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Pak Se Ri (born September 28 1977 in Daejeonmarker) is a South Koreanmarker professional golfer, playing on the LPGA Tour. She was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in November 2007.

Career overview

Se Ri Pak at the 2009 LPGA Championship in Bulle Rock,Maryland
turned professional in 1996, a year before she moved to the United Statesmarker as a 20-year-old. In 1996 and 1997 she won six tournaments on the Korean LPGA Tour. Pak joined the LPGA Tour full-time for the year 1998, crowning her rookie season with victories in two majors: the McDonald's LPGA Championship and U.S. Women's Open. She won the Rolex Rookie of the Year award for that season.

Since then she has gone on to win 24 events on the Tour, including three more majors. In June 2007, at age 29, she qualified for the World Golf Hall of Fame, surpassing Karrie Webb as the youngest living entrant ever. Tom Morris, Jr., who died in 1875 at the age of 24, was elected in 1975.

Pak has also competed in a professional men's event, at the 2003 SBS Super Tournament on the Korean Tour. The Korean Tour is a feeder tour for the Asian Tour and does not offer world ranking points. She finished 10th in the event.

At the 2005 LPGA Championship she missed the cut for the first time in 29 majors. In an interview quoted on the PGA Tour's website she commented that she was searching for a balance between her golf and her personal life: "I've been a little bit unhappy about everything, my game, big game. I'm not really enjoying it at all, and I'm not doing anything with my ability. I know what I needed, a much better balance. I'm always putting a lot of pressure on myself". Eventually, she was found to have a finger injury. In 2006 she rediscovered her best form by winning the LPGA Championship for the third time to claim her fifth major title overall.

In 2007, she won the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic for the fifth time, making her the third player in LPGA history to win the same tournament five or more times.

Perhaps the greatest tribute to her career to date came in a column by Golf World writer Eric Adelson in 2008, who called Pak "a pioneer... who changed the face of golf even more than Tiger Woods." When Pak came to the LPGA in 1998, she was the only Korean. Ten years later, she was one of 45 Koreans on tour, and the single largest source of revenue for the LPGA was the sale of TV rights in South Korea.

Professional wins (30)

LPGA Tour (24)



Major championships are shown in bold.

Korean LPGA (6)

  • 1996 (4) Dong-Il Renown Ladies Classic, Fila Women's Open, SBS Women's Professional Golf Challenge, Seoul Women's Open
  • 1997 (2) Cheil Industries Rose Women's Open, Seoul Women's Open


Major Championships

Wins (5)

Year Championship Winning Score
1998 LPGA Championship 273 (-11)
1998 Women’s U.S. Open +6PO
2001 Women's British Open 277 (-11)
2002 LPGA Championship 279 (-5)
2006 LPGA Championship 280 (-8)


Results in LPGA majors

Tournament 1997 1998 1999 2000
Kraft Nabisco Championship - - T13 T15
LPGA Championship - 1 T6 T3
U.S. Women's Open T21 1 T14 T15
du Maurier Classic - T41 T13 T7


Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Kraft Nabisco Championship T11 T9 T15 T16 T27 T45 T10 T10 T40
LPGA Championship T39 1 T46 T17 cut 1 T33 T46 T65
U.S. Women's Open 2 5 50 T32 T45 T3 T4 CUT CUT
Women's British Open ^ 1 T11 2 T21 WD WD T5 CUT


^The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.

T = tied

cut = missed the halfway cut

WD = withdrew

- = did not play

green background = won

yellow background = top 10

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