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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.
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. She will probably be playing on the Futures Tour again
next season.
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