Updated: May, 2016

MISUN CHO

The Facts
Birthday: October 4, 1987
Rookie year on LPGA: 2010
Birthplace: Chongju, South Korea
Australian Home City: Melbourne
Best LPGA Finish: T-24th (2010 Kia Classic)
Best LPGA Major Finish: CUT
Rookie of the Year Finish: 13th
Best Score: 68 (2010 Kia Classic)
Best Scoring Average: 74.26 (2010)
Best Season Money Total: $22,504 (2010)
Best Season Money List Position: 126th (2010)
Most Top Tens/Season: 0
Height: 5' 3"
2016 LPGA Status: On Symetra Tour; retired?
Nicknames: Sunny
How's her English?: Good
Road to the LPGA: Finished 3rd on 2009 Futures Tour Money List to earn LPGA status for 2010.

Capsule Bio

Mi Sun Cho moved from Korea to Melbourne, Australia in late 1999. Like many Korean golfers, she moved to a Western country to have better access to golf courses and training.

In the past couple of years, she has quickly risen to be one of the top junior players in the country, and is nationally ranked in the seniors as well. At the 2003 Australian Amateur championships, she really made a name for herself. Not only did her team of herself and fellow young Korean Claire Choi win the foursome title, but Cho herself made it all the way to the finals in singles. She lost that match, but at times had as much as a 3 up advantage.

Mi Sun also won the Australian Junior Championship in 2004, and backed that up by successfully defending in 2005, leading the three round event from start to finish. She won by four shots despite a punishing 80 in the third round. The second and third place finishers were Sarah Oh and Helen Oh (no relation), also Korean. Mi Sun became only the third player to win more than one Junior Girl's Championship in Australia; one of the others was current LPGA golfer Gloria Park.

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Eventually, Cho went to college in America at Pepperdine, where she was a freshman in 2006-2007. She has already had success there, leading her team to a victory at the prestigious Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in February, 2007. Pepperdine beat 14 nationally ranked teams at this event, and Cho won the individual honors as top player as well.

Cho turned pro after her freshman year and joined the Canadian Women's tour. She played well enough there to qualify for the Canadian Women's Open, where she finished a solid 34th.

In 2009, Sunny Cho played on the Futures Tour, finishing 3rd on the money list with two wins to earn membership on the LPGA for 2010. But Cho only made $22,000 in her rookie season, and lost all her playing privileges on the LPGA for 2011.

Cho was on the Futures Tour in 2011. She played 10 events, with her best finish a tie for third. She wound up 39th on the money list. She played better there in 2012, carding two top tens including a win at the Challenge at Musket Ridge. She played on the Symetra Tour for several more years, but does not seem to be playing anymore as of 2016 and may be retired.
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