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Hyo Joo Kim South Korean Golf Player Profile, Biography And Pictures

Hyo Joo Kim Profile

Name: Hyo Joo Kim
Birthday: February 20, 1994
Rookie Year On LPGA: Amateur
Birth Place: South Korea
Residence: South Korea
Height: Unknown
Nick Names: None Known
How's her English?: Not known
Biography:
Hyo Joo Kim is an amateur who began making big noise with her talent as a 14 year old in 2009.
That year, she played brilliantly at two KLPGA Major championships. At the Hite Cup, she was one of the leaders after the first round, and was even fifth as late as the start of the fourth round. At that point she stumbled somewhat, but still compiled an impressive T-13th result. At the KB Star Tour Grand Final, she was again in the top five after the first round, but ended up tied for 34th.
In 2010, she led Korea to a victory at the Queen Sirikit Cup, an important team event. She also won individual honors thanks to a final round 65. She was 8 shots ahead of the next player in the field. Later in the year, she finished tied for third at the Rush & Cash Charity Classic on the KLPGA tour.
Despite her quality amateur results, she was not one of the three golfers chosen to represent Korea at the 2010 Asian Games. That squad won the team gold and individual gold without her, showing just how deep they are.
Hyo Joo continued to be a top junior golfer over the next two seasons. In July of 2010, she won the R&A Junior Open Girls golf title in Fife, Scotland, by three shots; Korean New Zealander Cecilia Cho was third.
In 2011, she was again on Korea's squad for the Queen Sirikit Cup. She finished second, one shot out of the gold medal spot, but Korea won the team gold by four shots. Later in the year, she achieved a major coup by claiming the Callaway Junior World Golf Championship, winning the 15-17 year old division by five shots. She was not able to qualify for the US Women's Amateur later that summer, however, only achieving alternate status.
She had some good results on the KLPGA tour in 2011. In June, she finished tied for 5th at the Woori Investment & Securities Ladies Championship. She led the Korean Women's Open after the first and second round, but a poor weekend reduced her to 15th. She also had a 9th at the Lotte Mart Women's Open.

Hyo Joo Kim

Lydia Ko Youngest Golf Player Profile, Biography, Pictures And Wallpapers

Lydia Ko Profile

Birthday: April 24, 1997
Name: Lydia Ko
Rookie Year On LPGA: Amateur
Birth Place: South Korea
Residence: Auckland, New Zealand
Height: Unknown
Nick Names: None Known
How's her English?: Fluent
Biography:

Lydia Ko was born in South Korea, and moved to New Zealand with her family when she was 6 years old. She had hit balls in Korea on practice ranges, but took up the game in earnest upon arriving in her new home. Within a few years, she became one of the top junior golfers in New Zealand.
In 2009, Lydia lost in the finals of the New Zealand National Amateur Golf Championship, losing to fellow Korean expatriate teenager Cecilia Cho in the final.
Ko continued to stun people everywhere with her talent in 2010. As a 12 year old she finished tied for 7th at the New Zealand Women's Golf Championship, just five shots behind winner Laura Davies. In April, she helped lead New Zealand to a second place finish at the Sirikit Cup, an important team event. She finished 4th in the individual standings.
Ko's star continued to rise in 2011. She came agonizingly close to winning a professional event on the ALPG in January. She was leading with one hole to go but missed a three foot par putt on the final hole to lose by one shot. Had she won, at age 13, she would have broken the record for youngest girl to win a professional golf event by THREE YEARS. At the LET's New Zealand Women's Golf Championship, she bettered her 2010 performance by finishing fourth, and finished tied for 12th at the Handa Australian Masters, another LET event.
By March she rose to the #3 women's world amateur ranking. At this point, her rivalry with good friend Cecilia Cho heated up. Ko claimed the Australian Stroke Play title by beating Cho in a two hole playoff, but lost the Australian Amateur Match Play in the quarterfinals.
Ko then won the New Zealand Stroke Play Championship, beating Cho by 9 shots. This event set up the draw for the New Zealand Match Play Championship, which once again ended up being a final matchup between Cho and Ko. And once again, Ko triumphed, beating her friend 4 and 3 in the final despite the fact Cho had won the event the two previous years. This allowed Ko to rise to #1 in the amateur rankings, knocking Cho down to #2. Ko became the first woman to ever hold both the Australian and New Zealand Stroke Play titles in the same year.
In May, Ko also won the Muriwai Ladies Open, beating a field of pros and amateurs. She then launched her first effort to play in the big European and American amateur events. She lost early in the British Women's Amateur, but claimed the co-medalist honors at the US Women's Amateur before falling in the second round of match play.
Expect to hear much more from this amazing talent in years to come!

Lydia Ko