Se Ri Pak, South Korean golfer retires and leaves a legacy
October 19, 2016 10:22 AM   Subscribe

Se Ri Pak recently retired from her astonishing 18 year LPGA career, after winning 25 LPGA Tour titles and five majors, two of them during a rookie season in 1998 that "gave women's golf its biggest boost since Nancy Lopez." She was the youngest player to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2007, but she qualified two years earlier, when she was 28 and had to wait to meet the minimum career length rule. Pak won 14 times on the Korean LPGA and captained South Korea's Olympic team in Rio, where Inbee Park won the gold medal. Park is one of the Se Ri Kids, a generation of golfers, mostly South Korean women, many who were inspired by her 1998 performance in the US Women's Open. Parting video: players, friends and fans salute Se Ri Pak as she plays her last LPGA round.
posted by filthy light thief (3 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
Oh man. Not to mention Se Ri Parents, a generation of Korean American immigrant parents, who were inspired to imagine their teenage children as golfers. I spent one miserable summer late afternoon to twilight out on the county golf course getting eaten by mosquitos because my parents really thought that uncoordinated me might exhibit some kind of aptitude as a golfer. 55 mosquito bites that night. 55.
posted by spamandkimchi at 11:51 AM on October 19, 2016 [3 favorites]


I don't even care about golf, but I love her. Way to be a trailblazer, Se Ri Pak.
posted by imnotasquirrel at 1:49 PM on October 19, 2016


Great post.
posted by persona au gratin at 11:47 PM on October 19, 2016


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