2020-21 Georgia Women's Golf Media Guide

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BULLDOG BIOS

JO HUA HUNG 5-4

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JUNIOR

NEW TAIPEI CITY, TAIPEI

2020 SEC Academic Honor Roll 2019 SEC All-Freshman team 4 Wins in 12 Tournaments in the U.S. in 2016 & 2017 29th at the 2016 World Team Amateur Championship

FALL 2020 HIGHLIGHTS:

• In the Georgia lineup for all three fall events, with a best finish of 33rd at the Liz Murphey Fall Collegiate Classic. • Listed at No. 76 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index following the 2020 portion of Georgia’s schedule. • Relatively consistent throughout her nine rounds, shooting between 72-74 during seven of her nine rounds.

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS:

• Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll, one of eight Bulldogs who received the recognition. • One of two golfers – along with Caterina Don – to earn a position in Georgia’s playing five for all seven tourneys. • Posted a 74.20 average en route to producing counting scores for the Bulldogs at an 80.0 percent pace. • Produced six par-or-better rounds, second most on the roster. • Opened and closed the fall with top-25 efforts, tying for 17th at the Minnesota Invitational and 21st at the White Sands Invitational. • Recorded a career-low 54-hole effort of 1-under 215 en route to finishing fourth individually at The Gold Rush.

2018-19 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS:

• Selected to the SEC All-Freshman team in voting of the conference’s coaches. • Arrived in Athens as a mid-year enrollee in January. • Debuted as runner-up at the Duel in the Desert and also posted back-to-back top-20s at the Gold Rush (t-13th) and the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate (t-13th). • Named SEC Freshman of the Week after going 3-0 in match play at the Liz Murphey, including a 4-and-3 win over Arkansas All-American Dylan Kim. Trailed for only one of 50 holes of match play during the LMCC. • Led Georgia in stroke play at the SECs, tying for 12th at 2-over 218, and then was 2-0 in match play. • Wrapped up the season with her fifth par-or-better effort in 20 spring rounds, a 1-under 71 in the NCAA East Lansing Regional.

PRE COLLEGIATE HIGHLIGHTS:

MANAGEMENT

JO HUA’S SCORECARD

CAREER STATISTICS

Season T RD STK AVG LOW ‘18-19 8 20 1479 73.95 69 ‘19-20 7 20 1484 74.20 70 ‘20-21 3 9 679 75.44 72 Totals 18 49 3642 74.33 69 TOP 10 FINISHES: 2 (1/1/0) TOP 20 FINISHES: 6 (4/2/0) PAR OR BETTERS: 12 (5/6/1) BEST FINISH: 2nd – 2019 Duel In The Desert LOW ROUND: 69 (-3) – 2019 SEC 2nd LOW TOURNAMENT: 215 (-1) – 2020 Gold Rush

2018-19 RESULTS

2 Duel in the Desert................70=70 T64 Puerto Rico............. 78-81-74=233 T13 Gold Rush............... 74-72-74=220 T13 Darius Rucker......... 71-73-74=218 T38 PING/ASU............... 74-74-74=222 T23 Liz Murphey..........................75=75 Liz Murphey Match............ W-W-W 12 SECs....................... 73-69-76=218 SEC Match.............................W-W T33 NCAA Regional....... 76-76-71=223

2019-20 RESULTS

T17 Minnesota .................... 72-74=146 T36 The Molly................. 79-79-74=232 T40 Stanford .................. 76-73-70=219 T21 White Sands ........... 72-73-73=218

• Kept a busy schedule in the three years prior to her arrival at UGA, competing in 54 events and recording seven 2019-20 RESULTS victories and 26 top-10 finishes. T37 Blessings Coll. ....... 75-83=73=231 • Most recently before arriving in Athens competed in four professional tournaments, making the cut in each with a 48 The Ally................... 78-74-72=224 top showing of 24th at the Tainan Professional Golf Ladies Open. T33 Liz Murphey Fall...... 74-75-75=224 • Recorded top-10 finishes at 11 national level tournaments between 2016-18, including a victory at the 2016 Standard Chartered Bank National Summer Ranking Tournament and a trio of runner-up showings at the 2018 Third Selection Tournament for the Asian Games National squad, the 2017 Standard Chartered Bank National Summer Ranking Tournament and the 2016 Standard Chartered Bank National Winter Ranking Tournament. • Played in 12 total events in the United States during 2016 and 2017, headlined by a a quartet of victories at the 2016 World Junior Golf Series’ American Junior, the 2016 Aaron Baddeley International Junior, the 2016 AJGA Junior at Centennial and the 2017 Folds of Honor Junior Championship hosted by Bob Estes. • Additional tournaments in the U.S. included top-10 showings at the 2016 IMG Academy Junior World Championship (fourth), the 2017 Memorial Junior (fifth) and the 2017 ACDS/Ryan Moore Junior at Oakbrook (ninth),. • Also secured medalist honors at a pair of Faldo Series events in 2017, the Grand Final (a 4-shot victory at the Al Ain Equestrian, Shooting and Golf Club in the United Arab Emirates) and the Asia Grand Final (a 3-shot win at Laguna Lang Co Golf Club in Vietnam). • Tied for 29th (ironically with former Georgia All-American Harang Lee of Spain) at the 2016 World Amateur Team Championships in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Shot 8-over 296 to lead Chinese Taipei to a 14th-place finish on the team leaderboard.

PERSONAL:

• Born September 24, 1999, Jo Hua is the daughter of Mei-Hei-Lu and Ching-long-Hung and intends to major in Management. • Recipient of the Vickie and Leon Farmer Scholarship for 2019-20 and 2020-21. 16 • 2020 2020--21 georgia golf


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