Gina Kim (golfer)


Gina Kim is an American amateur golfer.

Background

Kim was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to parents of Korean origin. They moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, when Gina was age 3. She took up golfing at age 7, encouraged by her parents, who both played golf before becoming professors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. By mid-2014 and at age 14, she was ranked the No. 1 female junior golfer in North Carolina. She graduated from Chapel Hill High School and joined Duke University women's golf team in August 2018.

Career

Throughout her junior career, Kim collected 27 top-10 AJGA finishes. She was a two-time North Carolina 3A state high school champion and competed in the Evian Junior Cup in 2014. In 2016, Kim won the AJGA Rolex Junior Girls Championship, her first AJGA Invitational Tournament. Kim represented the United States at the Junior Ryder Cup and the Junior Solheim Cup. Two-time Rolex Junior All-America Kim, qualified for the 2018 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship. Kim joined the Duke University women's golf team starting with the 2018–19 season, competed in all four fall collegiate tournaments,and won individually the Landfall Tradition at the County Club of Landfall in Wilmington, North Carolina, as the team won the tournament. In the spring 2019, Kim played in six collegiate tournaments including the ACC and NCAA National Championship and made a great contribution to the team victory in NCAA National Championship. With the victory, the Duke women's golf team is now seven-time national champion, and remains the winningest program in Duke history. Kim competed in the U.S. Women's Open and shot an opening-round, 5-under 66, which matches the lowest round for an amateur in U.S. Women's Open history. She followed with rounds of 72-73-72 for a 1-under total that left her tied for 12th and claimed low-amateur honors.

Amateur wins

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U.S. national team appearances