By Brenda June Temple
CPKC Women’s Open
Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club | Vancouver, BC | August 24-27
In The Winner’s Circle with Megan Khang
Aug. 27, 2023
Megan Khang LPGA Tour winner of CPKC Women’s Open 8 27 2023.mp3
Hometown/Resides: Brockton, Mass./Rockland, Mass.
Birthdate: October 23, 1997; currently 25 years, 10 months and 4 days
Qualified for LPGA Tour: Finished T6 at the 2015 LPGA Qualifying Tournament to first earn Membership for 2016
Turned Professional/Rookie Year: 2015/2016
Caddie: Jack Fulghum
VICTORIES
LPGA: First career victory
RACE TO THE CME GLOBE
With her win, Khang earns 500 points and is projected to jump into the top 20 in the Race to the CME Globe
MONEY
With her win, Khang earns $375,000; she has earned $1,228,340 this season and $5,407,252 in her career.
PREVIOUS CPKC WOMEN’S OPEN RESULTS
2022 – T13; 2019 – T13; 2018 – T23; 2017 – T20; 2016 – T44
2023 LPGA TOUR PERFORMANCE
16 events played, 14 cuts made; $1,203,340 with one win and three additional top-10 finishes
OF NOTE
- She earns her first win in her 191st career Tour start
- It is her 34th career top-10 finish on Tour
- She becomes the season’s ninth Rolex First-Time Winner, joining Lilia Vu (Honda LPGA Thailand), Ruoning Yin (DIO Implant LA Open), Grace Kim (LOTTE Championship), Rose Zhang (Mizuho Americas Open), Allisen Corpuz (U.S. Women’s Open), Linn Grant (Dana Open), Elizabeth Szokol (Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational) and Alexa Pano (ISPS Handa World Invitational)
- She is the sixth different American winner this season
- She becomes the first American to win the CPKC Women’s Open since Brittany Lincicome in 2011
- She is the 18th different player to win the CPKC Women’s Open since 2001
- She wins her first CPKC Women’s Open in her sixth start at this event
- She crosses the $1 million mark in season earnings with the $375,000 winner’s check ($1,203,340)
- This is her 16th event of the 2023 season
- Her previous season-best finish was a tie for third at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
- She has only missed two cuts so far this season
- She has clinched a spot on the U.S. Solheim Cup Team for 2023, her third appearance in the event
- This is her eighth season on Tour
- Before this win, her career-best finish was second, earned at the 2022 Dana Open
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