Feng Shanshan

Feng Shanshan

Feng Shanshan, born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province on August 5, 1989, is a Chinese woman golfer. The first Olympic Golf medal winner in Chinese history. The winner of LPGA Championship (Grand Slam) in 2012.

In 1999, Feng Shanshan joined the Guangdong High Tech Association to form a golf youth team and began to learn golf. In 2003, he began to compete in China. In 2004, she entered the Chinese National Women's golf team for the first time. In 2007, he passed the qualification school examination in the United States and became the first player in mainland China to win the LPGA Tour card. At the end of the year, she made her professional debut in the Oriental China Women's open. On August 7, 2011, he won the first professional championship in Meiji cup of Japan tour.

On June 11, 2012, Feng Shanshan won the LPGA championship, the second event of the four World Women's professional golf Grand Slam, becoming the first champion of China's women's professional golf Grand Slam. On January 19, 2013, he was awarded the best non Olympic athlete of the year by cctv2012. On October 6, he won the champion of Huabin LPGA China elite competition and became the first Chinese athlete to win the LPGA champion in China. On November 13, Feng Shanshan was elected as "the first top ten outstanding youth of Guangfu people in the world". In May 2015, won the women's European tour Buick championship. On August 21, 2016, at the Rio Olympic Games, Feng Shanshan completed the competition with 274 strokes (70-67-68-69), 10 strokes lower than par. She won the first bronze medal in the Olympic women's golf event since 112 years, which is the first Olympic Golf medal in Chinese history.

On November 5, 2017, Feng Shanshan successfully defended her title in the 44th toto Japan elite and won the eighth LPGA championship in her career. On November 11, 2017, Feng Shanshan won the championship in the finals of the 2017lpga Blue Bay masters, ranking first in the world of women's golf.

Early experience

In 1999, Guangdong High Tech Association set up a golf youth team. Ten year old Feng Shanshan was called into the team and became the youngest player in the team. She began to learn the ball. In 2000, he won the second place in the group under 13 of the national youth amateur championship. In 2003, 14-year-old Feng Shanshan began to compete in China. She also participated in the national tour Queen's cup as the National Junior Champion and won the Junior Champion.

Sports experience

In 2004, she entered the Chinese National Women's golf team for the first time. In the same year, at the Queen's Cup held in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, Feng Shanshan, who was less than 15 years old, partnered with Shang Linyan, Li Wei and others to represent the Chinese team. In the end, Feng Shanshan won the third place, helped the Chinese team win the group runner up, and helped the Chinese team achieve the best result in the history of the Queen's cup.

In 2007, he passed the qualification school examination in the United States and became the first player in mainland China to win the LPGA Tour card. At the end of 2007, she made her professional debut in the Oriental China Women's open and won the seventh tie (three rounds - one shot).

On September 15, 2008, Feng Shanshan played steadily in the last round of the LPGA bell elite, hit 68 shots and lost one shot to Angela Stamford to win the second place. In October, she made 68 strokes in the LPGA competition of grand Xinhua Airlines. She finished sixth with 211 strokes (70-73-68), 5 strokes lower than the standard.

In 2010, he was admitted to the 2011 season of the Japanese tour.

First championship: Meiji cup in Japan Tour

On August 7, 2011, Feng Shanshan won the Meiji Cup women's golf tournament on the Japanese women's tour with a total score of - 14 (68-67-67) in three rounds, winning the championship over Japan's Gu xianmeibao and South Korea's Zhang Yingbi

First professional champion since 2007

He is also the second mainland Chinese player to win the Japanese tour after Zhang Na. And it's just her second day tour, and she won it.

Second prize: Miyagi TV cup

In the second half of 2011, Feng Shanshan mainly focused on the Japanese tour. She continuously participated in the Meiji cup, NEC cup, Golf 5, Konica Minolta cup and Miyagi TV cup, and won the Meiji cup and Miyagi TV cup. At the Miyagi TV cup on September 25, Feng Shanshan showed great courage in the final round, catching five birds and eating bogey in hole 9. In the end, she handed over 68 shots and won her second victory of the season with a score of - 8.

