GRACE PARK

Birthdate: March 6, 1979

Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea

Age: 29 Ht.: 5’6"

Home: Scottsdale, Ariz.

College: Arizona State & Ewha Women’s University

Turned Professional: 1999

Joined LPGA Tour: 2000

LPGA Tour Victories: 6 - 2000 Kathy Ireland Greens.com LPGA Classic. 2001 The Office Depot, 2002 CISCO World Ladies Match Play Championship, 2003 Michelob Light Open At Kingsmill, 2004 Kraft Nabisco Championship, CJ Nine Bridges Classic Presented By Sports Today

PLAYER NOTES

2007 Highlights

Recorded a season-best tie for 11th at the LPGA Corning Classic.

Carded a season-low 65 during the third round of the Safeway International Presented by Coca-Cola, where she tied for 16th. 2007 Stats (rank)

Rds under par: 10/41 (90) Rds in the 60s: 5/41 (62) Birdies: 112 (118)

Eagles: 4 (20) Greens in Reg: 52.2% (148) Driving Accuracy: 49.6% (149)

Sand Saves: 46.3% (25) Putts per GIR: 1.82 (30) Driving Avg: 262.6 (11)

2006 Highlights

Recorded a season-best tie for 13th at the SBS Open at Turtle Bay, where she carded a season-low 66 during the first round.

Also shot 66 during the first round of the Franklin American Mortgage Championship benefiting the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, where she tied for 23rd.

Was limited to only 15 events because of recurring neck and back injuries.

Captained Team Asia to a one-point victory over Team International at the Lexus Cup.

2006 Stats (rank)

Rds under par: 16/44 (70) Rds in the 60s: 3/44 (129) Birdies: 138 (112)

Eagles: 4 (31) Greens in Reg: 60.8% (133) Driving Accuracy: 61.3% (147)

Sand Saves: 46.7% (17) Putts per GIR: 1.78 (16) Driving Avg: 264 (13)

2005 Highlights

Recorded a season-best finish at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, where she tied for fifth.

Also recorded top 10s at: Franklin American Mortgage Championship benefiting the Monroe Carell, Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt (10); Weetabix Women’s British Open (T8); and the CJ Nine Bridges Classic (T6), where she crossed the $5 million mark in career earnings.

Carded a season-low 66 in the second round of the Samsung World Championship, where she tied for 14th.

2005 Stats (rank)

Rds under par: 30/67 (19) Rds in the 60s: 17/67 (12) Birdies: 237 (30)

Eagles: 4 (23) Greens in Reg: 67% (53) Driving Accuracy: 69% (117)

Sand Saves: 44.3% (23) Putts per GIR: 1.80 (20) Driving Avg: 256.5 (19)

2004 Highlights

Won two tournaments, her fifth and sixth LPGA titles: Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first major championship of the year; and the CJ Nine Bridges Classic Presented by Sports Today.

Won her first Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average of the season with an average of 69.99, .03 ahead of Lorena Ochoa.

Recorded 12 top-10 finishes, including seven runner-ups and three third-place finishes.

Posted her career-low round of 61 during the third round of the Welch's/Fry's Championship, where she tied for second.

Crossed the $4 million mark in career earnings at the Wachovia LPGA Classic Hosted by Betsy King, where she finished second.

Won the Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge, an unofficial event, with Cristie Kerr and Juli Inkster.

2004 Stats (Rank)

Rds under par:56/85 (4) Rds in the 60s: 40/85 (3) Birdies: 358 (5)

Eagles: 12 (4) Greens in Reg: 68.2% (35) Driving Accuracy: 68.6% (102)

Sand Saves: 44.2% (15) Putts per GIR: 1.74 (1) Driving Avg: 267.9 (4)

2003 Highlights

Won her fourth career title at the Michelob Light Open at Kingsmill with a dramatic birdie putt on the final hole.

Lost a sudden-death playoff against Annika Sorenstam at the McDonald's LPGA Championship Presented by AIG, one of the LPGA's four majors, and was the runner-up at the Safeway PING Presented by Yoplait.

On the strength of 19 top-10 finishes, finished third on the ADT Official Money List with $1,417,702 in earnings, marking the first time in her career she crossed the $1 million mark in single-season earnings.

