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Player Bio: Mi Jung Hur2020 U.S. Women's Open

 

Age: 30
Country: Republic of Korea
College: None
Worldwide professional victories: 5 (4 on LPGA Tour)
Exempt status: Top 30 points leader in LPGA Tour’s 2019 Race to the CME Globe; winner of LPGA Tour-sanctioned events from conclusion of 2019 U.S. Women’s Open to originally scheduled 2020 U.S. Women’s Open; Top 75 in Rolex Rankings as of March 16

Hur ended a five-year victory drought in 2019 by winning a pair of tournaments. She captured the Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish Open, in August and followed it up a month later by winning the Indy Women in Tech Championship. Both were four-stroke victories and pushed Hur’s worldwide victory total to five. In 2017, Hur tied for third at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., her best finish by far in nine U.S. Women’s Open starts. Her only other top-10 finish in a major championship came when she tied for third in the 2014 Evian Championship.

U.S. Women's Open Playing Record

YEAR

SITE

SCORES

TO PAR

FINISH

2020 Champions Golf Club 78-WD +7 WD

2018

Shoal Creek

83-76

+15

MC

2017

Trump National Golf Club (Old Course)

71-72-70-68—281

-7

T-3

2016

CordeValle

74-76

+6

MC

2015

Lancaster Country Club

73-69-76-76—294

+14

62nd

2013

Sebonack Golf Club

75-71-75-76—297

+9

T-25

2012

Blackwolf Run

80-71

+7

MC

2011

The Broadmoor (East Course)

74-76

+8

MC

2010

Oakmont Country Club

70-81-74-72—297

+13

T-31

2009

Saucon Valley C.C. (Old Course)

78-75

+11

MC