Modern day LPGA history has been made!

World No 1, Inbee Park just won LPGA US Open pretty handidly
and she has won 1st 3 Majors of LPGA and Babe Zaharias is only
other player fulfilling this amazing task in 1950.

Competetion level between now and then is totally different,I
believe considering the number and quality of players nowadays
so on.

Only three players(all Koreans) made under par in this tough course
and Inbee was 4 strokes ahead of next competeter,IK Kim.

Inbee has conquered rather easily this tough Sebonack golf course
as well as ever tough fellow competeters.

To me the turning point was 14th hole in 3rd round. Inbee
just had made 3 consecutive bogies and lead had shrinked down
to 3 and her approaching shot at ever tough 14th hole was
at 3 feet tall upper level comparing her playing partners' balls
were at lower level of pin.

Inbee amazingly made over 20 ft down hill putt to get birdie
comparing her partners' making pars. With this result, the lead
was 4 instead of possible 1. From this point on she was riding
down hills pretty comfortably for next 22 holes in a sense.

This win was her 9th LPGA win and 4th Major(three in this year).

This US Open win was just like Tiger Woods type dominant win
and she definitely will be staying on the top for a long time, I
strongly believe!

Congratulation!  Inbee!

We all are extremely proud of you!   KJ

PS. My friend Dr. Hahn Lee has called me twice from the golf
course he was playing for the result and I myself have to come
back home after 9 holes instead of usual 18 holes to witness
this historic event.

Aren't we couple of sport(golf)nuts or what!, ha,ha.

 

참으로 장합니다.
박인비의 침착한 태도가 모든 샷을 원하는대로 보낸것 같습니다.
한국 여성 골퍼들의 장기대회가 되었네요.
I am so proud of Inbee Park and all the other Korean players.

통쾌 하도다.
일등, 이등, 삼등, 모두 우리들의 따님들,
박인비의 세 메죠 연속 승리, 1950년 이래 처음이라고요,
한국 여성의 우수성을,  온세계에 찬란히 조명하고 부각시킨 그들,
진실로 통쾌한 일이로다, 승리로다.

Dr. Hwang,
Thanks for your quick reporting as usual.
I figured you would be home watching Inbee Park playing
when I had to call somebody to find out how she was doing.
Sukjoo and I teed off at 3:50 pm and finished 18 holes at 8:10 pm.
We ate our dinner while playing golf.
It was such a great afternoon with perfect weather we had to go out.

처음 이틀 조배정을 세계랭킹 top 3를 같이 붙혀놓아서 흥미로웠는데
우선 보통 US Open코스보다 비교적 fairway가 넓은 편이라서 길게치고
athletic한 3위 Suzann Pettersen, 그리고 1위를 되찾겠다고 절치부심하고
있는 2위 Stacy Lewis 모두 만만치 않은 상대라서 결과가 퍽 흥미로웠는데
어려운 그린을 잘읽고 putting을 잘하는 1위 박인비에 당하지를 못하더는군요.

green이 undulation이 심해서 몹씨 어려운것 같은데 마치 자기 안방같이
approach shot을 적소에 landing시키는 박인비 선수에 깊은 인상을 받았습니다.
아마 practice rounding에 home work를 잘한듯합니다.

Dr.Lee! I quit after playing 9 holes instead of 18 holes, because my lousy
9 more holes golfing will not be matching  the witnessing of potential
historic golf event.   KJ

 

I watched 3rd round yesterday and just finishing hole
today due to our high school alumni's 4th outing of the
year. The way she played, I thought, she deserves to
win - So Good To Look At.

