Chella Choi | |
Fullname: | Woon-jung Choi |
Birth Date: | 25 August 1990 |
Birth Place: | Daegu, South Korea |
Residence: | Jacksonville, Florida |
Yearpro: | 2008 |
Tour: | LPGA Tour (2009–) |
Extour: | Futures Tour (2008) |
Prowins: | 1 |
Lpgawins: | 1 |
Nabisco: | T16: 2014 |
Lpga: | 3rd: 2017 |
Wusopen: | T13: 2011 |
Wbritopen: | T10: 2012 |
Evian: | T6: 2013 |
Award1: | William and Mousie Powell Award |
Year1: | 2014 |
Hangul: | 최운정 |
Rr: | Choe Un jeong |
Mr: | Ch'oe Un jŏng |
Woon-jung "Chella" Choi (born 25 August 1990)[1] is a South Korean professional golfer.
Choi played on the Duramed Futures Tour in 2008 with a best finish of T-2 at the Bright House Networks Open. She earned her 2009 LPGA Tour card at LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament, having to earn her card through a playoff.
Her first professional victory came on 19 July 2015, at the LPGA Tour's Marathon Classic, where she defeated Jang Ha-na in a playoff. The win happened after seven years and 157 LPGA Tour events. For the first eight years of Choi's professional career, her father was her caddie and vowed to remain until she won.
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2012 | Brittany Lang Inbee Park Hee Kyung Seo | Lang won with birdie on third extra hole Park eliminated by birdie on second hole Choi eliminated by birdie on first hole | ||
2 | 2015 | Marathon Classic | Won with par on first extra hole |
Results not in chronological order before 2023.
Tournament | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chevron Championship | CUT | T49 | ||
Women's PGA Championship | T53 | T47 | CUT | T36 |
U.S. Women's Open | 61 | T13 | CUT | |
CUT | T54 | T10 | ||
Tournament | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chevron Championship | T32 | T16 | CUT | T45 | T47 | T40 | T35 | CUT | |
Women's PGA Championship | T5 | T22 | T26 | T8 | 3 | T57 | T30 | T48 | |
U.S. Women's Open | T25 | T15 | T20 | T32 | CUT | T41 | T26 | T23 | |
The Evian Championship ^ | T6 | CUT | T25 | T39 | T48 | T16 | T22 | NT | |
CUT | T38 | T50 | T40 | T30 | CUT | CUT |
Tournament | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chevron Championship | CUT | T53 | T49 | |
Women's PGA Championship | T33 | T16 | CUT | |
U.S. Women's Open | CUT | |||
The Evian Championship | T38 | T60 | CUT | |
T59 | CUT |
Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 9 | ||
0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 13 | ||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 9 | ||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 8 | ||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | ||
Totals | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 62 | 46 |