Minny Yeo: The Seoul Sisters Magazine
Exclusive Interview

Minny Yeo on the practice range on Saturday
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SS: What would you consider your goals for this year, next year? Do you have specific goals, or do you just come out here and make your card, play as well as you can?

MY: You'd be surprised what my goals are. Do you have the time? (laughs)

SS: Sure, sure! If you have the time, I do!

MY: I'll be out here ten, fifteen more years.

SS: Excellent!

MY: Later, I'm going to go into the restaurant business, and my clothing, hats... I have a lot of ideas for golf bags, hats.

SS: Are the clothes and the golf bags things you have input into?

MY: I design them, yes.

MY: Actually, I bought this (hat), but to give you an idea... you've seen my bag?

SS: Yes, I've seen your bag, yes...

MY: I designed it.

SS: Did you?

MY: I picked out the color, and my husband, he has a bag business, so he made it for me, actually. We're trying to build something up.

SS: Oh! Do you have a website or anything?

MY: I don't know what he's working on, but I really don't know... He's taking care of everything so I can focus on golf (at) this time. My goal is, I'm trying to work on playing better, so people know who I am. And later, I'd like to help abused kids. That's my final goal.

SS: Excellent!

MY: (At) this time I'm just playing golf, just trying to enjoy it. There are a lot of kids in Korea and China... lot of abused kids out there, and hungry people.

SS: Specifically in Korea you would want to do that?

MY: This country, too, actually. We need some better system. What I see when I travel everywhere, and I see twenty different (systems). I really feel like, maybe God wants me to go out there and look what's going on. Maybe I'm the one who should help out. So I keep looking, studying. I'd like to know what I can do.

SS: Well, it sounds like you have a pretty full life outside of golf. Do you have any hobbies that you like to do?

Minny's bag
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Minny on Friday
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MY: My hobbies... I love shopping! Between playing and working out, I don't have much time... but I do shopping and cooking. I love cooking. That's why I told you I'm going to go into the restaurant business.

SS: Korean food?

MY: I can cook Korean, Japanese, Chinese. I'm going to cooking school end of this year. I'm going to get a license.

SS: Wow. In California?

MY: Uh huh. (Affecting a comic voice) Sushiman (laughs)!

SS: (laughs)

MY: Every year I'm going to (learn) a different food. Like, thirty day, sixty day cooking school, so I can get a license and learn about food.

SS: Wow, that's really cool. Do you eat a lot of non-Asian food, or is it mostly Asian food that you are interested in?

MY: I eat everything. My problem is, I love food (laughs). I just love food.

SS: Well, do you do a lot of working out? Because you don't look like you're overweight...

MY: I work out a lot. I eat a lot. I work out a lot, because I know how much I eat.

SS: What kind of working out do you do?

MY: I do a lot of Tae-bo... Tae-bo and Pilates. Try to get some volume (points to lower body). I don't want to work out on heavy machine stuff, and build up really big, fatty muscles. I don't want that.

SS: Would that help your game? I don't really know.

MY: Uh uh.

SS: What are the strengths of your game, and what are the weaknesses? What do you think you do really well?

MY: Honestly, my caddie told me my irons are really good. Pretty accurate.

SS: Do you hit a lot of greens in regulation?

MY: Yeah, that's me. I hit a lot of fairways, greens. I used to have a problem with putting, but my putting is getting better.

SS: Was it tricky when you came here? It seems like a lot of the Koreans players when they come here don't putt that well, and I wonder if it's (mainly) a difference in the grass (used on greens)?

MY: Yep. Uh huh. Very different.

SS: So how long did it take you to get used to the grass here? Or have you gotten used to it yet?

MY: I really feel like the greens are different, and the weather. It's kind of a combination. Some players, they figure it out fast, in a year, a year and a half. Some players take like three, four years.

SS: So how about you? Do you think you've picked up putting in the States yet?

MY: Yeah, I'm getting better, getting better.