Mina Harigae | |||||
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Personal information | |||||
Full name | Mina Harigae | ||||
Born | Monterey, California, U.S. | November 1, 1989||||
Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) | ||||
Sporting nationality | United States | ||||
Residence | Mesa, Arizona, U.S. [1] | ||||
Career | |||||
College | Duke University | ||||
Turned professional | 2009 | ||||
Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2010) | ||||
Former tour(s) | Futures Tour (2009) | ||||
Professional wins | 7 | ||||
Number of wins by tour | |||||
Epson Tour | 3 | ||||
Other | 4 | ||||
Best results in LPGA major championships | |||||
Chevron Championship | T32: 2013 | ||||
Women's PGA C'ship | T13: 2020 | ||||
U.S. Women's Open | 2nd: 2022 | ||||
Women's British Open | T13: 2021 | ||||
Evian Championship | T24: 2014 | ||||
Achievements and awards | |||||
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Mina Harigae (born November 1, 1989) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.
As an amateur golfer, she won the 2007 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links. Harigae won the California Women's Amateur Championship for four consecutive years (2001–2005); her first victory came as a 12-year-old. [2]
Born to Japanese parents, Harigae attended the Stevenson School. Her parents run a sushi restaurant in Pacific Grove, California called Takara Sushi. [3] [4] She attended Duke University, leaving after a year to pursue a professional golf career. [5]
Harigae is the youngest winner of the California Women's Amateur Championship, accomplishing the feat in 2001 at the age of 12. [6]
In 2009, Harigae played on the Futures Tour, the LPGA Tour's developmental tour. She won three tournaments and was the tour's leading money winner, which earned her membership on the LPGA Tour for the 2010 season. [8] She won her largest payday, $1,080,000 for a second-place finish at the U.S. Women's Open on June 5, 2022, losing by 4 strokes to Minjee Lee. Lee won the largest purse to date in women's history $1.8 million in that tournament's largest prize total ever, $10 million. [9]
Results not in chronological order.
Tournament | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Chevron Championship | CUT | CUT | T38 | T32 | T67 | T51 | CUT | CUT | CUT | |||||||||
U.S. Women's Open | T66 | CUT | T67 | CUT | T34 | T28 | CUT | T38 | CUT | T30 | T61 | T30 | 2 | T33 | ||||
Women's PGA Championship | T59 | CUT | T15 | T22 | T69 | T65 | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | T13 | T46 | CUT | T24 | CUT | |||
The Evian Championship ^ | T27 | T24 | T64 | CUT | CUT | CUT | NT | T29 | CUT | CUT | ||||||||
Women's British Open | CUT | CUT | CUT | T29 | T69 | CUT | T28 | T13 | CUT | T44 |
^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013.
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
"T" = tied
Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
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Chevron Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 |
Women's PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 8 |
U.S. Women's Open | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 9 |
The Evian Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 |
Women's British Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 |
Totals | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 56 | 30 |
Year | Tournaments played | Cuts made | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top 10s | Best finish | Earnings ($) | Money list rank | Scoring average | Scoring rank |
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2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T66 | n/a | n/a | 76.25 | n/a |
2008 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | MC | n/a | n/a | 77.25 | n/a |
2010 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | T8 | 90,205 | 77 | 72.64 | 58 |
2011 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | T6 | 178,683 | 49 | 72.54 | 41 |
2012 | 26 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | T7 | 304,057 | 44 | 72.33 | 47 |
2013 | 26 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | T5 | 285,195 | 49 | 71.98 | 47 |
2014 | 27 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | T8 | 324,439 | 50 | 71.88 | 52 |
2015 | 25 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T16 | 130,703 | 82 | 72.73 | 90 |
2016 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T31 | 46,508 | 120 | 72.74 | 108 |
2017 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | T10 | 79,636 | 116 | 71.74 | 74 |
2018 | 21 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | T7 | 188,279 | 83 | 71.59 | 58 |
2019 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | T9 | 103,608 | 109 | 72.27 | 114 |
2020 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 327,376 | 34 | 71.03 | 16 |
2021 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | T2 | 791,757 | 22 | 70.76 | 37 |
2022 | 23 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1,293,471 | 15 | 71.35 | 71 |
2023 | 23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T24 | 269,689 | 85 | 71.78 | 87 |
Totals^ | 295 | 195 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 4,413,605 | 98 |
^ Official as of 2023 season [12] [13] [14]
*Includes matchplay and other tournaments without a cut.
Year | Tournaments played | Cuts made | Wins | Top 10s | Best finish | Earnings ($) | Money list rank | Scoring average | Scoring rank |
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2009 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 88,386 | 1 | 70.89 | 2 |
Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.
Year | World ranking | Source |
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2012 | 81 | [15] |
2013 | 93 | [16] |
2014 | 89 | [17] |
2015 | 163 | [18] |
2016 | 349 | [19] |
2017 | 293 | [20] |
2018 | 161 | [21] |
2019 | 230 | [22] |
2020 | 91 | [23] |
2021 | 48 | [24] |
2022 | 51 | [25] |
2023 | 124 | [26] |
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 | 3 | 1–2–0 | 0–1–0 | 0–0–0 | 1–1–0 | 1 | 33.3 |
2021 | 3 | 1–2–0 | 0–1–0 lost to C. Boutier 5&4 | 1–1–0 lost w/ L. Thompson 5&4 won w/ Y. Noh 3&1 | 1 | 33.3 |
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