Robyn Choi | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Sydney, Australia | 17 March 1998
Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) |
Sporting nationality | Australia |
Residence | Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia |
Career | |
College | University of Colorado Boulder |
Turned professional | 2018 |
Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2019) WPGA Tour of Australasia |
Former tour(s) | Epson Tour (joined 2020) |
Professional wins | 1 |
Number of wins by tour | |
ALPG Tour | 1 |
Best results in LPGA major championships | |
Chevron Championship | T54: 2024 |
Women's PGA C'ship | CUT: 2024 |
U.S. Women's Open | CUT: 2017, 2018 |
Women's British Open | DNP |
Evian Championship | DNP |
Robyn Choi (born 17 March 1998) is an Australian professional golfer and LPGA Tour player. [1]
Choi was born in Sydney to Korean parents, and grew up in Gold Coast, Queensland. [2] She won the Queensland Amateur Championship in 2015 and 2016, and reached the semi-finals of the 2015 Australian Women's Amateur. She finished 3rd at 2018 the Australian Master of the Amateurs. [3]
Choi represented Australia at the 2016 Queen Sirikit Cup where the team finished second behind Korea, and the 2016 Espirito Santo Trophy, alongside Karis Davidson and Hannah Green. [4] [5]
After graduating from Benowa State High School, Choi played college golf at the University of Colorado Boulder with the Colorado Buffaloes women's golf team for two and a half years 2016−2018, where she was named co-MVP and All-American. [6]
She qualified for both the 2017 and 2018 U.S. Women's Open, where she missed the cut. [7]
Choi turned professional after she obtained a card at the LPGA Tour Q School in November 2018 by finishing tied 45th. She joined the 2019 LPGA Tour and in her rookie season played in 12 events and made three cuts. [1] Playing in the 2020 ISPS Handa Vic Open she finished in a tie for 6th. [8]
In 2020, she played mainly on the Epson Tour, where she was runner-up at the Four Winds Invitational, a stroke behind Kim Kaufman, and finished 13th in the rankings. In 2021, her season-best result was a solo 3rd place at the Four Winds Invitational, behind Lilia Vu and Ruixin Liu. She was runner-up at the 2022 Circling Raven Championship, and at the 2023 Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout, behind Natasha Oon. [9]
In 2023, playing on the WPGA Tour of Australasia, she was the leading woman at the Webex Players Series South Australia. [10]
Choi earned her card for the 2024 LPGA Tour through qualifying school, where she was the medalist, outpacing runner-up Mao Saigo by three strokes. [11]
Source: [3]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Runner-up |
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1 | 22 Oct 2023 | Webex Players Series South Australia | 67-68-70-71=276 | −4 | Emma Ash |
Tournament | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Chevron Championship | T54 | |||||||
U.S. Women's Open | CUT | CUT | ||||||
Women's PGA Championship | CUT | |||||||
The Evian Championship | NT | |||||||
Women's British Open |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied
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