Third championship: European Tour World Women's Golf Championship

On March 4, 2012, Feng Shanshan won the first World Women's Golf Championship at Guanlan Lake No.3 golf course in Haikou City, Hainan Province, China. In this international competition with a new three in one competition system, China's domestic players have won the individual professional, individual amateur and inter Team Championships at one stroke. Feng Shanshan, China's No. 12 player in the world, handed over 71 strokes in the final round and won the third personal professional championship with 206 strokes lower than the standard pole and 10 strokes, winning the championship prize of US $75000. At the same time, it's her first victory in China since she changed her career, and it's also the first time that the women's European tour has China's inner earth holding cup.

Fourth championship: YONEX women's Day Tour

On May 27, 2012, the Japanese tour YONEX women's match ended at UNIX Country Club in Niigata. Feng Shanshan made 69 shots in the last round, with a total score of 208 shots (70-69-69) in three rounds. He was tied with the second round leader, Yukari Baba (69-67-72) in the Japanese racecourse, and entered the extended race. In the end, Feng Shanshan caught the bird in the second hole extension match and defeated her opponent. Feng Shanshan won her second championship in 2012, her third day tour championship in her career and her fourth championship in her career.

Fifth: Women's Grand Slam LPGA Championship

On June 11, 2012, in the LPGA championship of the second event of the 2012 World Women's professional golf four grand slam in Pittsford, the United States, Feng Shanshan caught five birds and played 67 strokes with zero bogey, with a total score of 282 (6 strokes lower than the standard), and beat Susannah Peterson, Stacy Lewis, Susannah Peterson with two strokes Chi Enxi, miyori Meixiang and other famous generals won the Grand Slam Championship for the first time, and became the world's leading player

The first mainland Chinese player to win the LPGA Grand Slam Championship

. The prize money for the champion is $375000. This champion is of great significance to Feng Shanshan and China golf.

Sixth championship: Meiji cup in Japan Tour

On August 5, 2012, the "Meiji Cup" of the Japanese tour ended. Feng Shanshan scored 67 strokes (- 4) with zero bogey in the final round. In the following four hole extension, she defeated local player Zhu Jianli Ren and South Korean famous general an xuanzhu to defend the championship. She won the fourth Championship of the Japanese tour and the sixth international competition of her career, and also gained 1, 6.2 million yen for the champion prize (1.3122 million yuan in total).

Seventh Championship: Japan tour Japan Women's open

On September 30, 2012, the Japanese tour women's open ended at the West course of Yokohama Country Golf Club. Feng Shanshan, a Chinese player, scored 71 strokes in the last round and tied par (68-75-74-71) in four rounds, leading South Korean Park renfei by one stroke to win the championship. So far, since her official landing in the Japanese tour in 2011, Feng Shanshan has won five championships in the Japanese tour, surpassing the quadruple champion Zhang Na and becoming the Chinese player who won the most Championships in the Japanese tour.

Eighth Championship: Omega Dubai women's Masters

On December 8, 2012, at the end of the women's European tour, in the Omega Dubai women's masters, Feng Shanshan scored 69 below par 3 in the final round, with a total score of 267 below par 21 in the four rounds, winning the second women's European tour champion of the season. At the same time, she also broke the record for the lowest number of strokes in the event - the previous record was 18 under par, which was set by Swedish player Annika Sorenstam in 2006 and equalled by South Korean player Jin Yinjing when he won the championship in 2009.

In September 2013, he led the Guangdong team and won the women's Golf Team Championship in the National Games.

Ninth Championship: LPGA Huabin China Elite

On October 6, 2013, the first Huabin LPGA China elite tournament with a total bonus of 1.8 million US dollars was put out at the niclaus stadium of Huabin manor in Beijing. In the final round, Feng Shanshan scored 5-68 under par, with a total score of 266 (70-64-64-68), 26 under par, and won the champion of Huabin LPGA China elite, becoming the first Chinese athlete to win the LPGA champion in China. It was also her second LPGA championship in her career and won a $270000 prize. In the first year of Huabin China elite, as a sponsor of Huabin, Feng Shanshan put on a good play.

10th Championship: LPGA CME Group Championship

November 24, 2013, the last game of LPGA Tour, with a total bonus of US $2 million

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