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Aree Song is a professional golfer who plays on
the U.S. based LPGA Tour. Her father is South
Korea|South Korean and her mother is Thai (ethnic
group)|Thai. She was born on 1 May 1986 in
Bangkok, Thailand. She is a South Korean citizen,
and has represented Thailand in junior team
competition, but she has spent much of her life in
the United States. 

Song was a child prodigy, setting a number of
youngest age records. In 1999 she won the U.S.
Girls Junior Championship at thirteen years old,
becoming the youngest player to win any United
States Golf Association championship. In 2000 she
tied for 10th place in the Kraft Nabisco
Championship, which is one of the four Women's
majors|major championships on the LPGA Tour, while
still only thirteen. The same year, but a few
months after her fourteenth birthday, she became
the youngest ever semi-finalist at the U.S.
Women's Amateur Championship. In 2001 she was the
recipient of the Nancy Lopez Award, which is
presented to the best female amateur golfer of the
year. The next year she placed first individually
at the World Amateur Team Championships and helped
Thailand to a second place finish. She won a
number of adult amateur events in 2002 and 2003
and in the latter year she placed fifth at the
U.S. Women's Open (golf)|U.S. Women's Open.

Song turned professional in August 2003 at the age
of 17 and 3 months. She was granted an exemption
from the LPGA's minimum age rule to allow her to
enter the 2003 LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament,
and she came fifth in it to earn exemption for the
LPGA Tour in 2004. In her rookie season she
finished second at the Kraft Nabisco Championship
and ended the year at twenty-eighth place on the
money list. She struggled to find form in the
first half of the 2005 season. 

Song's twin sister Naree Song is also a member of
the LPGA Tour, but has had much less success as of
2005.

==External links==
*http://www.lpga.com/player_results.aspx?id=258
Profile on the LPGA Tour's official site
*http://www.areesong.com/ Aree Song's site - in
English and Korean