In-Kyung Kim


In-Kyung Kim, also called I. K. Kim, is a South Korean female professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.

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 American Junior Golf Association, she won the 2005 Hargray Junior Classic. Also in 2005, she won the U.S. Girls' Junior and was the medalist in the stroke play portion of the U.S. Women's Amateur.

Professional career

Kim earned co-medalist honors at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament 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 2007 she had four top-10 finishes on the LPGA Tour. In 2008, she had seven top-10 finishes and claimed her first win at the Longs Drugs Challenge.
In June 2009, she claimed her second career title with a one-shot win over compatriot Se Ri Pak to take the LPGA State Farm Classic in Illinois. In December 2009 Kim won her third professional title, winning the Dubai Ladies Masters on the Ladies European Tour.
Kim won her fourth professional title and third LPGA title at the 2010 Lorena Ochoa Invitational. 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 Ladies European Tour. 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 Rancho Santa Fe, California, a suburb north of San Diego. She practices at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club, where she is an honorary member.
On the final day of the 2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship, 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, 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 Women's British Open.

Professional wins (10)

LPGA Tour wins (7)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreTo parMargin of
victory		Runner-upWinner's
share
112 Oct 2008Longs Drugs Challenge67-69-69-73=278−103 strokes Angela Stanford180,000
27 Jun 2009LPGA State Farm Classic69-68-69-65=271−171 stroke Se Ri Pak255,000
314 Nov 2010Lorena Ochoa Invitational69-68-68-64=269−193 strokes Suzann Pettersen220,000
42 Oct 2016Reignwood LPGA Classic70-64-68-66=268−241 stroke Mi Jung Hur315,000
54 Jun 2017ShopRite LPGA Classic66-67-69=202−112 strokes Anna Nordqvist225,000
623 Jul 2017Marathon Classic65-67-68-63=263−214 strokes Lexi Thompson240,000
76 Aug 2017Women's British Open65-68-66-71=270−182 strokes Jodi Ewart Shadoff504,821

LPGA Tour playoff record
No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
12007Wegmans LPGA Lorena OchoaLost to par on second extra hole
22010Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic Na Yeon Choi, Christina Kim
Song-Hee Kim		Choi won with birdie on second extra hole
32012Kraft Nabisco Championship Sun Young YooLost to birdie on first extra hole
42013Kia Classic Beatriz RecariLost to birdie on second extra hole
52014Portland Classic Austin ErnstLost to par on first extra hole

Ladies European Tour wins (4)

Major championships

Wins (1)

Results timeline

Results not in chronological order before 2019.
^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013.
CUT = missed the half-way cut

"T" = tied

Summary

Professional