In-Kyung Kim | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | In-Kyung Kim | ||
Nickname | I. K. | ||
Born | South Korea | 13 June 1988||
Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) | ||
Sporting nationality | South Korea | ||
Residence | Rancho Santa Fe, California, U.S. [1] | ||
Career | |||
Turned professional | 2006 | ||
Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2007) Ladies European Tour (joined 2010) | ||
Professional wins | 10 | ||
Number of wins by tour | |||
LPGA Tour | 7 | ||
Ladies European Tour | 4 | ||
Best results in LPGA major championships (wins: 1) | |||
Chevron Championship | 2nd: 2012 | ||
Women's PGA C'ship | T5: 2010 | ||
U.S. Women's Open | 2nd: 2013 | ||
Women's British Open | Won: 2017 | ||
Evian Championship | 6th: 2016 | ||
Achievements and awards | |||
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Kim In-Kyung | |
Hangul | 김인경 |
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Hanja | 金人卿 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Ingyeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim In-kyŏng |
Kim In-Kyung,also called In-Kyung Kim and I. K. Kim (born 13 June 1988),is a South Korean professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.
Kim was a member of the Korean National Team in 2003 and 2004 and won three tournaments on the International Junior Golf tour. In 2005,playing on the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA),she won the 2005 Hargray Junior Classic. Also in 2005,she won the U.S. Girls' Junior and was the medalist in the stroke play portion of the U.S. Women's Amateur.
Kim earned co-medalist honors at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament in Florida in December 2006 as an amateur to earn full exempt status for the 2007 season. [2] She turned professional immediately following the tournament.
In her rookie year of 2007 she had four top-10 finishes on the LPGA Tour. In 2008,she had seven top-10 finishes and claimed her first win at the Longs Drugs Challenge. [3]
In June 2009,she claimed her second career title with a one-shot win over compatriot Se Ri Pak to take the LPGA State Farm Classic in Illinois. [4] In December 2009 Kim won her third professional title,winning the Dubai Ladies Masters on the Ladies European Tour. [5]
Kim won her fourth professional title and third LPGA title at the 2010 Lorena Ochoa Invitational. The day after she won,she announced that she had donated her entire $220,000 winnings to charity:half to the Lorena Ochoa Foundation which funds educational programs for children in Mexico and the other half to an American charity. The donation amounted to nearly 20 percent of her total winnings to date for the 2010 season. [1] [6]
In 2010 Kim also won Rookie of the Year honors on the Ladies European Tour. She joined the LET in 2010 after winning the Dubai Ladies Masters in December 2009. In 2010,she had won €193,154.69 in four LET events,including three top-10 finishes. [7]
Currently,former PGA Tour caddy Michael Dunsmore carries Kim's bag. In early 2010,Kim bought a home in Rancho Santa Fe,California,a suburb north of San Diego. She practices at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club,where she is an honorary member. [1]
On the final day of the 2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship,Kim had a one-foot putt on the 18th green to seal her first major championship. The putt lipped out,forcing a playoff with Sun-Young Yoo,which Yoo won. This disappointment was followed by a relative dry spell for Kim on LPGA Tour which included two playoff losses,and one win on the European Ladies Tour in 2014. The LPGA dry spell ended in October 2016 when Kim won Reignwood LPGA Classic held in China. In 2017 Kim won three times on the LPGA Tour,including her first major title at the Women's British Open. [8]
Kim retired following the 2024 season. [9]
Legend |
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Major championships (1) |
Other LPGA Tour (6) |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner-up | Winner's share ($) |
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1 | 12 Oct 2008 | Longs Drugs Challenge | 67-69-69-73=278 | −10 | 3 strokes | Angela Stanford | 180,000 |
2 | 7 Jun 2009 | LPGA State Farm Classic | 69-68-69-65=271 | −17 | 1 stroke | Se Ri Pak | 255,000 |
3 | 14 Nov 2010 | Lorena Ochoa Invitational | 69-68-68-64=269 | −19 | 3 strokes | Suzann Pettersen | 220,000 |
4 | 2 Oct 2016 | Reignwood LPGA Classic | 70-64-68-66=268 | −24 | 1 stroke | Mi Jung Hur | 315,000 |
5 | 4 Jun 2017 | ShopRite LPGA Classic | 66-67-69=202 | −11 | 2 strokes | Anna Nordqvist | 225,000 |
6 | 23 Jul 2017 | Marathon Classic | 65-67-68-63=263 | −21 | 4 strokes | Lexi Thompson | 240,000 |
7 | 6 Aug 2017 | Women's British Open | 65-68-66-71=270 | −18 | 2 strokes | Jodi Ewart Shadoff | 504,821 |
LPGA Tour playoff record (0–5)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
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1 | 2007 | Wegmans LPGA | Lorena Ochoa | Lost to par on second extra hole |
