Cho Jeong-min
South Korean professional golfer
Cho Jeong-min (born 26 November 1994) is a South Korean professional golfer. As an amateur, she represented New Zealand as Cecilia Cho, and in 2011 became women's world number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. She has won five events on the LPGA of Korea Tour and in 2019 spent 10 weeks in the top 50 of the Women's World Golf Rankings.
Early life and amateur career
Cho was born in Daegu, South Korea, and moved to New Zealand with her parents and her older brother Taeyoung Cho when she was 8 years old. Within a few years, she became one of the top junior golfers in New Zealand. She won the 2009 New Zealand Women's Amateur, beating the even younger Korean New Zealander Lydia Ko in the final.
In 2010, Cho lost in the final of the Australian Women's Amateur to Stacey Keating, but won the Australian Women's Amateur Stroke Play Championship, becoming the youngest to ever accomplish that feat.
On 9 March 2011 Cho briefly ascended to women's world number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. Her rivalry with Lydia Ko intensified, and Ko claimed the 2011 Australian Stroke Play title by beating Cho on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff. Ko then also beat Cho into second at the New Zealand Stroke Play Championship.
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