Vicky Hurst
Hurst at the2009 LPGA Championship
Personal information
Born	(1990-06-19)June 19, 1990 (age 34) Andrews AFB,Maryland, U.S.
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Sporting nationality	United States
Residence	Melbourne, Florida, U.S.
Career
Turned professional	2008
Current tour(s)	LPGA Tour (joined 2009) Symetra Tour (joined 2008)
Professional wins	8
Number of wins by tour
Epson Tour	8
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship	T11: 2012
Women's PGA C'ship	T44: 2013
U.S. Women's Open	T18: 2012
Women's British Open	T17: 2012
Evian Championship	T44: 2013
Achievements and awards
AJGA Player of the Year 2007 Futures Tour Rookie of the Year 2008 Futures Tour Player of the Year 2008

Vicky Hurst (born June 19, 1990) is an Americanprofessional golfer currently playing on theLPGA Tour.

She turned professional as a 17-year-old in 2008, while still in high school. Playing on theFutures Tour that year, she won five times and set a Tour record for single season earnings with $93,107.

Hurst was born to a golfing family. While pregnant with Vicky, her mother Koko, a nativeKorean, was completing a round of golf atAndrews AFB nearWashington, D.C. when her water broke on the 16th hole.^[1][2] Although winning the round, Koko left to give birth to Vicky at the base's medical center.^[2] Her father, Joe, who met Koko while he was stationed in Korea in the 1980s, was a retiredAir Forcecolonel.^[3] He died suddenly of a massive stroke in April 2006 while Vicky, age 15, was practicing for the LPGAGinn Open to which she had received a sponsor exemption. Hurst withdrew from the tournament and said she would dedicate the rest of her career to her father's memory.^[4]Hurst was raised inMelbourne,Florida, where she attendedHoly Trinity Episcopal Academy and graduated in June 2008, part-way through her Futures Tour rookie year.^[3] She has an older sister, Kelly, also an accomplished golfer, was a member of theUniversity of Florida golf team, though she never played.^[5]

Hurst had a standout amateur career. In 2005, she won the Florida Women's State Golf Association Junior Girls' Championship, was named the FWSGA Junior Player of the Year and finished second at the Florida high school girls golf championship. In 2006, she was runner-up at theU.S. Girls' Junior and tied for second at the FWSGA Junior Girls' Championship. Also in 2006, she played in theU.S. Women's Open, less than two weeks after turning 16.^[6]She was named Florida Junior Player of the Year in 2006-07 and qualified again for the U.S. Women's Open in2007. In 2007, she won three American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) events, and earned spots on the 2007 U.S. PING Junior Solheim Cup Team and Canon Cup, representing the East Team. She ended 2007 as the top-ranked amateur in the Polo Golf Rankings and was named the 2007 AJGA Player of the Year.

In the fall of 2007 at the start of her senior year in high school, Hurst faced a choice between pursuing a college golf career, for which she was heavily recruited by coaches, and turning professional. She participated in, and won, theFutures Tourqualifying school in November. In December she announced that she would skip college and join the Futures Tour in 2008, while completing high school at the same time.^[7] She also received sponsor exemptions to three LPGA Tour events in 2008, missing the cut in two of the events and finishing tied for 21st in the third.

In 2008, she competed full-time on the Futures Tour, winning five times and setting a Tour record for single season earnings with $93,107. She was named Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year and automatically qualified for full playing status on the LPGA Tour for the 2009 season. Her first tournament as an LPGA member was the 2009 season-openingSBS Open at Turtle Bay at which she finished tied for 15th and led the field in driving distance. Hurst finished her rookie year leading the LPGA Tour in driving distance with an average distance of 272.5 yards.^[8]

Hurst's endorsement contracts includeCallaway Golf andUnder Armour.^[9][10]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's[11] share ($)
1	Apr 27,2008	Jalapeno Golf Classic	67-67-64=198	−18	3 strokes	Ashley Prange	11,900
2	Jun 17, 2008	Michelob Ultra Futures Players Championship	69-70-68-65=272	−8	4 strokes	Sarah Jane Kenyon	16,100
3	Jun 29, 2008	Horseshoe Casino Classic at Lost Marsh Golf Course	70-76-67=213	−3	1 stroke	Jin Young Pak	12,600
4	Jul 13, 2008	CIGNA Golf Classic	68-73-68=209	−7	8 strokes	Natalie Sheary	11,200
5	Oct 19, 2008	Duramed Invitational	71-69-71=211	−8	1 stroke	Vikki Laing	21,0001
6	Aug 16,2015	W. B. Mason Championship	67-65-68=200	−13	3 strokes	Brittany Benvenuto,Alejandra Llaneza	16,500
7	Sep 20, 2015	Garden City Charity Classic	70-66-72=208	−8	2 strokes	Olivia Jordan-Higgins	15,000
8	May 13,2018	Self Regional Healthcare Foundation Women's Health Classic	71-70-71-67=279	−9	1 stroke	Dottie Ardina	30,000

¹ unofficial victory and earnings
Futures Tour majors are shown inbold.

Results not in chronological order before 2015.

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013.

CUT = missed the half-way cut
T = tied

• Most consecutive cuts made – 6 (2009 British Open – 2011 Kraft Nabisco)
• Longest streak of top-10s – 0

• official through the 2023 season^[12]

* Includes matchplay and other events without a cut.

^ Does not include victory and $21,000 won at Duramed Invitational, an unofficial event after the season on October 19.

Amateur

• Junior Ryder Cup (representing the United States): 2006
• Junior Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2007

Professional

• Solheim Cup (representing the United States):2011

• Vicky Hurst at theLPGA Tour official site
• Vicky Hurst at theEpson Tour official site
• Vicky Hurst at theLPGA Futures Tour official site (archived)
• Vicky Hurst at theWomen's World Golf Rankings official site
• Vicky Hurst at Seoul Sisters website
• Vicky Hurst onTwitter

• American female golfers
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• Solheim Cup competitors for the United States
• Golfers from Maryland
• Golfers from Florida
• American sportspeople of Korean descent
• Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy alumni
• Sportspeople from Prince George's County, Maryland
• Sportspeople from Melbourne, Florida
• 1990 births
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• 21st-century American sportswomen

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