Qualifier: Shot 71-69--140 at Rainier Golf & Country Club, in Seattle, Wash., on April 28
The University of Southern California senior and 2024 USA Curtis Cupper qualified for her third U.S. Women's Open by posting 4-under-par 140 at Rainier Golf & Country Club, in Seattle, Wash. Park, who helped the USA win the Women's World Amateur Team Championship last fall in Malaysia and is a member of the U.S. National Development Program's Elite Amateur Program, has been an All-American every season for the Trojans, including a first-team selection for the 2023-24 campaign. In the 2024 U.S. Women's Open at Lancaster (Pa.) Country Club, she shared low-amateur honors with teenager Asterisk Talley and reigning U.S. Women's Amateur champion Megan Schofill. Park qualified for that U.S. Women's Open a day before her 20th birthday. Park posted five collegiate wins in her four-year USC career, including the 2024 Pacific-12 Conference title. As a freshman in 2022-23, Park was the runner-up to Rose Zhang in the NCAA Division I Championship, which included an 8-under round of 64. In the 2024 Curtis Cup at Sunningdale, in England, Park posted a 1-2-1 record, earning a point in the Saturday foursomes session with Zoe Campos. She also competed for the U.S. in the 2024 and 2025 Palmer Cups. Park, the only four-time, first-team all-conference selection in USC history (2 in Pac-12 and 2 in Big 10), comes from a highly athletic family. Her mom, Hyang-Soo Seo, was the first female from the Republic of Korea to win an Olympic gold medal, achieving the feat in archery during the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. Her father, Kyung-Ho Park, was a gold medalist in the 1986 Asian Games in judo. Her older brother, Sean, played professional baseball in Korea, and her older sister, Victoria, played professionally on the Symetra Tour (now Epson Tour). Victoria was a quarterfinalist in the 2010 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links, losing to eventual winner Emily Tubert. Before coming to USC, the Irvine, Calif., resident won the 2019 Se Ri Pak Junior on the American Junior Golf Association circuit and was a two-time AJGA All-American.
YEAR
2024
SITE
Lancaster Country Club
SCORES
70-72-72-78--292
TO PAR
+12
FINISH
T-44
YEAR
2022
SITE
Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club
SCORES
74-73
TO PAR
+5
FINISH
MC