Let's see the course she played again - Sebonack G.C.;
http://www.sebonack.com/

PS; Initiation Fee? $1.2 million
      Annual Fee? $60,000
     (my friend told me, true or not)

And Park In-bee's bio;
http://www.seoulsisters.com/players/misc/inbeepark.htm
(a little old one, but helpful)

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- Inbee Park set many golfing goals. Etching her name alongside Babe Zaharias was never one of them.
Yet now they're the only two players to win the first three majors of the year. Park became the first to accomplish the feat in the modern era Sunday with her second U.S. Women's Open title.
''Trying to put my name next to hers means just so much,'' Park said. ''I would think I would never get there; it's somewhere that I've never dreamed of. But all of a sudden, I'm there.''
The world's top-ranked player finished at 8 under to win by four strokes. Her 2-over 74 in the final round was more than enough, with Sebonack's trying conditions keeping any rivals from making a run. Only three players were under par for the tournament.
Fellow South Korean I.K. Kim also shot 74 for her second runner-up finish at a major.
Zaharias won the year's first three majors in 1950 - back when there were only three. Now there are five, so Grand Slam might not quite be the right term if Park wins all of them.
Ahead by four strokes at the start of the round, Park birdied the ninth and 10th holes to extend her lead. She has won six times already this year, including three straight tournaments. Park added to another historic U.S. Women's Open victory in 2008, when she became the event's youngest champion at age 19.
''I didn't know what was going on at that time,'' Park said. ''I played very good golf then, but I didn't know what I was playing for, and that was just my first win. It was a great championship then, but now I think I really appreciate more and I really know what this means.''
So Yeon Ryu shot 72 to finish third at 1 under. South Korean players took the top three spots and have won the last five majors.
Ryu and Na Yeon Choi, the last two U.S. Women's Open champs, sprayed Park with champagne after she made her final putt on the 18th green.
With lashing wind and devilish greens, Sebonack was a classically troublesome U.S. Women's Open course. And once Park built a lead, nobody could mount a charge.
She certainly wasn't going to make enough mistakes to come back to the field. Park had just 10 bogeys and no double bogeys in four rounds.
She predicted Saturday that shooting even par in the final round would be enough, and she sure was right.
All of four players were under par Sunday - though that was still more than the third round, when only Park achieved it.
Kim birdied No. 2 to pull within three strokes; she couldn't claw closer. And when she bogeyed the fourth hole, the deficit was back to four shots.
Park bogeyed the sixth and seventh, but so did Kim.
Kim had what would have qualified as a sensational week if not for Park, finishing at least three strokes better than everyone but the player currently dominating the sport.
''You can obviously feel for someone like I.K. Kim who would be winning any other U.S. Open on this golf course if it weren't for Inbee,'' said seven-time major champion Karrie Webb.
This was Kim's fourth top-four finish at a U.S. Women's Open, but she's still seeking her first major title. She was a foot away last year at the Kraft Nabisco, then missed a short putt on No. 18 that would have clinched the championship and went on to lose in a playoff.
Asked if she feels she's on the verge of a major breakthrough, Kim paused for a moment then said: ''Yeah, to be honest, yeah, it's time to win it.''
''But I think things have to come naturally,'' she added, ''and it's great to play with Inbee, and she's doing so well. Seeing her doing it, it just makes me want it more.''
Americans Paula Creamer (72) and Angela Stanford (74) and England's Jodi Ewart Shadoff (76) tied for fourth at 1 over. Shadoff was alone in third at 3 under after the third round but opened Sunday with three straight bogeys.
Soon-to-be Oklahoma State player Casie Cathrea shot 70 on Sunday to match Shanshan Feng for the best round of the day and finish as the low amateur at 9 over. Lydia Ko, the 16-year-old New Zealander who won the Canadian Open last August to become the youngest LPGA Tour winner, was next at 11 over.
Park also became the second player to win the U.S. Women's Open after victories in her previous two tournaments. Mickey Wright did it in 1964.
The 24-year-old Park won the Kraft Nabisco and LPGA Championship for her first two major titles of the year. Up next is the Women's British Open at St. Andrews on Aug. 1-4.
The Evian Championship is Sept. 12-15. Park won the French event last year before it became a major championship.
Park contemplated the current definition of a Grand Slam.
''So I think the British Open is one I have to win,'' she said. ''So it would be great if I could win five, but I still think four means a Grand Slam.
Laughing, she added: ''I think four out of five is very big.''

