Jenny Bae ends record-breaking college career with Julie Inkster Award


Jenny Bae is a fifth-year senior on the College of Georgia who completed her collegiate profession this spring by successful the 2023 Juli Inkster Award introduced by Workday. The announcement got here onsite from Workday on the Memorial Event in Dublin, Ohio.

Named after Inkster, who received 17 particular person titles, this award is given to the highest-ranked D1 ladies’s collegiate golfer in her remaining 12 months of eligibility.

Bae completed No. 4 within the D1 ladies’s faculty golf rankings on Golfstat and was No. 5 on the Golfweek rankings. She set a program file by posting eight top-5 finishes in 12 occasions, per a Georgia golf press launch.

She received the Illini Invitational and the NCAA Athens Regional. In these two victories, Bae posted the 2 lowest scores in Georgia historical past, a 16-under on the Illinois occasion and a 13-under on the regional.

“Should you have a look at her final two years, nobody deserves this award greater than Jenny,” Georgia ladies’s head coach Josh Brewer stated. “It’s exhausting to place into phrases what she has meant to our program. She actually put Georgia golf on the worldwide stage along with her efficiency on the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Newbie this spring.”

Bae completed her remaining 12 months with a 70.75 season stroke common, breaking one other college file. To prime all of it off, she completed runner-up on the 2023 Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Newbie to back-to-back particular person NCAA nationwide champion Rose Zhang.

“Jenny had a outstanding profession at Georgia, persevered via the challenges of the worldwide pandemic to earn her faculty diploma, and excelled on the golf course with an incredible senior season,” stated Inkster within the press launch. “I stay up for mentoring Jenny as she navigates the following stage in her skilled and private journeys.”

Profitable the Inkster Award will give Bae an exemption to compete within the 2023 Portland Basic on the LPGA Tour later on the finish of August. She will even routinely advance to the second stage of LPGA Q-Faculty in October. Bae receives $50,000 from Workday as a presenting sponsor of the award to assist her transition into her skilled profession and assist pay for her two-day retreat in Northern California with Inkster.

She has already began her skilled profession as she debuted on the Epson Tour, competing within the Nova Mission Inn Resort and Membership Championship.