It's Official - Annie Park Earns LPGA Card
October 18, 2015 | Women's Golf
Courtesy the Symetra Tour
The Symetra Tour, Road to the LPGA, handed out 10 LPGA Tour cards for the 2016 season following the Symetra Tour Championship at LPGA International on Sunday and three-time All-American Annie Park highlighted the list as the top money winner on the tour ($68,673).
The top 10 finishers on the Symetra Tour's Volvik Race for the Card money list will play full-time on the LPGA Tour through category nine on the LPGA priority list.
Park came onto the scene in mid-June after finishing her junior season at USC. She finished T19 at her first professional event (Four Winds Invitational). One month later, she won her first professional event at the Toyota Danielle Downey Classic, holding off a late surge by Vicky Hurst. Two weeks later, Park proved that her first win was far from a fluke as she captured the PHC Classic in a playoff over Lee Lopez. In early September, Park won the Prairie Band Casino & Resort Charity Classic. Park is the only player in the top 10 that played in fewer than 15 events.
Park on Earning her LPGA Tour Card
"It means a lot to earn my card. It has been a lifelong dream to play on Tour and to finally get status is unbelievable. I still can't believe that I got my card, but I'm going to have to believe it next year."
Notables
• Park is the first player to win Symetra Tour Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year since Mina Harigae in 2009. Since 1999, the other players to win both in the same year are Vicky Hurst (2008), Song-Hee Kim (2006), Lorena Ochoa (2002), Beth Bauer (2001) and Grace Park (1999).
• Park is the 11th player to win at least three times in a single-season in Symetra Tour history.
• Park finished in the top 20 in nine of 11 events
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