사진 몇장 보탭니다.

참 Confederation Cup 결승전은 부라질이 스페인을 3-0 완승으로 끝났습니다.
부라질의 신예 super star forward Neymar(21세)가 돋보이네요.   규정



우승후 환호하는 박인비 선수



샴페인으로 우승 축하해주는 최나연,유소연 선수



US Open 우승에 빛나는 메달과 트로피



우승후 인터뷰 관경

And here is her Interview in English at different occasion;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPZ4mbdd2zo

So Smooth Speaker in English at ease
-Rare to see among Koreans in front of microphone.

1.박인비 선수는 12살의 어린 나이에 미국 Florida에 골프 유학을 온덕에 소위 미국식 영어를 현지에서 배워
   인터뷰시 영어나 매너리즘이 미국식이다. 다만 억양의 고조를 분명히 하고 마디마디를 깨끗이 끝내주었으면
   하는 바램입니다.

2.'삼바축구'로 불리우며 자타가 공인했던 축구의 종주국 부리질이 최근 아치 라이벌인 메사가 이끄는 알젠티나에
   눌리는것은 물론 FIFA랭킹 22위로 추락했던 부라질 축구팀이 이번 Conferderation 결승전에서 부라질의 자존심을
   걸고 절치부심 세계 랭킹 1위인 스페인을 3-0으로 완승한것을 보면 모든경기의 승패의 근본은 전략,전술보다 이기
   려하는 정신력이 더 중요하다는 점이다.

3.같은 맥락으로 이번 컷하기전 조편성에서 세계랭킹 top 3가 같이 경기하였는데 특히 1위 탈환을 하려 절치부심을
   하고있는 2위 Stacy Lewis가 힘없이 박인비 선수에게 무너졌던(+12,공동 42위)것은 박인비 선수의 한시즌 메이저
   3연승 만큼이나 이사람을 놀라게 했다.  규정

 

Here are the most updated LPGA stats.   KJ

Rolex World Ranking

1 Inbee Park               13.27
2 Stacy Lewis                8.29
3 Suzann Pettersen       7.92
4 Na Yeon Choi              7.58
5 So Yeon Ryu              7.55
6 Shanshan Feng           6.33
7 Karrie Webb               6.16
8 Yani Tseng                 5.88
9 Jiyai Shin                   5.79
10 IK Kim                      5.77

Official Money List

1.Inbee Park              2,106,827
2.IK Kim                        877,964
3.Stacy Lewis                854,098
4.Suzann Pettersen       828,898
5.So Yeon Ryu               810,882

Rolex Player of the Year

1.Inbee Park               281
2.Stacy Lewis               92
3.Suzann Pettersen      91
4.So Yeon Ryu              73
5.IK Kim                        62

Scoring Average

1.Inbee Park              69.67
2.Stacy Lewis             70,09
3.Na Yeon Choi           70.43
4.Suzann Pettersen    70.46
5.Jiyai Shin                 70.58

Putting Average

1.Inbee Park              28.43
2.Jennifer Gleason      28.61
3.Esther Choe             28.67
4.Danah Bordner         28.82
5.Julia Boland             28.88

 

자기 자신도 놀랐고 앞으로 얼만큼 계속 성취할 수 있을가 생각하면
겁이 난다는 표현을 하더군요. 당연하겠지요.
영어로 인터뷰를 잘 했어요.
귀엽고 자랑스럽습니다.

