Je-Yoon Yang

Je Yoon Yang joined the KLPGA tour in 2011. She finished 44th on the money list with 3 top tens. Her best finish was a 3rd.
In 2012, Yang collected a fifth place finish at the third event of the year. She followed that the next week with a fourth. But it was not until the second half of the year that her game really took off. She scored her first career win at the Nefs Masterpiece, and for the next several months, she recorded multiple top-10s. As a result, she soon climbed to the top of the Player of the Year race.
Ha Neul Kim, the previous Player of the Year, was also playing well, and when she won the Rush & Cash Classic in October, she took the lead from Yang in the Player of the Year standings. For the rest of the season, the two competed for the top spot. Yang had a third at the year's third Major, the Hite Cup, and a second at the final Major. When she finished fourth at the Kim Young Joo Women's Open, she moved to within just a few points of Ha Neul. She won the final tournament of the season to clinch the 2012 KLPGA Player of the Year, and finished fourth on the money list with over 406 million won earned. She earned 9 top-tens in 2012, 7 of which were top-fives.