Jenny Bae (golfer)

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Jenny Bae
Personal information
Born (2001-08-25) August 25, 2001 (age 23)
Suwanee, Georgia, U.S.
Height5 ft 3 in (160 cm)
Sporting nationalityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Career
College University of Georgia
Turned professional2023
Current tour(s) LPGA Tour (joined 2025)
Former tour(s) Epson Tour (joined 2023)
Professional wins3
Number of wins by tour
Epson Tour3
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship CUT: 2025
Women's PGA C'ship T47: 2025
U.S. Women's Open DNP
Women's British Open CUT: 2025
Evian Championship T59: 2025
Achievements and awards
Inkster Award 2023

Jenny Bae (born August 25, 2001) is an American professional golfer and LPGA Tour player. [1]

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Amateur career

Bae was born in Suwanee, Georgia. She won the 2018 Georgia Junior Championship in record-setting fashion, shooting a 9-under 207 to win by 10 strokes. She was named the 2018 Georgia Player of the Year as a junior, after earning medalist honors at the state championships representing Collins Hill High School. [2]

Bae played her college golf at the University of Georgia from January 2019 to 2023. In her final season she was named first-team All-American and was ranked ranked 5th by GolfStat and Golfweek. She received the Juli Inkster Award as the top female collegiate golfer, and was a finalist for the Annika Award, the WGCA Ping National Player of the Year, and the Honda Sports Award. [2]

In 2023, she lost a playoff to Rose Zhang at the Augusta National Women's Amateur. [3]

Professional career

Bae turned professional after graduating in 2023 and joined the Epson Tour, where she won two events back-to-back in her second and third starts. [4] She made her LPGA debut at the 2023 Portland Classic. [5]

In 2024, she won her third title at the Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout, and finished 7th on the Race for the Card at the end of the season, to gain a fully exempt card on the LPGA Tour for the 2025 season. [6]

Amateur wins

Source: [7]

Professional wins (3)

Epson Tour wins (3)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreTo parMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-upWinner's
share ($)
1Jul 16, 2023 Hartford HealthCare Women's Championship 69-66-70=205−11Playoff Flag of the Republic of China.svg Ssu-Chia Cheng
Flag of South Korea.svg Kang Min-ji 		30,000
2Jul 23, 2023 Twin Bridges Championship 65-69-73=207−6Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Jessica Porvasnik 30,000
3Sep 22, 2024 Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout 66-70-73=209−71 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Therese Warner
Flag of the United States.svg Lauren Stephenson
Flag of the United States.svg Hailee Cooper 		50,625

Results in LPGA majors

Tournament2025
Chevron Championship CUT
U.S. Women's Open
Women's PGA Championship T47
The Evian Championship T59
Women's British Open CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
T = tied

References

  1. ↑ "Jenny Bae – Bio". Epson Tour. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Jenny Bae – Bio" (PDF). University of Georgia Athletics. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Georgia's Jenny Bae the runner-up at Augusta National Women's Amateur". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. April 1, 2023. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
  4. ↑ Bohannan, Larry (March 1, 2024). "What's it like getting mentored by an LPGA Hall of Famer? Jenny Bae found out on a recent trip". Golfweek. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
  5. ↑ Agrawal, Meeth (September 1, 2023). "LPGA debut at Portland Classic". Sportskeeda. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Meet the 2024 Epson Tour Graduates". LPGA Tour. October 6, 2024. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Jenny Bae". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
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