Updated: March, 2023

JE YOON YANG

The Facts
Birthday: June 26, 1992
Rookie Year on KLPGA: 2011
Birthplace: South Korea
Best LPGA Finish: T-45th (2012 KEB Hana Bank Championship)
Best LPGA Major Finish: CUT
Height: 5' 7"
2023 LPGA Status: On the KLPGA
Nicknames: AKA Ji Seung Yang
Sponsors: Footjoy
How's her English?: Unknown
Hobbies: Unknown
Road to the LPGA: Plays on the KLPGA

Capsule Bio

Je Yoon Yang joined the KLPGA tour in 2011. She had a moderately successful rookie season, finishing 44th on the money list with 3 top tens. Her best finish was a 3rd.

2012 was Yang's breakout season. The fun started when she collected a fifth place finish at the third event of the year. She followed that the next week with a fourth. But it was not until the second half of the year that her game really took off. She scored her first career win at the Nefs Masterpiece, and for the next several months, she was in the top ten finishers more often than not. As a result, she soon climbed to the top of the Player of the Year race.

Ha Neul Kim, the previous Player of the Year, was also playing well, and when she won the Rush & Cash Classic in October, she took the lead from Yang in the Player of the Year standings. For the rest of the season, the two duked it out for the top spot. Yang had a third at the year's third Major, the Hite Cup, and a second at the final Major. When she finished fourth at the Kim Young Joo Women's Open, she moved to within just a few points of Ha Neul. Whoever finished ahead of the other in the year's final event would be Player of the Year. Amazingly, it was Yang: while Kim faltered, Yang not only beat her but won the tournament.

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So Yang became the 2012 KLPGA Player of the Year, and finished fourth on the money list with over 406 million won earned. She earned 9 top tens in 2012, 7 of which were top fives.

Yang's follow up to her Player of the Year surprise was nowhere near as strong. She only finished 60th on the money list, with only one top ten all year, a 10th place finish. She made just 50 million won all year.

2014 was the much the same; she finished 61st that year, with 67 million won earned. Her best finish was a 9th.

In 2015, Yang finished 66th on the money list, with her best finish a pair of 14th place finishes. In the three years since her Player of the Year award, she has finished in the 60s on the money list all three years.

In 2016, Yang was given a sponsor's invite to the LPGA's Kia Classic, but missed the cut. Shortly after that, she decided to change her name to 'Ji Seung Yang' for unknown reasons. When she returned to action on the KLPGA, she was not able to maintain her status on tour, and after just two events, fell back to the Dream Tour for the rest of the season.

She remained on the Dream Tour into 2017. Things started to look up for her, though, as she won her first professional title in five years on the Dream Tour in mid-April. She was not able to regain KLPGA membership, however, and still played mostly on the Dream Tour in 2018. Note that she does seem to have resumed using the 'Je Yoon Yang' moniker.

Yang continued for the most part on the Dream Tour in 2019, although she did play three times on the KLPGA. Her best finish there was a 47th place. She continued on the Dream Tour in 2020 and 2021. She didn't play there in 2022, but tried and failed to get a tour card for the KLPGA at the end of the year.
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