Jenny Bae (born August 25, 2001) is an American professional golfer and LPGA Tour player.
Amateur career Bae was born in Suwanee, Georgia. She won the 2018 Georgia Junior Championship in record-setting fashion, shooting a 9-under 207 to win by 10 strokes. She was named the 2018 Georgia Player of the Year as a junior, after earning medalist honors at the state championships representing Collins Hill High School.
Bae played her college golf at the University of Georgia from January 2019 to 2023. In her final season she was named first-team All-American and was ranked ranked 5th by GolfStat and Golfweek. She received the Juli Inkster Award as the top female collegiate golfer, and was a finalist for the Annika Award, the WGCA Ping National Player of the Year, and the Honda Sports Award.
In 2023, she lost a playoff to Rose Zhang at the Augusta National Women's Amateur.
Professional career Bae turned professional after graduating in 2023 and joined the Epson Tour, where she won two events back-to-back in her second and third starts. She made her LPGA debut at the 2023 Portland Classic.
In 2024, she won her third title at the Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout, and finished 7th on the Race for the Card at the end of the season, to gain a fully exempt card on the LPGA Tour for the 2025 season.
Amateur wins 2018 Georgia Junior Championship 2020 Georgia Women's Match Play Championship 2021 NCAA Columbus Regional, Georgia Women's Amateur Championship 2022 Illini Women's Invitational 2023 NCAA Athens Regional
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Professional wins (3) Epson Tour wins (3) No.DateTournamentWinning scoreTo parMargin ofvictoryRunner(s)-upWinner'sshare ($)1Jul 16, 2023Hartford HealthCare Women's Championship69-66-70=205−11Playoff Ssu-Chia Cheng Kang Min-ji 30,000 2Jul 23, 2023Twin Bridges Championship65-69-73=207−6Playoff Jessica Porvasnik30,000 3Sep 22, 2024Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout66-70-73=209−71 stroke Therese Warner Lauren Stephenson Hailee Cooper50,625
Results in LPGA majors Tournament 2025 2026Chevron ChampionshipCUTT27U.S. Women's OpenCUTWomen's PGA ChampionshipT47CUTThe Evian ChampionshipT59T41Women's British Open CUTCUT
CUT = missed the half-way cut T = tied
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