Jeong Jang

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Jeong Jang

Personal Information
Birth	June 11, 1980 (1980-06-11) (age 28) Daejeon, Korea
Height	5 ft 0 in (1.52 m)
Nationality	South Korea
Residence	Orlando, Florida, U.S.
College	Joongbu University (2003 Kinesiology & Physical Education)
Career
Turned Pro	2000
Current tour	LPGA Tour (joined 2000)
Other tour	KLPGA (joined 2000)
Professional wins	3 (LPGA Tour: 2, other individual: 1)
Best results in major championships Wins: 1
Kraft Nabisco	T18: 2001
LPGA Championship	T11: 2003
U.S. Women's Open	T16: 2003
Women's British Open	Won 2005

Jeong Jang
Hangul 장정 Hanja 張晶 Revised Romanization Jang Jeong McCune-Reischauer Chang Chǒng

Jeong Jang (born June 11, 1980 in Daejeon, Korea) is a South Korean golfer who plays on the U.S. based LPGA Tour. She is also a member of the South Korean KLPGA.

Jang stated playing golf at the age of thirteen. As a teenager she won the 1997 Korea Women's Open and the 1998 Korea Women's Amateur. She attended Joongbu University. After qualifying for the LPGA Tour at her first attempt, Jang had a successful rookie season in 2000 including a second place finish. She reached twelfth on the money list in 2004 and in that year had nine finishes in the top ten. In July 2005 she won for the first time, claiming the Women's British Open, which is one of the women's majors, by four shots. She claimed her second LPGA win in 2006 at the Wegmans LPGA.

Contents 1 Professional wins (3) 1.1 LPGA Tour (2) 1.2 LPGA of Japan Tour (1) 2 Results in LPGA majors 3 External links

[edit] Professional wins (3)

[edit] LPGA Tour (2)

• 2005 (1) Women's British Open
• 2006 (1) Wegmans LPGA

LPGA Majors are shown in bold.

[edit] LPGA of Japan Tour (1)

• 2006 (1) Japan Women's Open

[edit] Results in LPGA majors

Tournament	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Kraft Nabisco Championship	DNP	DNP	T18	T45	T21	23	T27	T19	T54	T31
LPGA Championship	DNP	CUT	CUT	T57	T11	T23	T13	T58	T25	T18
U.S. Women's Open	CUT	DNP	DNP	T22	T6	T7	T50	T28	T8
Women's British Open ^	DNP	CUT	CUT	T4	T14	T23	1	T26	CUT

^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied
Green background for a win. Yellow background for a top-10 finish.

[edit] External links

• Profile on the LPGA Tour's official site
• Golf Stars Online - links to features and articles
• Seoul Sisters - fansite profile
• KLPGA profile (Korean language)

v • d • e Women's World Golf Rankings | Top ten female golfers as of June 9, 2008 1. ▬ Lorena Ochoa 2. ▬ Annika Sörenstam 3. ▬ Suzann Pettersen 4. ▬ Paula Creamer 5. ▬ Karrie Webb 6. ▲ Yani Tseng 7. ▬ Cristie Kerr 8. ▼ Ji-Yai Shin 9. ▼ Jeong Jang 10. ▲ Maria Hjorth

v • d • e Women's British Open Champions Non-Major Championship 1976 Jenny Lee Smith · 1977 Vivien Saunders · 1978 Janey Melville · 1979 Alison Sheard · 1980 Debbie Massey · 1981 Debbie Massey · 1982 Marta Figueras-Doti · 1983 No event · 1984 Ayako Okamoto · 1985 Betsy King · 1986 Laura Davies · 1987 Alison Nicholas · 1988 Corinne Dibnah · 1989 Jane Geddes · 1990 Helen Alfredsson · 1991 Penny Grice-Whittker · 1992 Patty Sheehan · 1993 Karen Lunn · 1994 Liselotte Neumann · 1995 Karrie Webb · 1996 Emilee Klein · 1997 Karrie Webb · 1998 Sherri Steinhauer · 1999 Sherri Steinhauer · 2000 Sophie Gustafson · Major Championship 2001 Se Ri Pak · 2002 Karrie Webb · 2003 Annika Sörenstam · 2004 Karen Stupples · 2005 Jeong Jang · 2006 Sherri Steinhauer · 2007 Lorena Ochoa