Country Club of Charleston | Charleston, S.C. | May 30 – June 2, 2019

Hometown/Resides: Yongin, Republic of Korea/Gyeonggi-Do, Republic of Korea

Birthdate: May 28, 1996; currently 23 years and 5 days

Qualified for LPGA Tour: Earned medalist honors at the 2018 LPGA Q Series

Turned Professional/Rookie Year: 2016/2019

With her win, Lee6 becomes a Rolex First-Time Winner on the LPGA Tour

KLPGA: six wins

With her win, Lee6 earns 625 points and is projected to move from 14th to third in the Race to the CME Globe with 1,417 points

With her win, Lee6 earns 60 points and becomes eligible to win the award at the end of the season

With her win, Lee6 earns $1,000,000; she has earned $1,353,836 for her career

2018 – T17; 2017 – T5

Nine events played, nine cuts made, $1,353,836, one victory, three additional top-10 finishes and no finish worse than a tie for 26th

Lee6 is the third Rolex First-Time Winner of the 2019 LPGA Tour season, joining Celine Boutier (ISPS Handa Vic Open) and Bronte Law (Pure Silk Championship presented by Visit Williamsburg)
She is the 19th player to make the U.S. Women’s Open her first LPGA Tour victory
She is the 16th player from the Republic of Korea to win a major, the most of any country other than the United States
This is the fourth straight year that at least one major winner was a Rolex First-Time Winner
Prior to today, Lee6’s best LPGA Tour finish was a tie for second at the 2019 LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship, where she lost in a playoff
Lee6 currently leads the Rolex Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year standings with 752 points
Lee6 is the daughter of Jung Ho Lee and Eun Ji Ju; her father, a truck driver, was paralyzed in a truck accident when she was 4 and she plays to help support her family

In the Winner’s Circle with Jeongeun Lee6

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