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Park will turn pro after Women's Open Associated Press June 3 3:24pm ET | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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WEST POINT, Miss. -- Get ready for another amateur to join the professional ranks.
Grace Park, the U.S. Amateur and NCAA champion, said Wednesday that she plans to turn pro after the U.S. Women's Open. She could not turn pro before the Open because her exemption is based on her winning the Amateur. "I feel I'm ready now," said Park, a 20-year-old South Korean who moved to the United States eight years ago. Unlike Tiger Woods on the PGA Tour and Jenny Chuasiriporn, the '98 Open runner-up who turned pro last week, Park does not plan to take any sponsor's exemptions into LPGA Tour events with hopes of getting her card. Instead, she plans to play the remaining eight events on the Futures Tour. She can earn her card by finishing in the top three on the Futures money list. If she finishes from fourth to 10th on the money list, she would be exempt to the finals of Q-school.
A two-time All-American at Arizona State, Park has been the top-ranked women's amateur and female college player the past two years.
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