Tied for second at the Longs Drugs Challenge, the CJ Nine Bridges Classic Presented by Sports Today and the Mizuno Classic, finished third at the Wegmans Rochester LPGA and tied for third at the BMO Financial Group Canadian Women's Open, the Sybase Big Apple Classic presented by Lincoln Mercury and the Weetabix Women's British Open.

Carded a career-low 63 in the second round of the Welch's/Fry's Championship, where she tied for fourth.

Led the Tour with 46 rounds in the 60s, which tied the LPGA's single-season record (Kelly Robbins, 1997), and in birdies with 403, marking just the second time a player recorded 400 birdies in one season (Maria Hjorth, 408, 1999).

Finished second to Se Ri Pak by .08 points in the race for the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average.

2003 Stats (Rank)

Rds under par: 62/92 (3) Rds in the 60s: 46/92 (1) Birdies: 403 (1)

Eagles: 9 (8) Greens in Reg: 68.1% (25) Driving Accuracy: 66.6% (110)

Sand Saves: 40% (51) Putts per GIR: 1.74 (1) Driving Avg: 266.5 (5)

2002 Highlights

Won the third title of her three-year career at the CISCO World Ladies Match Play Championship, where she defeated Midori Yoneyama 1 up after 22 holes.

Posted a total of 12 top-10 finishes, including second place at the Mizuno Classic, third place at the Aerus Electrolux USA Championship Hosted by Vince Gill and Amy Grant and ties for third at the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic and Welch's/Circle K Championship, where she closed with a career-low 64.

Originally posted her career-low round of 64 during the second round of the season-opening LPGA Takefuji Classic, where she tied for sixth; also shot 64 during the second round of the Kellogg-Keebler Classic.

Led the Tour in birdies with 358.

Crossed the $1 million mark in career earnings after a tie for fifth at the Longs Drugs Challenge.

2002 Stats (rank)

Rds under par: 48/91 (14) Rds in the 60s: 30/91 (8) Birdies: 358 (1)

Eagles: 8 (9) Greens in Reg: 67.7% (23) Driving Accuracy: 67.5% (112)

Sand Saves: 53.2% (3) Putting Avg: 29.23 (14) Driving Avg: 263.9 (7)

2001 Highlights

Won her second career title at The Office Depot, the third event of the season, defeating Karrie Webb by one stroke.

Posted a total of six top-10 finishes, including a third-place finish at the AFLAC Champions Presented by Southern Living.

Tied her career-low round of 66 at the LPGA Corning Classic, where she tied for fourth.

2001 Stats (rank)

Rds under par: 41/86 (21) Rds in the 60s: 22/86 (25) Birdies: 285 (22)

Eagles: 6 (23) Greens in Reg: 66.5% (54) Driving Accuracy: 61.6% (165)

Sand Saves: 36.8% (116) Putting Avg: 29.92 (45) Driving Avg: 255.30 (17)

Career Highlights

In 2000, became a Rolex First-Time Winner at the Kathy Ireland Greens.com LPGA Classic, after carding her season and career-low 66 during the first round; runner-up in the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year race behind Dorothy Delasin; suffered an intercostal rib muscle injury in August which forced her to pull out of events for five weeks and hampered her play throughout the end of the season.

In 1999, earned exempt status on the LPGA Tour by placing first on the 1999 SBC Futures Tour money list (she won five of 10 events in which she played and was named SBC Futures Tour Player of the Year); played in five LPGA Tour events, including the U.S. Women’s Open, where she tied for eighth, and the Safeway LPGA Golf Championship, where she tied for second.

Amateur Highlights

In 1994 and 1996, Park was named American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Player of the Year and, from 1992-97, she was named an AJGA All-American. While on the ASU Women’s Golf Team from 1997-99, she contributed to their 1998 NCAA national championship title. As a freshman in 1998, she was named the Rolex Eleanor Dudley College Player of the Year, was a member of the NCAA All-American Team, won the Trans-Amateur Championship, the Western Amateur Championship and the U.S. Amateur Championship. She was the first player since Patty Berg in 1938 to sweep all major amateur championships. She also was named Golfweek’s Player of the Year (1998) and was the 1998-99 Honda Award winner as college player of the year. She won a total of 55 national junior, college and amateur titles.

Personal

Started playing golf at the age of 8…Has two siblings: Young Sik and Lisa…Credits her father as the individual most influencing her career…Currently enrolled in Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, Korea…Enjoys shopping and listening to music.