Kim A-lim (, born 4 October 1995) is a South Korean professional golfer who currently plays primarily 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 ...
and the
LPGA of Korea Tour
The LPGA of Korea Tour is a South Korean professional golf tour for Women's sports, women. LPGA stands for Ladies Professional Golf Association. LPGA of Korea runs this tour, not the American LPGA. It is one of the world's five leading women's golf ...
.
Kim turned professional as a teenager in 2013 and began playing on the KLPGA in 2016. She has two wins on the tour, the first coming at the Pak Se-ri Invitational in October 2018. She also won the
MY Munyoung Queens Park Championship in 2019 and finished 11th on the KLPGA money list that season.
In December 2020, Kim made her LPGA major championship debut in the
2020 U.S. Women's Open at
Champions Golf Club
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in
Houston, Texas
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. Entering the final round five shots off the lead, she birdied the last three holes to shoot 67 and won the tournament by one shot over
Ko Jin-young
Ko Jin-young (;, born 7 July 1995), also known as Jin Young Ko, is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. By age 22 years, she had won 10 times on the LPGA of Korea Tour, was second at the 2015 Ricoh Women's British Ope ...
and
Amy Olson
Amy Olson née Anderson (born July 10, 1992) is an American former professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour from 2013 to 2023. She turned professional in 2013 after her collegiate career at North Dakota State University where she won an N ...
.
Professional wins (6)
LPGA Tour wins (3)
LPGA of Korea Tour wins (3)
*
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 ...
(1) OK! Savings Bank Pak Se-ri Invitational
*
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
(1) MY Munyoung Queens Park Championship
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2022
The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
(1) Creas F&C KLPGA Championship
Major championships
Wins (1)
Results timeline
''Results not in chronological order.''
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied
Summary
*Most consecutive cuts made – 6 (2023 U.S. Women's Open – 2024 Women's PGA)
*Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (four times)
References
External links
LPGA Tour of Korea profile
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South Korean female golfers
LPGA of Korea Tour golfers
Winners of LPGA major golf championships
1995 births
Living people
21st-century South Korean sportswomen