Who Is Amy Yang? All You Need To Know About the LPGA Veteran From South Korea

Born in South Korea in 1989, Amy Yang is a veteran golfer on the LPGA Tour playing on it since 2008. Yang started playing golf at the early age of 10 in her homeland and to make a career in the sport moved from Korea to Australia five years later. During her amateur career, Yang won the Queensland Amateur Championship, which made her the youngest winner ever of that championship.

The next year was a milestone in her amateur career as she won the ANZ Ladies Masters on LET at the age of 16 and that made her the youngest player to win on the Tour. This record was maintained for 192 days. As a professional, she has many achievements to boast about. However, lately, she had a halt in her career due to an unfortunate accident. As Yang rises from the ashes once again this year, let’s learn more about the LPGA veteran.

Amy Yang’s accomplishments in professional career

After winning the ANZ Ladies Masters, Yang was given a special three-year membership exemption by LET. Then she passed the qualification for LPGA in 2007. 2008 was the rookie year of the 34-year-old in the traditional league. Since then she has acquired four wins on the Tour. Her first victory came in 2013 at the LPGA KEB-HanaBank Championship. She wrapped the match with -9 to par and defeated Hee-Kyung Seo in a sudden-death playoff hole. She followed it up with the Honda LPGA Thailand in 2015 and has been a two-time defending champion in 2017 and 2019 by winning it twice again.

In the majors also she has delivered good results and has numerous top-ten finishes over the last decade. Her best finish was at the US Women’s Open, where she secured the runner-up position 2012. She also scored another win on the Ladies European Tour in 2008 at the Ladies German Open, Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika. After winning the event, she very generously donated her first-place earnings to the victims of the earthquake in China’s Sichuan province.

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Apart from that, she also played in her country on the KLPGA and has won two tournaments there. One was the KB Star Championship in 2011 and the LPGA KEB-HanaBank Championship in 2013 which was co-sanctioned by LPGA Tour. She has a total of 8 professional wins in her career so far. She ranks number 36 in the world on the Rolex ranking and has 968.400 on the Race to CME points. On LPGA she has earned $1,165,834 and her total career earning to date is $11,882,919.

Comeback and revival in 2023 after injury.

Some time ago Yang ended up with a tennis elbow which was caused by rock climbing at the gym. It gave her a lot of trouble and physical pain. Yang even gave up the hope of having a stable golf career. She took some time to heal herself. 2023 has been like a revival for the Korean golfer and she has displayed some impressive finishes while recovering.

This week she is performing at the LPGA finale of the CME Championship, where is currently leading the event. During the event, she also spoke about her injury and how much improvement she has made health-wise. She says, “When I first had tennis elbow on my left arm I thought my career would be done very soon, so that wasn’t very nice. So I’m glad, I think I’m 100% fully back, so I’m just happy where I am, yeah.”

She continued, “I couldn’t hit through the ball. I lost a lot of distance and was scared about going for it and it took a while. I’m fully back now.” Other than this she finished on 16 in the Drive On Championship And finished in the 4th position at the AIG Women’s Open, and the Annika Driven. She was third in the Meijer Classic. The seasoned player seemed to be back in her old form now.

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