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Post by HappyFan on Oct 31, 2021 17:32:17 GMT
I saw a chart on the Korean web breaking down wins by country and number of winners from that country.
Here's how South Korea ranks:
1 US 1527 wins, 195 different players 2 South Korea 200 wins, 48 different players 3 Sweden 118 wins, 12 different players 4 Australia 85 wins, 11 different players 5 Japan 51 wins, 15 different players 6 England 36 wins, 10 different players 7 Canada 34 wins, 10 different players 8 Mexico 29 wins, 2 different players 9 Taiwan 23 wins, 6 different players 10 Thailand 18 wins, 5 different players
I think the 48 different winners stat is almost as amazing as the 200 total wins. I'm not sure I can name 'em all.
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Post by rlspore on Nov 1, 2021 0:19:25 GMT
I recently went through the wikipedia year-end surveys of LPGA seasons a while ago. I believe these are the Korean winners:
25 Si Re Pak
21 Imbee Park
12 Sei-young Kim
11 Jiyai Shin Jin Young Ko
9 Choi Na-yeon
8 Mi-hyun Kim 7 In-kyung Kim Sung Hyun Park 6 So-yeon Ryu Hee-Won Han Grace Park
5 Eun-Hee Ji Hana Jang
4 Lee Seon-hwa Mi Jung Hur Amy Yang Mirim Lee Hyo Joo Kim
3 Park Hee Young Ingee Chun
2 Ko Woo-Soon - wins in 1994, 1995 Park Hee-jung "Gloria" - 2001, 2002 Meena Lee - 2005, 2006 Kang Ji-min - 2005, 2010 Jang Jeong - 2005, 2006 Oh Ji Young - 2008, 2009 Lee Mi-hyang - 2014, 2017
1 Ku Ok-hee - 1988 *Pearl Sinn -1998 (born in Korean, US citizen at 14) Ahn Si-hyun - 2003 Lee Jee-young - 2005 Kang Soo-young - 2005 Birdie Kim - 2005 US Open Sung-ah - 2006 Kim Joo-mi - 2006 Hong Jin-Joo - 2006 Kim Young - 2007 Yi Eun-jung - 2009 Song Bo-bae - 2009 Seo Hee-kyung - 2010 Yoo Sun-Young- 2012 Kraft Nabisco Lee Ilhee - 2013 Q Baek (Baek Kyu-jung) - 2014 Chella Choi ‐ 2015 Ahn Sun-ju - 2015 Jenny Shin - 2016 Jeong-eun Lee6 - 2019 A Lim Kim - 2020
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Post by rlspore on Nov 1, 2021 3:33:36 GMT
And also relevant to this forum, the Japanese players - I count 16 players, with 52 wins. Japanese started much earlier than the Koreans.
Hisako “Chako” Higuchi (1976) – 2 wins, 1 major Michiko Okada (1978) – 1 win Tatsuko Ohsako (1980) – 1 win Ayako Okamoto (1982) – 17 wins Nayako Yoshikawa (1984) – 1 win Yuko Moriguchi (1987) – 1 win Hiromi Kobayashi (1993) – 4 wins Mayumi Hirase (1996) – 1 win Akiko Fukushima (1999) – 2 wins Momoko Ueda (2007) – 2 wins Ai Miyazato (2009) – 9 wins Mika Miyazato (2012) – 1 win Haru Nomura (2016) – 3 wins Nasa Hataoka (2018) – 5 wins Hinako Shibuno (2019) – 1 win, 1 major Ai Suzuki (2019) – 1 win
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Post by rlspore on Nov 1, 2021 4:09:02 GMT
On a related note - I've been reading Jim Burnett's "Tee Times: On the Road with the Ladies Professional Golf Tour" (1997), his chronicle of the 1996 LPGA season. Not too far in yet, but interesting that he's talking about the Swedes as the latest foreign invasion to LPGA (and with no undercurrent of xenophobia) - which was, of course, completely appropriate for the time, during Annika's 3rd year on tour, with Neumann and Alfredsson already stars.
