Age: 22 (born Dec. 20, 1996).
All about about KPMG Women's PGA Championship winner Hannah Green
Get to know the latest surprise major championship winner at Hazeltine National.
June 24, 2019 at 4:52AM
Hometown: Perth, Australia. Still resides there.
Career path: Turned pro in 2016; won three times on the Symetra Tour; was an LPGA rookie in 2018. Before Sunday, best LPGA Tour finish was third.
Career LPGA earnings: $694,003 for the season and $938,477 for her career. Of that, $577,500 came on Sunday.
2019 season: 12 events played, nine cuts made, one victory (Sunday's), one additional top-10 finish. Became the 37th player to make a major her first LPGA Tour victory.
Big breakthrough: Hannah Green became the ninth player to make the Women's PGA Championship her first LPGA Tour victory. The other eight? Gloria Ehret, 1966; Sandra Post, 1968; Sherri Turner, 1988; Se Ri Pak 1998; Yani Tseng, 2008; Anna Nordqvist, 2009; Shanshan Feng, 2012; and Danielle Kang, 2017.
Green round by round
Round 1: 4-under 68 (four birdies, no bogeys). Led Mel Reid and Hyo Joo Kim by one stroke.
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Round 2: 3-under 69 (four birdies, one bogey) for 7-under 137. Led Ariya Jutanugarn by three strokes.
Round 3: 2-under 70 (four birdies, two bogeys) for 9-under 207. Led Jutanugarn by one stroke.
Round 4: Even-par 72 (three birdies, three bogeys) for 9-under 279. Defeated Sung Hyun Park by one stroke.
Front-runners
Winners of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship who had the outright lead after all four rounds:
Se Ri Pak, 1998: Won by three strokes with an 11-under 273 at DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Del.
Yani Tseng, 2011: Won by 10 strokes with a 19-under 269 at Locust Hill Country Club in Pittsford, N.Y.
Hannah Green, 2019: Won by one stroke with a 9-under 279 at Hazeltine National Golf Club.
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