Megan Khang | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Brockton, Massachusetts, U.S. | October 23, 1997
Height | 5 ft 1 in (155 cm) |
Sporting nationality | United States |
Career | |
Turned professional | 2015 |
Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
Professional wins | 4 |
Number of wins by tour | |
LPGA Tour | 1 |
Other | 3 |
Best results in LPGA major championships | |
Chevron Championship | T9: 2023 |
Women's PGA C'ship | T3: 2023 |
U.S. Women's Open | T4: 2021 |
Women's British Open | T11: 2016 |
Evian Championship | T8: 2019 |
Megan Khang (born October 23, 1997) is an American professional golfer. She plays on the LPGA Tour and is the first player of Hmong and Laotian descent to do so. [1]
Khang's parents were refugees from the Vietnam War from Laos and came to the United States with their respective families in the 1970s. [1] [2] Khang was born in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1997 and learned the sport from her father. She qualified for the 2012 U.S. Women's Open at the age of 14. [3] She won several events as a junior golfer and played on the United States Junior Solheim Cup team in 2015. [4]
Khang finished T-6 at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament in 2015 to earn her LPGA Tour card for the 2016 season. She has maintained her card ever since. Her first LPGA Tour win came in her 191st start on August 27, 2023, in a playoff at the CPKC Women's Open over Ko Jin-young. [5]
She was a member of the 2019, 2021 and 2023 United States Solheim Cup teams.
Khang is good friends with actress Kathryn Newton as they were competing against each other at AJGA events when they were younger. Newton would play golf right up until graduating high school when she put sole focus on her acting career. [6]
Source: [4]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner-up | Winner's share ($) |
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1 | Aug 27, 2023 | CPKC Women's Open | 71-66-68-74=279 | −9 | Playoff | Ko Jin-young | 375,000 |
LPGA Tour playoff record (1–0)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponents | Result |
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1 | 2023 | CPKC Women's Open | Ko Jin-young | Won with par on first extra hole (2 strokes win) |
Results not in chronological order.
Tournament | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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Chevron Championship | CUT | T47 | CUT | T26 | T59 | ||||
Women's PGA Championship | CUT | CUT | CUT | T10 | CUT | ||||
U.S. Women's Open | CUT | CUT | T35LA | CUT | T27 | T10 | T39 | 5 | |
The Evian Championship | T22 | T58 | T24 | T8 | NT | ||||
Women's British Open | T11 | T49 | CUT | T44 | T22 |
Tournament | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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Chevron Championship | T10 | CUT | T9 |
Women's PGA Championship | T27 | CUT | T3 |
U.S. Women's Open | T4 | T8 | CUT |
The Evian Championship | CUT | T43 | T9 |
Women's British Open | T39 | T28 | T30 |
LA = Low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
"T" = tied
Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
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Chevron Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 |
Women's PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 3 |
U.S. Women's Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 7 |
The Evian Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 |
Women's British Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 |
Totals | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 42 | 28 |
Year | Tournaments played | Cuts made* | Wins | 2nds | 3rds | Top 10s | Best finish | Earnings ($) | Money list rank | Scoring average | Scoring rank |
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2012 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | MC | n/a | n/a | 77.50 | n/a |
2013 | Did not play | ||||||||||
2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | MC | n/a | n/a | 77.00 | n/a |
2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T35 | n/a | n/a | 71.25 | n/a |
2016 | 28 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | T4 | 336,016 | 57 | 72.02 | 70 |
2017 | 32 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | T3 | 456,319 | 43 | 71.04 | 40 |
2018 | 29 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | T4 | 614,164 | 35 | 71.44 | 49 |
2019 | 24 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | T4 | 646,367 | 32 | 70.70 | 25 |
2020 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 377,242 | 30 | 71.56 | 41 |
2021 | 20 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | T4 | 723,799 | 26 | 70.47 | 26 |
2022 | 24 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1,025,005 | 26 | 70.15 | 17 |
2023 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1,486,310 | 18 | 70.25 | 12 |
Totals^ | 192 (2016) | 151 (2016) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 37 | 1 | 5,665,222 | 71 |
^ official as of 2023 season [8] [9] [10]
* Includes matchplay and other tournaments without a cut.
Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.
Year | Ranking | Source |
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2015 | 478 | [11] |
2016 | 74 | [12] |
2017 | 94 | [13] |
2018 | 66 | [14] |
2019 | 44 | [15] |
2020 | 49 | [16] |
2021 | 36 | [17] |
2022 | 28 | [18] |
2023 | 14 | [19] |
Amateur
Professional
Year | Total matches | Total W–L–H | Singles W–L–H | Foursomes W–L–H | Fourballs W–L–H | Points won | Points % |
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Career | 10 | 4–3–3 | 2–0–1 | 2–2–1 | 0–1–1 | 5.5 | 51.4 |
2019 | 3 | 0–2–1 | 0–0–1 halved w/ C. Hull | 0–2–0 lost w/ A. Park 2&1 lost w/ D. Kang 4&3 | 0–0–0 | 0.5 | 16.7 |
2021 | 3 | 1–1–1 | 1–0–0 def. S. Popov 3&2 | 0–0–1 halved w/ A. Ewing | 0–1–0 lost w/ J. Korda 1 dn | 1.5 | 50.0 |
2023 | 4 | 3–0–1 | 1–0–0 def. L. Grant 1 up | 2–0–0 won w/ L. Thompson 2&1 won w/ L. Thompson 1 up | 0–0–1 halved w/ R. Zhang | 3.5 | 87.5 |
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