Hometown/Resides: Seoul, Republic of Korea

Birthdate: January 21, 1993; currently 27 years, 10 months and 1 day

Qualified for LPGA Tour: Finished T9 at the 2014 LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to first earn LPGA Tour membership

Turned Professional/Rookie Year: 2010/2015

VICTORIES
LPGA: 12th career victory
PREVIOUS WINS: 2015 Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic, 2015 LPGA LOTTE Championship presented by Hershey, 2015 Blue Bay LPGA, 2016 JTBC Founders Cup, 2016 Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, 2017 Citibanamex Lorena Ochoa Match Play presented by Aeroméxico and Delta, 2018 Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic, 2019 LPGA Mediheal Championship, 2019 Marathon Classic presented by Dana, 2019 CME Group Tour Championship, 2020 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship

KLPGA: Five career victories

RACE TO THE CME GLOBE

With her win, Kim earns 500 points and is projected to move from fourth to third with 1,554 points

MONEY

With her win, Kim earns $225,000; she has earned $1,133,219 this season and $9,799,895 in her career

2020 LPGA TOUR PERFORMANCE

Seven events played, seven cuts made, $1,133,219 earned; two wins, three additional top-10 finishes

OF NOTE

She hit 12 of 14 fairways and 12 of 18 greens, with 30 putts in the final round
Kim is the first champion of the Pelican Women’s Championship presented by DEX Imaging and Konica Minolta
Kim moves to No. 18 on the LPGA Tour career money list with $9,799,895, passing In Kyung Kim, Amy Yang and Catriona Matthew
Her tournament score of 14-under par 266 sets the 72-hole scoring record for Pelican Women’s Championship presented by DEX Imaging and Konica Minolta
She becomes the first individual to win in her first start after winning her first major since Ariya Jutanugarn at the 2016 AIG Women’s Open and CP Women’s Open
This is her 12th career LPGA Tour title, passing Jiyai Shin (11) on the all-time wins list of players from the Republic of Korea and trailing only Se Rei Pak (25) and Inbee Park (20)
This is Kim’s seventh event of the 2020 LPGA Tour season; she matched a career-best result with this win and a victory at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in early October
She earned the largest winner’s check in women’s golf history of $1.5 million with her win at the 2019 CME Group Tour Championship and also surpassed $8 million in career earnings
Her win at the 2018 Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic set the LPGA Tour 72-hole scoring record of 31-under par 257, breaking the mark of 27-under 261 held by Annika Sorenstam and Kim herself
Kim has recorded at least one win in every LPGA Tour season since 2015 (12 career wins)
She has recorded two wins in 2020, her fourth multi-win season since her rookie year of 2015
A third-degree black belt in taekwondo, her father owned a taekwondo academy in their native Republic of Korea

In The Winner's Circle with Sei Young Kim at Pelican Women's Championship

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