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Se Ri Pak (born September 28, 1977 in Daejeon,
South Korea) is a professional golfer. This
article gives her Romanized name in Western order
(given names first); her family name is Pak
(박).

==Career outline==
Pak turned professional in 1996, and joined the
LPGA Tour full-time for the year 1998, crowning
her rookie season with victories in two majors:
the McDonald's LPGA Championship and U.S. Women's
Open Championship (golf)|U.S. Women's Open.
Unsurprisingly, she won the Rolex Rookie of the
Year award for that season.

Since then she has gone on to win over 20 events
on the tour, including two more majors. Her
success means she has effectively qualified for
the World Golf Hall of Fame, but cannot be
inducted until she's been a tour member for 10
years (which should occur in 2007). Assuming she
enters the Hall in 2007, she will surpass Karrie
Webb as the youngest living entrant ever (the 19th
century great Tom Morris, Jr., elected in 1975,
died at age 24).

Pak's strong playing record and her willingness to
learn and use English has made her popular in the
sport, although her achievements have been
overshadowed by the presence of Annika Sörenstam.

Like Sörenstam, Pak has also competed in a
professional men's golf event, at the 2003 SBS
Super Tournament on the Korean Tour. Unlike
Sörenstam, however, she did make the cut and
eventually finished 10th.

As of June 2005 Pak is in something of a slump. At
the 2005 LPGA Championship she missed the cut for
the first time in 29 majors. In an interview
quoted on the PGA Tour's website she commented
that she was searching for a balance between her
golf and her personal life: "I've been a little
bit unhappy about everything, my game. I'm not
really enjoying it at all, and I'm not doing
anything with my life. I know what I needed, a
much better balance. I'm always putting a lot of
pressure on myself." 

==LPGA Tour wins==
1998 LPGA Championship|McDonald's LPGA
Championship, US Women's Open Championship
(golf)|U.S. Women's Open, Jamie Farr Kroger
Classic, Giant Eagle LPGA Classic

1999 ShopRite LPGA Classic, Jamie Farr Kroger
Classic, Samsung World Championship of Women's
Golf, PageNet Championship

2001 YourLife Vitamins LPGA Classic, Longs Drugs
Challenge, Jamie Farr Kroger Classic, Women's
British Open|Weetabix Women's British Open, AFLAC
Champions

2002 The Office Depot Championship, LPGA
Championship|McDonald's LPGA Championship, First
Union Betsy King Classic, Mobile LPGA Tournament
of Champions, Sports Today CJ Nine Bridges
Classic.

2003 Safeway PING, Chick-fil-A Charity
Championship, Jamie Farr Kroger Classic

2004 Michelob ULTRA Open

Women's majors|Major championships are shown in
bold.

==Results in LPGA majors==
{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1"
style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px;
border-collapse: collapse;"
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
! Tournament !! 1997 !! 1998 !! 1999 !! 2000 !!
2001 !! 2002 !! 2003 !! 2004 !! 2005
|-
|Kraft Nabisco Championship
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|T13
|align="center"|T15
|align="center"|T11
|align="center"|T9
|align="center"|T15
|align="center"|T16
|align="center"|T27

|-
|LPGA Championship
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|T6
|align="center"|T3
|align="center"|T39
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|T46
|align="center"|T17
|align="center"|CUT

|-
|U.S. Women's Open (golf)|U.S. Women's Open
|align="center"|T21
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|T14
|align="center"|T15
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|5
|align="center"|50
|align="center"|T32
|align="center"|T45

|-
|du Maurier Classic ^
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|T41
|align="center"|T13
|align="center"|T7
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—

|-
|Women's British Open
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|T11
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|T21
|align="center"|WD
|}

^ du Maurier Classic discontinued after 2000

DNP = did not play

CUT = missed the half way cut

WD = withdrew

"T" indicates a tie for a place.

==See also==
*Golfers with most LPGA Tour wins
*List of Koreans
*Golfers with most LPGA major championship wins

==External links==
* http://www.lpga.com/player_results.aspx?id=157
LPGA bio page
* http://www.golfstarsonline.com/P/Se_Ri_Pak/ Se
Ri Pak at Golf Stars Online Directory of
interviews, websites and feature articles with or
about her.