Updated: March, 2024

KAREN CHUNG

The Facts

Birthday: 28 in 2024
Rookie Year on LPGA: 2017
Birthplace: Livingston, NJ (?)
Best LPGA Finish: T-40th (2019 Lotte Championship)
Best LPGA Major Finish:
T-54th (2017 KPMG Women's PGA Championship)
Best Score: 67 (2017 Manulife LPGA Classic)
Best Scoring Average for a year:
72.13 (2017)
Best Season Money Total: $38,649 (2017)
Best Season Money Position: 138th (2017)

Most Top Tens/Season: 0
Rookie of the Year Finish: Well back

Height: 5' 5"
2024 LPGA Status: On Epson Tour

How's her English?: Fluent
Road to the LPGA: Finished t-19th at 2016 LPGA Q School to earn category 12 status on the LPGA for 2017.

 
Capsule Bio

Karen Chung grew up in Livingston, New Jersey. She was a top junior, making first team All-American in 2008, 2011 and 2012. She won back-to-back AJGA Championships in 2009 and 2010.

She attended college at USC, where she won three tournaments. In 2016, she attended LPGA Q-School and earned tour membership, so she left school shortly before graduation in 2017 to join the tour.

Karen made the cut in 8 out of 19 events in 2017 and lost her tour card. She did earn another card for 2019, but again was not able to keep it, and played from 2020 - 2022 on the Epson tour.

In 2022 she attended LPGA Q-Series and once again earned limited tour membership for 2023 by finishing tied for 28th. She played nine events in 2023 but only made one cut, at the team event. She lost her card for 2024 and will return full time to the Epson tour.

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