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- Inbee Park hoped to win a Grand Slam.
A career Grand Slam, that is. The single-season variety was just too outlandish.
Yet she'll head to St. Andrews next month for the Women's British Open with a chance to become the first player to go 4 for 4 in majors - whatever that may be called, now that there are five majors in a year.
''Whether I do it or not, I'm just a very lucky person,'' Park said Sunday after winning the U.S. Women's Open for the second time.
Park's four-shot victory at windy Sebonack would seem to bode well for Scotland, though the world's top-ranked player has won in pretty much every situation this season on the way to six titles, including all three majors and three straight tournaments overall.
Park talked Sunday about how calm she felt, and Annika Sorenstam could only marvel. Sorenstam was the last player to try to win the year's first three majors, in 2005, and she didn't come close at the U.S. Women's Open.
''I was NOT calm,'' she said with a laugh.
''I know the pressure you can feel, the expectations,'' Sorenstam added. ''She's handled it beautifully. Nothing seems to faze her.''
Brad Beecher, Park's longtime caddie, said he's never seen her angry or emotional on the course.
''I think it's because I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course,'' Park said. ''I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course. Yeah, outside the golf course, I feel the pressure and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me.''
She'll head home to South Korea for a rare visit before the British. Park knows she won't get much time to herself there, but she wants to share her success with the fans who wake up in the middle of the night to watch her play.
St. Andrews, the birthplace of golf, seems only appropriate as the spot for where Park could make history, Sorenstam said.
Park will just have to keep not thinking about that on the course.
''If I knew what I was doing,'' Park said, ''I think I wouldn't be able to stand.''
Beecher said she'll glance at leaderboards but excels at not worrying about what other players are doing. The rest of the field, though, will have a hard time not noticing if Park quickly pulls in front again.
''You don't even know if she has a pulse out there half the time,'' said Paula Creamer, who tied for fourth at Sebonack. ''Doesn't matter if it's a good shot or a bad shot, I think I've seen her actually smile maybe 10 times.''
The only player to win the year's first three majors had been Babe Zaharias in 1950 - and there were only three then.
''After Annika retired I didn't think anybody would ever do it,'' said Angela Stanford, another of the players who tied for fourth, nine strokes behind Park.
After the Women's British Open on Aug. 1-4, The Evian Championship is Sept. 12-15 for the year's fifth and final major. If Park can win at St. Andrews, everyone will need to decide whether a new term is required for winning all the majors.
Park recalled when there were other players she thought she couldn't beat. She kept working at her game and proved herself wrong. So she figures there's no reason her rivals won't do the same now.
''I know I have a long ways to go to go somewhere like what Yani (Tseng) or what Annika and what Lorena (Ochoa) have achieved,'' Park said.
She added: ''I still have a lot of things to learn.''
No matter what happens in Scotland, Park will always be the first player in the modern era to win the year's first three majors.
''We might not see that again for another 60 years,'' said Sorenstam, now an analyst for Golf Channel.
Park and Beecher didn't talk about the record book until after she hit her third shot on the par-5 18th hole Sunday.
''I just said to her, 'Mate, you're just about to join history, enjoy this walk,''' the Australian recalled.
And Park actually grinned.

This is the Most Comprehensive Coverage of
Park In-bee's US Open Win at the Sebonack,
Better and More Comprehensice coverage
Than any other news media! in Korea and
In America, or Combined.

I urged my friends to visit our Freeboard,
if they want to know what happened and
what's happening after Park's win.

No wonder
I'm very proud of our Webpage!

Congratulations
 - to our WM and other contributors.
Thanks.

오늘의 박인비 선수를 탄생시킨 일등 공신들




박세리 US Open 우승후 어린딸을 골프에 흥미를 느끼게 해서 오늘에 있기까지 꾸준히
뒷바라지를 해준 아버지,박건규씨,12살의 어린나이에 미국 Florida 골프 유학시 골프는
물론 미국문화에 빨리 동화할수 있도록 독려하며 뒷바라질을 해주었던 어머니 김성자여사,

그리고 US Open 우승후 긴 slump를 극복하기 위한 수윙교정 그리고 무었보다도
정신적으로 안정을 되찾게 해준 수윙코치겸 약혼자인 전 KLPGA 선수였던 남기협씨등의
사진들입니다.    간단한 박인비 선수의 내력은 아래와 같습니다. 규정

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