Na Yeon Choi

Started playing golf at age 11 and credits her father as the individual most influencing her career. Was a member of the Korean National Team and won the 2004 ADT CAPS Invitational on the KLPGA Tour as an amateur and turned professional following the victory.
In 2005, she won the Lake Side Ladies Open on the KLPGA Tour.
In 2006, she won the KB Star Tour in Hampyung on the KLPGA Tour.
In 2007, as a member of the KLPGA, she tied for eighth in the Hana Bank-Kolon Championship. Won her fourth KLPGA event at the Shinsegye Cup KLPGA Championship. Tied for 20th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn non-exempt status for the 2008 LPGA season.
In 2008, she was runner-up to Yani Tseng by 267 points in the race for Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year honors on the strength of nine top-10 finishes. She recorded season-best runner-up finishes in the Sybase Classic and the Evian Masters, where she lost to Helen Alfredsson in a three-hole, sudden-death playoff.
In 2009, became a Rolex First-Time Winner when she won the Samsung World Championship. Won the Hana Bank-Kolon Championship for her second-career victory, and finished in the top-10 nine other times.
2010 Notes: Led the 2010 LPGA Tour Money List ($1,871,165.50) and won the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average (69.8). She won the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic and the LPGA Hana Bank Championship, the third and fourth victories of her LPGA career. Na Yeon tied for second in the LPGA State Farm Classic, U.S. Women's Open, Evian Masters and Safeway Classic. She finished T-3rd in the Ricoh Women's British Open and tied for fourth in the Bell Micro LPGA Classic. She was T-5th in the Mizuno Classic and the LPGA Tour Championship and tied for seventh in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational presented by Banamex and Corona Light.
2011 Notes: Choi recorded her fifth career LPGA victory at the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia. Finished second in the race for the Vare Trophy with a scoring average of 70.53. Her other top-10 finishes included 2nd in the Safeway Classic presented by Coca-Cola, where she lost in a playoff to Suzann Pettersen, and second in the LPGA HanaBank Championship. She was third in the Sybase Match Play Championship and the Mizuno Classic and T-3rd in the Avnet LPGA Classic. She was T-4th in the CME Group Titleholders, T-5th in the Kia Classic and finished sixth in the HSBC Women's Champions and the CN Canadian Women's Open. She also won the Hanwha Finance Classic on the KLPGA.
2012 Notes: Played in 22 events, made 21 cuts and earned $1,981,834, finishing 2nd on the LPGA Tour money list. She had 10 top-10 finishes and six top-5 finishes. She captured her first major title when she won the U.S. Women's Open at Blackwolf Run and earned her seventh career win at the season-ending CME Group Titleholders. Her two victories came in the two biggest paydays of the LPGA season.
2013 Notes: Played in 24 events and made all 24 cuts. She earned $929,964 and was ninth on the LPGA Tour money list. She posted eight top-10 finishes, three top-5 finishes and season-best runner-up finishes in the HSBC Women's Champions and the RICOH Women's British Open. It was her second consecutive season without a missed cut.
2014 Notes: She was 13th on the LPGA Tour money list and 18th in CME points. It was her first time out of the top 10 on the money list since her rookie year of 2008, when she was 11th. She made 24 cuts in 26 starts, notching six top-10 finishes. She had her cuts-made streak snapped at 40 at the Founders Cup. She was 2nd in the Canadian Pacific Women's Open, two strokes back of So Yeon Ryu.
2015 Notes: Made 22 starts, making 20 cuts and finishing 17th on the LPGA money list and 18th in CME points. She started the year off with a win in the COATES Golf Championship, and won again six months later, capturing the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship title. With that victory, Choi crossed the $10 million mark in career earnings. Midway through the season in a rain delay in Arkansas, she started getting a pain in her back and it got worse every time she played. She tried to rehab it with exercising to strengthen her back.
2016 Notes: Played in 25 LPGA events, making 14 cuts. She had 3 top-10 finishes, her being a T-3rd in the Swinging Skirts. Na Yeon was T-4th in the HSBC Women's Champions. She was 55th on the money list with $348,444 in earnings, and 62nd in CME Points. She finished second in the Buick Championship in Shanghai on the Ladies European Tour, losing a playoff to Shanshan Feng.
2017 Notes: Played in 20 LPGA events making 9 cuts with one top-ten finish. Has had a slow start to her season and didn't get her first top-25 finish until her 17th start with a T-24th a the McKayson New Zealand Women's Open. Best finish was T-7th at the Blue Bay LPGA. Won $46,311 and ranked 135th.
She finished outside the top 60 in earnings for the first time in her career, fighting her back injury.
2018 Notes: She played just five times on Tour, making one cut (T-62nd Women's Australian Open), as she continued to be hampered by a back injury. After the Hugel-JTBC L.A. Open she decided the pain was too much and left the tour. Choi debated whether to remain in the United States or return to Korea. Instead, she decided to travel the world in order to completely escape from the game. She spent two weeks getting travelling in Europe, by bus and train to six different countries. The experience allowed her to break from her routine on Tour. During her hiatus, Choi underwent rehab on her back. She did Pilates, stretched and strengthened her core. At the end of the year noticed that she was missing the game and started playing again. In her return, the pain had gone away and she decided to rejoin the Tour in May of 2019.
2019 Notes: Best finish T-27th at the Bank of Hope Founders Cup with no lingering effects from the back injury at this point.