Updated: June, 2016

KRISTEN PARK

The Facts

Birthday: December 27, 1992
Rookie Year on LPGA: Not on tour
Birthplace: Buena Park, CA
Best LPGA Finish:
CUT
Best LPGA Major Finish:
CUT
Height: 5' 9"
2016 LPGA Status: None
Nicknames: None Known
How's her English?: Fluent
Road to the LPGA: Not on tour

Capsule Bio

Kristen Park is a southern California girl who made her first big splash in amateur golf in 2007. Early in the year, Kristen won the prestigious Kathy Whitworth Invitational over a field stacked with top golf talent. Soon after that, she was the runner-up at the AJGA Rolex Tournament of Champions. She achieved all this while not yet in high school; she became a freshman in fall of 2007.

But her biggest result came at the US Girls Junior in July. This was only her first ever match play event, but she finished fourth in the stroke play portion and never looked back. She went on to win the event, the fourth youngest girl to ever do so.

At one point, her achievements in this and other events allowed her to climb briefly to the top of the AJGA rankings. She was named to the Canon Cup and Solheim Junior teams. In Sweden, she teamed for several wins for the American Solheim squad. At the end of the year, she was named a first team Rolex Junior All American, the second youngest girl to ever receive that honor.

Kristen made the Solheim team again in 2009, and won all three of her matches. She remains undefeated in that event.

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Park continued to excel in 2010. She was named the Rolex Player of the Year that season, accumulating wins at the Ping Invitational, the Rolex Tournament of Champions, and the Under Armour/Hunter Mahan Championship. She also reached the quarterfinals in the US Women's Amateur and was a team member of the winning US team at the Junior Ryder Cup.

Park matriculated at USC in 2011 and joined their golf team. Earlier in the year she had played at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, but missed the cut. In the Spring of 2012, Kristen dropped out of school and turned pro. She played in one LPGA event after that, the Manulife Classic, but missed the cut there.

Park does not currently have status on the LPGA or Symetra Tours. In 2015, she played a few events in Canada, but otherwise her whereabouts are unknown.

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