| Choi Hye-jin | |
| Birth Date: | 23 August 1999 |
| Birth Place: | Gimhae, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea |
| Yearpro: | 2017 |
| Tour: | LPGA of Korea Tour LPGA Tour |
| Prowins: | 13 |
| Klpgawins: | 12 |
| Otherwins: | 1 |
| Anainspiration: | T17/17th: 2022, 2023 |
| Lpga: | T5: 2022 |
| Wusopen: | 2nd: 2017 |
| Wbritopen: | T28: 2022 |
| Evian: | T7: 2024 |
| Award1: | LPGA of Korea Tour leading money winner |
| Year1: | 2019 |
Choi Hye-jin (Korean: 최혜진; born 23 August 1999) is a South Korean professional golfer.
Choi represented South Korea at the 2014 Asian Games where she helped the team to a silver medal and finished fifth in the individual event. She help the Korean team to a third place finish at the 2014 Espirito Santo Trophy.
In 2015, Choi won the World Junior Girls Championship, both individually and with the South Korean team.[1]
Choi won the 2016 Canadian Women's Amateur and was low amateur at the 2016 U.S. Women's Open.[2] She led the Korean team to victory at the 2016 Espirito Santo Trophy. She also finished runner-up at the 2016 New Zealand Women's Open, co-sanctioned by the ALPG Tour and the Ladies European Tour.
Choi won the 2017 Australian Women's Amateur and also won the ChoJung Sparkling Water Yongpyong Resort Open on the 2017 LPGA of Korea Tour.[3] [4] She finished second at the 2017 U.S. Women's Open at the age of seventeen.[5] [6] She was attempting to become the second amateur to win the U.S. Open.[7] She won a second LPGA of Korea Tour event in August 2017, the Bogner-MBN Ladies Open.
Choi turned professional in August 2017.[8]
She was runner-up at the 2018 ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open, an LPGA Tour event.
In 2019, she won five events and was LPGA of Korea Tour leading money winner.
Choi earned her card for the 2022 LPGA Tour through qualifying school.[9]
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Results not in chronological order before 2023.
| Tournament | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chevron Championship | T48 | T17 | 17 | T46 | ||||||
| U.S. Women's Open | T38 | 2 | T27 | T30 | 3 | T20 | CUT | |||
| Women's PGA Championship | T5 | T52 | T16 | |||||||
| The Evian Championship | T14 | T49 | NT | T22 | T48 | T7 | ||||
| Women's British Open | CUT | CUT | T28 | T66 |
| Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | ||
| Totals | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 20 |
Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.
| Year | Ranking | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 605 | [11] | |
| 2015 | 274 | [12] | |
| 2016 | 144 | [13] | |
| 2017 | 12 | [14] | |
| 2018 | 22 | [15] | |
| 2019 | 27 | [16] | |
| 2020 | 25 | [17] | |
| 2021 | 55 | [18] | |
| 2022 | 20 | [19] | |
| 2023 | 35 | [20] |
Amateur
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Professional