2 | 2010 | Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic | Na Yeon Choi, Christina Kim Song-Hee Kim | Choi won with birdie on second extra hole |
3 | 2012 | Kraft Nabisco Championship | Sun Young Yoo | Lost to birdie on first extra hole |
4 | 2013 | Kia Classic | Beatriz Recari | Lost to birdie on second extra hole |
5 | 2014 | Portland Classic | Austin Ernst | Lost to par on first extra hole |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner-up | Winner's share (€) |
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1 | 12 Dec 2009 | Omega Dubai Ladies Masters | 70-65-67-68=270 | −18 | 3 strokes | Michelle Wie | 75,000 |
2 | 6 Jul 2014 | ISPS Handa Ladies European Masters | 71-68-63-68=270 | −18 | 5 strokes | Nikki Campbell | 75,000 |
3 | 11 Sep 2016 | ISPS Handa Ladies European Masters (2) | 67-70-71-63=271 | −17 | 5 strokes | Belén Mozo | 75,000 |
4 | 6 Aug 2017 | Women's British Open | 65-68-66-71=270 | −18 | 2 strokes | Jodi Ewart Shadoff | 431,180 |
Year | Championship | 54 holes | Winning score | Margin | Runner-up |
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2017 | Ricoh Women's British Open | 6 stroke lead | −18 (65-68-66-71=270) | 2 strokes | Jodi Ewart Shadoff |
Results not in chronological order.
Tournament | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
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Chevron Championship | CUT | T28 | T44 | ||
U.S. Women's Open | CUT | T61 | T3 | T3 | 4 |
Women's PGA Championship | T21 | CUT | T16 | T5 | |
Women's British Open | T42 | T9 | T20 | T3 |
Tournament | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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Chevron Championship | T10 | 2 | T55 | T39 | T51 | 49 | T27 | T30 | T4 | T64 |
U.S. Women's Open | T10 | CUT | 2 | T30 | T35 | CUT | CUT | T34 | ||
Women's PGA Championship | T12 | T25 | T22 | CUT | T30 | CUT | T8 | T14 | ||
The Evian Championship ^ | T19 | T27 | T16 | 6 | T10 | T11 | NT | |||
Women's British Open | T37 | T10 | T47 | CUT | T50 | 1 | T39 | T51 | CUT |
Tournament | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Chevron Championship | CUT | CUT | ||
U.S. Women's Open | T26 | T51 | ||
Women's PGA Championship | CUT | T21 | CUT | |
The Evian Championship ^ | CUT | |||
Women's British Open | T58 | CUT | 81 |
^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013.
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied
Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
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Chevron Championship | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 12 |
U.S. Women's Open | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 11 |
Women's PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 15 | 10 |
The Evian Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
Women's British Open | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 13 |
Totals | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 27 | 68 | 52 |
Year | Tournaments played | Cuts made | Wins | 2nds | 3rds | Top 10s | Best finish | Earnings ($) | Money list rank | Scoring average | Scoring rank |
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2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T39 | n/a | 75.67 | ||
2006 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | MC | n/a | 77.00 | ||
2007 | 25 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 454,226 | 31 | 72.63 | 35 |
2008 | 27 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 773,956 | 22 | 71.54 | 18 |
2009 | 25 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1,238,396 | 8 | 71.00 | 13 |
2010 | 21 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1,210,068 | 7 | 70.51 | 6 |
2011 | 20 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | T2 | 862,312 | 10 | 70.96 | 8 |
2012 | 21 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 561,302 | 26 | 71.31 | 20 |
2013 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1,125,389 | 7 | 70.49 | 7 |
2014 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 349,765 | 48 | 71.63 | 39 |
2015 | 20 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 339,622 | 54 | 71.60 | 39 |
2016 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 628,908 | 29 | 71.03 | 25 |
2017 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1,227,674 | 12 | 70.09 | 13 |
2018 | 16 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 460,644 | 50 | 71.16 | 34 |
2019 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | T4 | 402,109 | 53 | 71.21 | 49 |
2020 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T58 | 11,836 | 147 | 74.00 | n/a |
2021 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T26 | 69,620 | 122 | 72.45 | n/a |
2022 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T21 | 145,412 | 105 | 72.85 | 139 |
2023 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T22 | 45,937 | 158 | 72.59 | 126 |
2024 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | T3 | 139,880 | 117 | 72.40 | n/a |
Official as of 2024 season [10]
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