HSBC Women’s Champions
Sentosa Golf Club - Serapong Course
Singapore
March 6, 2016
Birthplace/Hometown – Seoul, South Korea
Birthdate – May 2, 1992 – currently 23 years, 9 months, 4 days
Qualified for LPGA Tour – Tied for 6th at the 2014 LPGA Final Qualifying School
Rookie Year – 2015
Turned Professional – 2010
VICTORIES
LPGA: Second career victory: 2016 Coates Golf Championship Presented by R+L Carriers
- Second victory in last four starts
KLPGA: Has six career victories in five seasons on the LPGA of Korea
RACE TO THE CME GLOBE
- Earns 500 points toward the Race to the CME Globe standings and remains 1st in the race with 1,290 points
ROLEX RANKINGS
- With her victory, Ha Na is projected to jump from No. 10 to No. 5 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings
- Will be the second-highest ranked South Korean player in the world, trailing only No. 2 Inbee Park
- Ha Na will move from the outside looking in to holding a spot on the current Korean UL International Crown and Olympic teams
MONEY
CAREER: With the $225,000 first-place check, Ha Na moves from 188th to 162nd on the LPGA Career Money List with $1,443,700
SEASON: Ha Na has earned $560,668 this season and remains first on the 2016 LPGA Tour Official Money List
TOURNAMENT SPECIFIC
- Wins the HSBC Women’s Champions in her first appearance at the event
- Joins Lorena Ochoa (in the event’s inaugural year of 2008) and Jiyai Shin (2009) as the only players to win in their debuts in the tournament’s nine-year history
- Ha Na becomes the third South Korean player to win this event, joining Jiyai Shin (2009) and Inbee Park (2015)
- Sets the tournament scoring record at Sentosa Golf Club with a 19-under par 269 four-day total, besting the 15-under par mark set by Stacy Lewis (2013) and Inbee Park (2015). Lorena Ochoa finished at 20-under par in 2008 at Tenah Merah Country Club
OF NOTE
- Becomes the first two-time winner of the 2016 season; marks the third win by a South Korean player in the first five events of the season
- Finished fourth in the 2015 Rolex Rookie of the Year standings and 15th on the 2015 LPGA Money List
- Was the KLPGA’s 2013 Player of the Year and money list title winner
2016 IN A NUTSHELL
- 5 events played, 5 cuts made, $560,668, 2 wins, top-10 finishes in all five starts
2015 RECAP
- 24 events played, 21 cuts made, $883,032, four runner-ups, and 4 additional top-10s
- Four runner-ups on the LPGA Tour before securing her first win last month
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