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JENNY BAE

5-3 ◊ JUNIOR ◊ SUWANEE, GA. ◊ SPORT MANAGEMENT

JENNY’S SCORECARD

CAREER STATISTICS

Season T RD STK AVG LOW

’18-19 8 20 1478 73.90 69 ‘19-20 6 17 1261 74.18 71 ‘20-21 3 9 652 72.44 68

Totals 17 46 3391 73.72 68

TOP 10 FINISHES: 4 (3/0/1) TOP 20 FINISHES: 8 (4/1/3) PAR OR BETTERS: 14 (4/4/6)

BEST FINISH:

3rd – 2020 The Ally

LOW ROUND:

68 (-4) – 2020 The Ally 2nd

LOW TOURNAMENT:

210 (-6) –2020 The Ally

2018-19 RESULTS

T6 Duel in the Desert ...............73=73 T18 Puerto Rico ............75-72-74=221 8 Gold Rush..............73-72-72=218 9 Darius Rucker ........74-69-72=215 T47 PING/ASU..............74-72-78=224 T23 Liz Murphey.........................75=75

Liz Murphey Match Play......T-L-W T29 SECs......................76-73-74=223

SEC Match Play....................W-W T56 NCAA Regional......79-76-74=229

2019-20 RESULTS

T63 Minnesota ................... 78-76=154 T23 Stanford .................71-73-72=216 T34 White Sands ..........74-74-73=221 T19 Puerto Rico ............71-74-75=220 T21 Gold Rush..............79-75-72=226 T33 Darius Rucker ........79-71-74=224 ◊ Entered 2021 ranked No. 10 and No. 12 nationally ◊ Runner-up at the 2019 & 2020 Georgia Women’s Open ◊ 2020 GSGA Match Play Champion (and stroke play medalist) ◊ 2019 SEC All-Freshman honoree FALL 2020 HIGHLIGHTS:

• Enjoyed a stellar fall, leading the Bulldogs individually at both the Blessings Collegiate Invitational and The Ally. • Finished the fall ranked No. 10 and No. 12 nationally according to Golfstat and Golfweek, respectively. • Posted a 72.44 average, with a team-high six par-or-better loops and a 100 percent counting percentage. • Fired a career-low 6-under 210 at The Ally, with successive par-or-better efforts of 72, 68 and 70. • Tied for fifth – awith teammate Céleste Dao – at the Orlando

International Amateur after shooting 1-under 215. 2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS:

• In the lineup for six of seven events and posted the Bulldogs’ second-best stroke average at 74.18. • Recorded counting efforts 94.1 percent of her 17 rounds. • Tied with Caterina Don as the Bulldogs’ low individual at Stanford, shooting 3-over 216 to tie for 23rd overall. • Opened the spring with a season-best finish – and again tied with Don as Georgia’s low individual – by tying for 19th at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic. • Finished as runner up overall and low amateur at the 2020

Georgia Women’s Open, shooting 9-under 135 to finish two strokes behind Taylor Totland on the leaderboard. • Won the 2020 GSGA Match Play Championship in impressive fashion, defeating Madison Barnett in the championship match 5-and-3. Shot 5-under 66 in qualifying to grab the top seed in the match play bracket. All told, played 81 holes of stroke/match play at a combined 13-under over the three-day event. 2018-19 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS:

2020-21 RESULTS • Named to the SEC’s All-Freshman team in balloting of league coaches.

T11 Blessings Coll. .......76-71-75=222 • Joined the Bulldogs as a mid-year enrollee in January and earned a spot in the lineup for every tourney thereafter.

T3 The Ally ..................72-68-70=210 • Contributed counting scores at a 85.0 percent rate, doing so in 17 of 20 rounds.

T19 Liz Murphey Fall.....76-72-72=220 • Georgia’s top individual finisher at both the Gold Rush and the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate and notched three top-10s and four top-20s in eight tournaments during the spring. • Named SEC Freshman of the Week on March 13, after finishing ninth at the Darius Rucker...against a field featuring five of the nation’s top-10 golfers. • Finished as runner-up at the 2019 Georgia Women’s Open, carding a 7-under 137 tally at Achasta Golf Club. PRE COLLEGIATE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Competed in 25 AJGA events between 2015-18, posting a dozen top-10 finishes. • An honorable mention honoree on the 2016 AJGA Rolex Junior All-America team. • Posted three victories in AJGA events, capturing medalist honors at the 2015 Evitt Foundation RTC Junior All-Star and the 2016 and 2017 Rome Junior Classics. Also had three runner-up efforts. • Captured medalist honors at the 2018 Georgia Junior PGA Championship, firing a 6-under 138 to earn a three-shot victory. • Went on to tie for 11th at the 2018 Girls Junior PGA Championship at Kearney Hills Golf Links in Lexington, Ky., after shooting at 10-under 278. • Won the 2018 GSGA Girls’ Championship in record-setting fashion, shooting 9-under 207 en route to a 10-shot victory at the Country Club of Roswell. • Posted a 4-0 record to help Georgia win the 2018 Women’s Southeastern Challenge Match against Florida and Alabama. Bae helped Georgia secure 25.5 points, besting Florida with 25.0 and Alabama with 12.5. • Shot 1-over 217 to finish tied for 17th at the 2018 AJGA Girls Championship. • Named the 2018 Georgia Class 7A Player of the Year as a junior after winning medalist honors at the state championships representing Collins Hill

High. Individually, also finished fourth at the GHSA state tournament as a freshman and sixth as a sophomore. PERSONAL:

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