on second hole
Choi eliminated by birdie on first hole
4 2013 LPGA KEB-HanaBank Championship South Korea Amy Yang Lost to birdie on first extra hole

KLPGA Tour (11)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 August 30, 2008 High1 Cup SBS Charity Ladies Open −8 (68-68-72=208) 2 strokes South Korea Inbee Park
2 September 7, 2008 KB Star Tour 3rd Tournament at Cheongwon −7 (68-69-72=207) 1 stroke South Korea Ha-Neul Kim
South Korea Hye-Youn Kim
3 September 13, 2008 Binhai Open −9 (70-66-71=207) 5 strokes China Taoli Yang
England Danielle Montgomery
4 October 12, 2008 Gabia-Interburgo Masters −11 (70-69-69=208) 3 strokes South Korea Ha-Neul Kim
South Korea He-Yong Choi
South Korea Hyun-Ji Kim
5 November 16, 2008 Saint Four Ladies Masters in Jeju^ −14 (69-67-66=202) 2 strokes South Korea Sun Ju Ahn
6 November 23, 2008 ADT CAPS Championship −2 (78-72-64=214) 3 strokes South Korea Ae-Ree Pyun
South Korea Hye-Jung Kim
7 April 17, 2009 MBC Tour Lotte Mart Ladies Open −6 (71-72-67=210) 1 stroke South Korea Sun Ju Ahn,
South Korea Ilhee Lee
8 May 3, 2009 Taeyoung Cup Korea Women's Open −9 (70-71-66=207) 1 stroke South Korea Bo Kyung Kim
9 October 18, 2009 Hite Cup Championship −9 (72-71-68-68=279) 5 strokes South Korea Na Yeon Choi
10 October 25, 2009 KB Star Tour Grand Final at Incheon −16 (69-66-68-69=272) 1 stroke South Korea Jang Ha-na (amateur)
11 November 22, 2009 ADT CAPS Championship −6 (73-71-66=210) 3 strokes South Korea Jeong-Eun Lee

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.

Tournament 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
ANA Inspiration T21 T33 T4 T13 CUT
Women's PGA Championship T34 CUT CUT T41
U.S. Women's Open T48 T62 2 T18 T25
Women's British Open T5 T22 T26 T25
The Evian Championship ^ T64
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
T = tied

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
ANA Inspiration 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 4
Women's PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2
U.S. Women's Open 0 1 0 1 1 3 5 5
Women's British Open 0 0 0 1 1 3 4 4
The Evian Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals 0 1 0 3 3 9 19 16
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 9 (2009 U.S. Open – 2012 Kraft Nabisco)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (three times)

LPGA Tour career summary

Year Tournaments
played		 Cuts
made		 Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish		 Earnings ($) Money
list rank		 Scoring
average		 Scoring
rank
2006 1 1 0 0 0 0 16 17,680 n/a 72.00 n/a
2008 1 1 0 0 0 0 17 19,920 n/a 72.00 n/a
2009 5 4 0 0 0 0 15 73,659 n/a 73.31 n/a
2010[3] 6 6 1 0 0 2 1 369,089 n/a 72.96 n/a
2011 21 18 0 1 0 3 2 619,429 21 71.78 21
2012 25 21 0 2 0 8 T2 600,403 22 71.57 25
2013 22 18 0 1 0 3 2 446,373 33 71.74 38
2014 7 4 0 0 0 0 T29 30,315 128 73.43 n/a
2015 7 5 0 0 0 0 T41 34,050 123 73.64 n/a
  • 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[4]

References

  1. ^ Seo Hee-kyung Coasts to Kia Classic Title
  2. ^ "2011 LPGA Rookie of the Year retires". The Korea Times. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
  3. ^ "Hee Kyung Seo 2010 Record". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
  4. ^ "Hee Kyung Seo Stats". LPGA. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
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