| Jenny Bae | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Born | August 25, 2001 Suwanee, Georgia, U.S. | ||
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (160 cm) | ||
| Sporting nationality |  United States | ||
| Career | |||
| College | University of Georgia | ||
| Turned professional | 2023 | ||
| Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2025) | ||
| Former tour(s) | Epson Tour (joined 2023) | ||
| Professional wins | 3 | ||
| Number of wins by tour | |||
| Epson Tour | 3 | ||
| Achievements and awards | |||
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Jenny Bae (born August 25, 2001) is an American professional golfer and LPGA Tour player. [1]
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]
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]
Source: [7]
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Winner's share ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jul 16, 2023 | Hartford HealthCare Women's Championship | 69-66-70=205 | −11 | Playoff |  Ssu-Chia Cheng  Kang Min-ji | 30,000 |
| 2 | Jul 23, 2023 | Twin Bridges Championship | 65-69-73=207 | −6 | Playoff |  Jessica Porvasnik | 30,000 |
| 3 | Sep 22, 2024 | Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout | 66-70-73=209 | −7 | 1 stroke | Therese Warner Lauren Stephenson Hailee Cooper | 50,625 |
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