Blue Bay LPGA
Jian Lake Blue Bay Golf Club
Hainan Island, China
Nov. 11, 2017
Hometown/Resides: Guangzhou, China/Guangzhou, China
Birthdate: August 5, 1989 – currently 28 years, 3 months, 6 days
Qualified for LPGA Tour: Finished tied for ninth at the 2007 LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament
Turned Professional: 2007
VICTORIES
LPGA: Ninth career LPGA victory and third of the season
PREVIOUS LPGA WINS: 2012 Wegmans LPGA Championship, 2013 Reignwood LPGA Classic, 2013 CME Group Titleholders, 2014 Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia, 2016 Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia, 2016 TOTO Japan Classic, 2017 LPGA Volvik Championship, 2017 TOTO Japan Classic
RACE TO CME GLOBE
- Earns 500 points toward the Race to the CME Globe and is projected to move from 5th to 2nd in the standings with 3,147 points
- The top five finishers entering Naples will control their own destiny at the CME Group Tour Championship
- If a player in the top five wins in Naples, she will also win the $1M CME Globe
MONEY
- CAREER: With the $315,000 first-place check, Shanshan is projected to move from 15th to 14th on the LPGA Career Money List with $9,710,523; she is now $477,462 behind No. 13 Angela Stanford
- SEASON: Shanshan has earned $1,703,326 this season and is projected to move from 6th to 3rd on the LPGA Tour Official Money List
PREVIOUS BLUE BAY LPGA RESULTS
2015 – T14; 2014 – T7
2017 IN A NUTSHELL ON THE LPGA
- 21 events, 19 cuts made, $1,703,326, 3 victories, 12 top-10 finishes
OF NOTE
- With the victory Shanshan Feng is projected to rise to No. 1 in the Rolex Rankings; the first-ever Chinese player (male or female) to get to World No. 1
- The victory is Shanshan Feng’s second-career win in her home country of China; she won the 2013 Reignwood LPGA Classic in Beijing
- Feng is the first player to win back-to-back tournaments since she accomplished the feat last year (Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia and TOTO Japan Classic)
- Shanshan Feng becomes the second player on Tour this season with more than two victories joining In-Kyung Kim (ShopRite LPGA Classic, Marathon Classic, Ricoh Women's British Open)
- Won the Bronze Medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics
- Has six career JLPGA wins and seven career wins on the Ladies European Tour where she became the first Chinese player to win the LET Order of Merit in 2015
- Became a Rolex First-Time Winner and the first-ever Chinese winner on the LPGA Tour at the 2012 Wegman's LPGA Championship
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