Kim In-Kyung, also called In-Kyung Kim and I. K. Kim (born 13 June 1988), is a South Korean

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currently playing on the

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Amateur career

Kim was a member of the Korean National Team in 2003 and 2004 and won three tournaments on the International Junior Golf tour. In 2005, playing on the

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(AJGA), she won the 2005 Hargray Junior Classic. Also in 2005, she won the

U.S. Girls' Junior The U.S. Girls' Junior is one of the fifteen U.S. national golf championships organized by the United States Golf Association. It is open to amateur girls who are under 19 on the last day of the competition and have a USGA handicap index of 9.4 o ...

and was the medalist in the stroke play portion of the

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Professional career

Kim earned co-medalist honors at the

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in Florida in December 2006 as an amateur to earn full exempt status for the 2007 season. She turned professional immediately following the tournament. In her rookie year of

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she had four top-10 finishes on the LPGA Tour. In

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, she had seven top-10 finishes and claimed her first win at the

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. In June

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, she claimed her second career title with a one-shot win over compatriot

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to take the LPGA

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in Illinois. In December 2009 Kim won her third professional title, winning the

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on the

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. Kim won her fourth professional title and third LPGA title at the

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Lorena Ochoa Invitational The Lorena Ochoa Invitational was a women's professional golf tournament in Mexico on the LPGA Tour. Hosted by Lorena Ochoa, the event debuted in November 2008 at the course where she learned to play, Guadalajara Country Club in Guadalajara. The ...

. The day after she won, she announced that she had donated her entire $220,000 winnings to charity: half to the Lorena Ochoa Foundation which funds educational programs for children in Mexico and the other half to an American charity. The donation amounted to nearly 20 percent of her total winnings to date for the 2010 season. In 2010 Kim also won Rookie of the Year honors on the

. She joined the LET in 2010 after winning the Dubai Ladies Masters in December 2009. In 2010, she had won €193,154.69 in four LET events, including three top-10 finishes. Currently, former PGA Tour caddy Michael Dunsmore carries Kim's bag. In early 2010, Kim bought a home in

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, a suburb north of

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. She practices at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club, where she is an honorary member. On the final day of the

2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship The 2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship was played at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California, from March 29 through April 1. It was the 41st edition of the Kraft Nabisco Championship and its 30th year as a women's major. On the 72 ...

, Kim had a one-foot putt on the 18th green to seal her first major championship. The putt lipped out, forcing a playoff with

Sun-Young Yoo Yoo Sun-young (Korean 유선영 ''Yu Seon-Yeong'' ; born 13 December 1986), also known as Sun Young Yoo, is a South Korean female professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She won the 2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship, which was her first maj ...

, which Yoo won. This disappointment was followed by a relative dry spell for Kim on LPGA Tour which included two playoff losses, and one win on the European Ladies Tour in 2014. The LPGA dry spell ended in October 2016 when Kim won Reignwood LPGA Classic held in China. In 2017 Kim won three times on the LPGA Tour, including her first major title at the

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. Kim retired following the 2024 season.

Professional wins (10)

LPGA Tour wins (7)

LPGA Tour playoff record (0–5)

Ladies European Tour wins (4)

Major championships

Wins (1)

Results timeline

''Results not in chronological order.'' ^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013. CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 16 (2008 U.S. Open – 2012 LPGA) *Longest streak of top-10s – 4 (2010 LPGA – 2011 Kraft Nabisco)

LPGA Tour career summary

Official as of 2024 season

Team appearances

Professional *

Lexus Cup The Lexus Cup was an annual golf tournament played between 2005 and 2008 for professional women golfers contested by a team representing Asia and an international team representing the rest of the world. It was sanctioned by the LPGA Tour,

(representing Asia team):

(winners) *

International Crown The Hanwha LifePlus International Crown is a biennial women's professional team golf tournament on the LPGA Tour. Eight national teams of four players each (32 players in total) participate in the match play event. Beginning in 2025, the field ...

(representing South Korea):

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

(winners)

References

External links

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Profile on Seoul Sisters.com website
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