Player Biography

DANIELLE KANG

Birthdate: October 20, 1992

Birthplace: San Francisco, Calif.

Age: 14

Home: Oak Park, Calif.


Player Notes: Qualified for U.S. Women's Open at Lake Merced Country Club in Daly City, Calif., with a 150 total. … member of International Junior Golf Tour … also participated in the AJGA, the FCWT and the California Junior Tour … her golf coach, Kevin Scheller, will be her caddie at the Open … her most memorable golf moment was when she got a hole-in-one at Lindero Country Club … her lowest competitive score is a 69 at Trophy Lakes … won the 2007 Hunter Ranch … was runner-up at the 2007 Trophy Lakes in Washington … her superstitions are that she has to use No. 4 golf balls and always wears blue on the last day of any tournaments … at high school, she plays on the boys' team at Oak Park, since there is no girls' team, competed in seven matches as a freshman and was the team's fourth-leading scorer … said that qualifying for the U.S. Open was a gift to her grandfather, who passed away recently in Korea … said she is an independent person and that she qualified for the Women’s Open all by herself; she got a ride to qualifying on her own because of her grandfather's funeral and called her parents after she qualified … enjoys scrap-booking, drawing, painting, taking pictures, hanging out with friends, playing Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero.