박성현, 메이저 KPMG 여자 PGA 챔피언십 우승..."그간 부진 말소" VIDEO: In a season of searching, Sung Hyun Park finds her game and wins the KPMG Women's PGA

In a season of searching, Sung Hyun Park finds her game and wins the KPMG Women's PGA

Gregory Shamus

The problem with a dominant rookie season is that you're expected to follow it up the next year. In chasing and achieving success, you're left with the daunting expectations of winning again, and again, in the seasons that follow. When those wins come, it's great. When they don't, it's confusing and frustrating.

KILDEER, IL - JULY 01: Sung Hyun Park of Korea reacts after making a birdie putt on the second playoff hole to win the 2018 KPMG PGA Championship at Kemper Lakes Golf Club on July 1, 2018 in Kildeer, Illinois. Park won on the second playoff hole. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

박성현, 메이저 KPMG 여자 PGA 챔피언십 우승..."그간 부진 말소"

 

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LPGA 투어 통산 4승

유소연 공동 2위

박성현(25)이 메이저 대회 우승으로 최근 부진을 씻었다. 

박성현은 2일(한국시간) 미국 일리노이주 킬디어 켐퍼 레이크스 골프클럽(파72·6741야드)에서 열린 미국여자프로골프(LPGA) 투어 시즌 세 번째 메이저 대회 KPMG 여자 PGA 챔피언십에서 연장 접전 끝에 유소연(28), 하타오카 나사(일본)를 따돌리고 정상에 올랐다.

LPGA

LPGA 투어 데뷔 첫 우승이었던 지난해 7월 US여자오픈 이후 1년 만에 거둔 메이저 대회 2승째이자 LPGA 투어 통산 4승째. LPGA 투어에서 메이저 2승 이상을 거둔 것은 박성현이 39번째다.

한국 골퍼로는 1998년과 2002년, 2006년의 박세리(43), 2013년~2015년 박인비(30)에 이은 세 번째 KPMG 여자 PGA 챔피언십 우승이다

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In 2017, the 24-year-old from South Korea won the U.S. Women's Open, the Canadian Pacific Women's Open and had four other top-three finishes. She finished the season not only with Rookie of the Year honors but was named co-Player of the Year with So Yeon Ryu, just the second time a first-year player has claimed that honor.

Yet heading into Thursday's first round of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, the third major on the LPGA calendar, Park had played 12 events in 2018 and missed the cut in five of them. She'd won once, the Texas Volunteers of America Shootout, which was abbreviated to 36 holes. Besides that win, she'd finished in the top 20 only one other time. The player who looked as if she would dominate the LPGA was doing the opposite.

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