Yi Eun-jung (, born 11 January 1988) is a

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n professional

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

er who plays on the

LPGA Tour The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly ...

. Yi was born in

Uijeongbu Uijeongbu (; ) is a Administrative divisions of South Korea, city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It is the tenth-most populous city in the province and a suburb of Seoul within the greater Seoul Metropolitan Area. History Uijeongbu was estab ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

. She turned professional in 2006 and joined the

Duramed Futures Tour The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour ...

. She qualified for the LPGA Tour via the Qualifying Tournament at the end of 2007. Her first LPGA Tour victory came at the 2009

Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic The Greater Toledo Classic is a women's professional golf tournament on the Legends of the LPGA and Epson Tours. It was founded in 1984 and has been played yearly, except in 1986 and 2011, in Sylvania, Ohio, a suburb northwest of Toledo. Hist ...

Amateur wins

*2005

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Professional wins

LPGA Tour wins (1)

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

Results in LPGA majors

''Results not in chronological order before 2014.'' ^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013. CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
T = tied

References

External links

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Eunjung Yi profile at Yahoo! Sports
South Korean female golfers LPGA Tour golfers Sportspeople from Uijeongbu Sportspeople from Murrieta, California 1988 births Living people 21st-century South Korean sportswomen {{SouthKorea-golf-bio-stub