“Pro” File – Touring Professional Sung Hyun Park

The pipeline from Korea keeps producing winner after winner on the LPGA Tour, and the latest to take the tour by storm is Sung Hyun Park, winner of the recently-completed Canadian Pacific Women’s Open. After dominating the Korean Ladies Professional Golf Tour the past two seasons with 10 wins, she came to the LPGA Tour full-time in 2017 and quickly made her mark.

Park scored four top-10 finishes the first half of the 2017 season before her breakthrough victory at the U.S. Women’s Open in July. She followed that up with another top-10 finish the very next week at the Marathon Classic, paving the way to another victory in Canada. She is currently number one on the LPGA money list, quickly surpassing such luminaries as Lexi Thompson, Lydia Ko and Ariya Jutanugarn.

Her game appears to have almost no weaknesses, as she is currently ranked 7th in driving distance, 8th in greens in regulation and 7th in putts per greens in regulation. The only potential problem could be her short game, where she is ranked 120th in sand saves. But watching her play, it’s easy to see why she has been dominant. One television analyst called her swing one of the best in the game, whether male or female. Time will tell if Park will become the next true superstar of the LPGA Tour, but at this stage, it would be foolish to bet against her.