📍Daejeon, South Korea
1977 – 1996“Se Ri Pak was born in Daejeon, South Korea, in September 1977. Her father, Pak Joon-chul, was a former soldier and businessman who loved golf, and he was fiercely determined that his daughter would be a champion. As a girl she was a track athlete, running the 100 metres and throwing the shot put, and she was strong, fast and competitive. When she was about fourteen, her father suggested she try golf at a local driving range, and she took to it immediately. Her father's training methods became legendary: he woke her at 5.30 in the morning to run up and down the fifteen flights of stairs in their apartment block, and drove her to practise for hours at the Yuseong Country Club in Daejeon. Stories spread that he made her practise in a cemetery at night to steel her nerves, although Pak herself later denied that. She once stayed at the range until after midnight when her father forgot to collect her. Golf was still a rich man's game in Korea, and few girls played. She won dozens of amateur titles in Korea and turned professional in 1996. In 1998, as an LPGA rookie, she won two majors, including the US Women's Open, where she took off her shoes and socks to play a shot from the edge of a water hazard, revealing her untanned feet, an image that inspired a generation of Korean girls to take up golf. She won five majors and was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame, and Daejeon is proud of the pioneer who started a golf revolution.”
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