Swedish winners on LPGA – 13 players (119)
Liselotte Neumann (1988) – 13 wins, 1 major, ROY1988 Helen Alfredsson (1993) – 7 wins, 1 major, ROY1992 Annika Sorenstam (1995) – 72 wins, 10 majors, ROY1994 Jenny Lidback (1995) – 1 win Catrin Nilsmark (1999) – 1 win Maria Hjorth (1999) – 5 wins Charlotta Sorenstam (2000) – 1 win Sophie Gustafson (2000) – 5 wins Carin Koch (2001) – 2 wins Louise Friberg (2008) – 1 win Anna Nordqvist (2009) – 9 wins, 3 majors Pernilla Lindberg (2018) – 1 win Madelene Sagstrom (2020) – 1 win
I was only vaguely aware of the LPGA happenings back then (once attended the Boston Five Classic, and scanned the stories in Sports Illustrated) - much more a PGA fan - but I wonder about how the Japanese players were treated/accepted on tour by the players and press when they started appearing? I see in the index that Burnett discusses Japan later in the book (so maybe my answer is there). But does anyone on this forum recall how Japanese players were covered when they started winning? I know some of those on the list only won the annual tournament in Japan and were mainly JLPGA players.
Also, I see that he only briefly mentions Korean players in the book - 1 year into the LPGA playing a tournament over there, and after only 3 Koreans had won events. He notes in an aside, "(Golf is booming in Korea and a number of homegrown players, such as Seri Park [sic], who placed third in the Samsung World Championship behind Sorenstam and Alfredsson, and Grace Park, the top-rated junior golfer in the U.S., are making their mark internationally.)
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Post by don on Nov 2, 2021 10:27:51 GMT
One of the great triple comment posts since I’ve been reading SS.
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Post by HappyFan on Nov 2, 2021 14:37:53 GMT
Thanks for the info! When I was doing my run yesterday, I tried to see if I could remember them all. I even got Eunjung Yi, Sung Ah Yim and Bo Bae Song, but for some reason the four I missed were:
Chella Choi Jenny Shin (!) Ilhee Lee (but that was a weird event anyways; remember that they couldn't even play the entire course due to rain) and Jimin Kang. That last one is particularly surprising because I used to run her personal website (!!!).
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Post by rlspore on Nov 3, 2021 1:07:10 GMT
Thanks for the info! When I was doing my run yesterday, I tried to see if I could remember them all. I even got Eunjung Yi, Sung Ah Yim and Bo Bae Song, but for some reason the four I missed were: Chella Choi Jenny Shin (!) Ilhee Lee (but that was a weird event anyways; remember that they couldn't even play the entire course due to rain) and Jimin Kang. That last one is particularly surprising because I used to run her personal website (!!!). Nice - I definitely have not been seriously following LPGA long enough to remember all of them. But forgetting Chella and Shin?! - shocking! ...kidding, of course - your dedication to and knowledge about this stuff continually amazes me (same goes for some others on here too). This forum really helps stoke my love for the sport - glad to have found this niche.
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Post by sharrow on Nov 6, 2021 15:49:26 GMT
I saw a chart on the Korean web breaking down wins by country and number of winners from that country. Here's how South Korea ranks: 1 US 1527 wins, 195 different players 2 South Korea 200 wins, 48 different players 3 Sweden 118 wins, 12 different players 4 Australia 85 wins, 11 different players 5 Japan 51 wins, 15 different players 6 England 36 wins, 10 different players 7 Canada 34 wins, 10 different players 8 Mexico 29 wins, 2 different players 9 Taiwan 23 wins, 6 different players 10 Thailand 18 wins, 5 different players I think the 48 different winners stat is almost as amazing as the 200 total wins. I'm not sure I can name 'em all. Wish somehow it didn't occur to me how many the US has won. It's just... I dunno whether to laugh or cry. Sweden and Australia are kind of hilarious... Mostly the results of two people. 48 is pretty cool. Japan is a good mix too.
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Post by rlspore on Nov 7, 2021 7:38:21 GMT
Does anyone know the first non-US winner? It was a long time ago...
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