Bae Sang-moon

Bae Sang-moon
Bae Sang-moon
Personal information
Born	21 June 1986; Daegu, South Korea
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1]
Weight	180 lb (82 kg; 13 st)[1]
Nationality	South Korea
Residence	Kyunggi-do, South Korea
Career
College	Daegu University
Turned professional	2004
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour; (past champion status); Korn Ferry Tour
Former tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour; Asian Tour
Professional wins	16
Highest ranking	26 (20 November 2011)[2]
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	2
Japan Golf Tour	3
Asian Tour	3
Korn Ferry Tour	1
Other	7
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	T33: 2015
PGA Championship	T54: 2012
U.S. Open	T42: 2011
The Open Championship	T64: 2012
Achievements and awards
Japan Golf Tour; leading money winner	2011
Korean Tour; Order of Merit winner	2009

Bae Sang-moon (Korean: 배상문; born 21 June 1986), or Sang-moon Bae, is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.

Professional career

Bae turned professional in 2004. He won the 2006 Emerson Pacific Group Open on the Korean Tour, and in 2007 he won the SK Telecom Open, an Asian Tour and Korean Tour co-sanctioned event held in his home country. In 2008, he won his home country's open, the Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open. In 2009, he won the GS Caltex Maekyung Open.

In 2011, Bae finished as the leading money winner on the Japan Golf Tour for the season after winning three tournaments. Bae was the second consecutive Korean to take this accolade after Kim Kyung-tae's success in 2010. His three victories all came within two months of each other at the Vana H Cup KBC Augusta, the Coca-Cola Tokai Classic and the Japan Open. At the end of the year, he competed at the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament, where he finished T11 to secure his playing rights for the 2012 PGA Tour season. He also reached his career high world ranking of 26th in 2011.

Bae started the season very strongly, making all of his first eight cuts on the PGA Tour. He recorded his first top-10 finish of the year when he reached the quarter-finals at the 2012 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, knocking out Ian Poulter and Charl Schwartzel before losing to Rory McIlroy. In March 2012, Bae lost in a four-man playoff at the Transitions Championship on the PGA Tour. After finishing at −13 for the tournament, he lost the playoff when Luke Donald holed a birdie putt on the first extra hole to defeat Bae, Jim Furyk and Robert Garrigus. He finished his debut season making 17 out of 25 cuts and ended up 71st in the FedEx Cup standings, one position outside of qualifying for the third playoff event.

In May 2013, Bae won his first PGA Tour event at the HP Byron Nelson Championship, beating Keegan Bradley by two strokes.[3] Bae entered the final round a single stroke behind Bradley, but birdied four out of his first seven holes to move four ahead. However Bae double-bogeyed the ninth after finding water and bogeyed the 10th and 15th to drop back to a share of the lead. Bae then proceeded to birdie the 16th and when Bradley bogeyed the 17th, Bae had a comfortable two shot lead to come down the 18th and secure his maiden victory.[4][5] He became just the fourth South Korean-born winner on the PGA Tour, after K. J. Choi, Yang Yong-eun, and Kevin Na.

Bae was embroiled in political controversy late 2014 after his work visa expired and he had yet to serve twenty-one months in the South Korean military as required of men age 18–35. By comparison, K. J. Choi and Yang Yong-eun completed their military requirements before turning professional. Bae countered that he had residency in the U.S. and was exempt. In July 2015, a South Korean court ruled Bae spent too much time in South Korea to be exempt and must fulfill his military requirement.[6] In response, the PGA Tour created a "Mandatory Obligation" category that would allow Bae to retain his exemption after completing his service, similar to the major medical exemption.

Bae earned an invitation to the 2015 Presidents Cup as a captain's pick by Nick Price. It was his last event before military service, which began in November 2015. His military service ended in August 2017.

Bae made his return to professional golf at the 2017 Shinhan Donghae Open, an event he won twice as a member of the Korean Tour. His PGA Tour return came at the Safeway Open. Bae finished 202nd in the FedEx Cup, but earned entry to the Web.com Tour Finals via his military exemption. He won the Albertsons Boise Open and regained his PGA Tour card for the 2018–19 season.

Professional wins (15)

PGA Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	19 May 2013	HP Byron Nelson Championship	66-66-66-69=267	−13	2 strokes	Keegan Bradley
2	12 Oct 2014	Frys.com Open	66-69-65-73=273	−15	2 strokes	Steven Bowditch

PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2012	Transitions Championship	Luke Donald, Jim Furyk, Robert Garrigus	Donald won with birdie on first extra hole

Japan Golf Tour wins (3)

Legend
Japan Opens (1)
Japan majors (1)
Other Japan Golf Tour (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	28 Aug 2011	Vana H Cup KBC Augusta	65-64-70-67=266	−22	2 strokes	Ryo Ishikawa, Tomohiro Kondo
2	2 Oct 2011	Coca-Cola Tokai Classic	69-67-72-73=281	−7	1 stroke	Tadahiro Takayama
3	16 Oct 2011	Japan Open Golf Championship	69-74-68-71=282	−2	Playoff	Kenichi Kuboya

The Japan Open Golf Championship is also a Japan major championship.

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2011	Japan Open Golf Championship	Kenichi Kuboya	Won with par on first extra hole
2	2011	Mynavi ABC Championship	Koichiro Kawano	Lost to birdie on sixth extra hole

Asian Tour wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	27 May 2007	SK Telecom Open¹	64-69-71-67=271	−17	6 strokes	Aaron Baddeley, Kim Hyung-tae
2	5 Oct 2008	Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open¹	67-70-67-69=273	−11	1 stroke	Ian Poulter
3	17 May 2009	GS Caltex Maekyung Open¹	71-70-70-70=281	−7	Playoff	Ted Oh

¹Co-sanctioned by the Korean Tour

Asian Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2009	GS Caltex Maekyung Open	Ted Oh	Won with par on second extra hole

Web.com Tour wins (1)

Legend
Web.com Tour Finals events (1)
Other Web.com Tour (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	16 Sep 2018	Albertsons Boise Open	65-67-67-66=265	−19	1 stroke	Anders Albertson, Adam Schenk, Roger Sloan

OneAsia Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	13 Sep 2009	Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open¹	71-71-65-67=271	−10	1 stroke	Kim Dae-sub
2	23 May 2010	SK Telecom Open¹	68-65-66-67=266	−22	3 strokes	Kim Dae-hyun

¹Co-sanctioned by the Korean Tour

Korean Tour wins (9)

2006 SBS Emerson Pacific Group Open
2007 SK Telecom Open¹
2008 KEB Invitational (1st tournament), Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open¹
2009 GS Caltex Maekyung Open¹, Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open²
2010 SK Telecom Open²
2013 Shinhan Donghae Open
2014 Shinhan Donghae Open

¹ Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour
² Co-sanctioned by the OneAsia Tour

Other wins (1)

2008 Fortis International Challenge (Malaysia; with Kim Hyung-tae)

Results in major championships

Tournament	2009	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Masters Tournament			T37		CUT	T33
U.S. Open	CUT	T42	CUT	CUT
The Open Championship		CUT	T64
PGA Championship			T54	CUT		64

Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied for place

Summary

Tournament	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	3	2
U.S. Open	4	1
The Open Championship	2	1
PGA Championship	3	2
Totals	12	6

Most consecutive cuts made – 2 (twice, current)
Longest streak of top-10s – 0

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament	2012	2013	2014	2015
The Players Championship	CUT	T33	68	T30

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

Results not in chronological order before 2015.

Tournament	2012	2013	2015
Championship	71		T46
Match Play	QF
Invitational	66	T53	T63
Champions

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