Post by philknj on Mar 7, 2019 22:22:33 GMT
I haven’t done one of these retro-posts in a long time...many reasons to pick Jenny from the ROK, including the latest fact I didn’t know before: #1 in Sand Saves on the LPGA in 2016 and 2018. She's also the rare one that I saw play in person during the old days...the 2009 U.S. Girls' Junior when she got eliminated by one of the Lendl sisters in Round One. The Seoul Sisters Main page has stuff on Jenny’s early years, but I’ll try to fill in the gaps here.
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No surprise here – she was CRAZY good playing for the Torrance Tartars in high school (class of 2010)…won the California Interscholastic Federation individual championship in 2008 & 2009 and Torrance won the CIF team championship three straight years (it helped that she played with future pros Jane Rah and Demi Runas).
CARSON - 10/22/08 - Staff Photo: SCOTT VARLEY - 6th Annual Girls Knabe Cup at Lakewood Country Club. Torrance High's Jenny Shin putts on hole 3.(Photo by Scott Varley/Digital First Media/Torrance Daily Breeze via Getty Images)
CARSON - 10/22/08 - Staff Photo: SCOTT VARLEY - 6th Annual Girls Knabe Cup at Lakewood Country Club. Torrance High's Jenny Shin tees off on hole 1.(Photo by Scott Varley/Digital First Media/Torrance Daily Breeze via Getty Images)
Members of the 2008 Torrance High girls golf team. Front row, from left, Demi Runas, Jane Rah and Emily Chong. Back row, from left, Chaewon Park, Samantha Martin, Michele Chun, Rochelle Chan and Jenny Shin. 2008 file photo. (Robert Casillas, Daily Breeze)
The link below has photo collections dated Nov. 2006 thru Nov. 2009 – No player or team captions, but Torrance wore maroon as its main color. They are copyright protected and can’t be posted here...unless someone else can figure out how to do it:
www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/torrance-tartars-(torrance,ca)/girls-golf/home.htm
A really good Jenny pic from 2009 is here:
The first two articles touched on her HS career...the third one mentions her "broke and desperate" approach to the Duramed Tour in 2010:
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Her Wikipedia page and lpga.com do not mention her first AJGA win: the 2008 Stockton Sports Commission Junior Classic where she shot 3-under 213 and beat Victoria Sungmin Park in a sudden-death playoff. FYI, Paige Spirinac finished T-11, 18 shots back.
Regarding her win at the 2009 AJGA Heather Farr Classic, she came from six shots back on the final day (70-81-68-219, +6), beating Kim Kim and Kyung Kim by one shot.
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Jenny’s presser after winning the 2006 U.S. Girls’ Junior is below. I think there was a typo here and there in the transcription...aside from that, she had some perceptive observations about her Final match against Vickie Hurst. I also got the impression that Nike and Apple were not throwing swag at her during her amateur days...and check this out:
Q. What does this do for you, for your confidence?
JENNY SHIN: Actually, winning this, will be harder for me because I have some things that I have to do better, like now that I came up this high, I can't go down. I have to go higher and higher, so I have to practice more and concentrate and, yeah.
JENNY SHIN: Actually, winning this, will be harder for me because I have some things that I have to do better, like now that I came up this high, I can't go down. I have to go higher and higher, so I have to practice more and concentrate and, yeah.
The entire interview:
One-minute video of Jenny looking back 10 years after her 2006 US Girls' Junior win:
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Jenny won The International at Concord on the Duramed Tour in 2010, although that news was swamped by the improper DQ of Sarah Brown…I had forgotten about that. A player (unknown) ratted out Brown for maybe having an illegal wedge. The committee agreed and ejected her mid-round, then later realized her wedge WAS legal. Whoops! The Duramed Tour apologized and offered $2,000 compensation...her daddy made a counter-offer that was probably MUCH higher, and probably got most of it (the settlement was kept private).
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Videos with Jenny at the 2010 Price Chopper Tour Championship (Duramed Futures Tour) in Albany, NY.
Jenny’s comments after opening with a 66 -
Jenny tied for first after Round Two -
Jenny’s comments after opening with a 66 -
Jenny tied for first after Round Two -
Cindy LaCrosse won the tournament, but Jenny still got her LPGA card starting at 5:57 -
Meet the top-five on the Duramed money list in 2010 -