2022-23 Women's Golf Roster
Bae, Jenny
Jenny Bae
- Height:
- 5-3
- Class:
- Fifth Year
- High School:
- Collins Hill High School
- Hometown:
- Suwanee, Ga.
Bio
Final Bio (including career stats)
2022-23 Season Highlights
• Recipient of the Juli Inkster Award as the top female collegiate golfer in her final season of eligibility.
• A finalist for the ANNIKA Award, WGCA PING National Player of the Year and the Honda Award for women’s golf.
• Named first-team All-America by the WGCA and Golfweek.
• Wrapped up the season ranked No. 5 by GolfStat and Golfweek.
• Voted first-team All-SEC and named SEC Golfer of the Week on three three times this season – Oct. 13, Oct. 27 and April 5.
• The only golfer in UGA’s lineup for all 12 team tournaments.
• Shattered Georgia’s season stroke average record, compiling a 70.75 mark which was .29 per round better than the previous mark.
• Also broke the school season record with 25 par-or-better rounds, and played 36 loops on the year at a combined 36-under.
• Fired a career-low 6-under 65 in the second round of the Cougar Classic, the first of her 13 rounds in the 60s during the season.
• Notched top-5 finishes at eight of 12 events, with a pair of wins that produced the two best tourney scores in school history – 16-under at the Illini Invitational and 13-under at the Athens Regional.
• Bested Bailey Tardy’s previous UGA tourney mark by four strokes.
• Shot 9-under over 54 holes (one off the tournament record) to finish tied for the individual lead at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur before falling to Rose Zhang on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.
• Broke the ANWA tournament record with 16 birdies (one more than Maria Fassi in 2019) and equaled the ANWA Champions Retreat mark with seven birdies (tying Yuka Yasadu in 2019).
2021-22 Season Highlights
• Tabbed honorable mention All-America by Golfweek for the second consecutive season.
• One of two golfers – along with Caterina Don – to earn a spot in the lineup for all 11 team tournaments and notched four top-10 and seven top-20 individual efforts.
• Wrapped up the season with a team-best 72.59 stroke average, the 10th-best single season mark in program history, and also led the Bulldogs in counting percentage (.922), birdies (97) and low 54-hole score (8-under 208).
• Georgia’s top individual finisher at four tournaments – the Cougar Classic, the Columbia Classic, the NCAA Albuquerque Regional and the NCAA Championships (where she tied with Candice Mahé for sixth).
• Opened the season with an 8-under effort at the Cougar Classic, matching her career-best tally over 54 holes and also equaling the fifth-best mark in program history.
• Fired a 4-under 68 in the second round of the Cougar Classic to help Georgia post a school-record 14-under 274 team total.
• Among 12 players invited to the USGA’s International Team Selection Working Group practices in January as part of the selections for the 2022 Curtis Cup.
• Named SEC Golfer of the Week on Feb. 16 after tying for fourth place at the Columbia Classic.
• Invited to the 2022 Augusta National Women’s Am, where she shot 76-77=153 and tied for 43rd.
• Finished as the individual runner-up and led Georgia to a third-place finish at the Albuquerque Regional.
• Tied for sixth individually – along with teammate Candice Mahé – at the NCAA Championships to lead Georgia to a tie for fifth in the team field, the Bulldogs’ best finish in two decades.
• In the process, Bae and Mahé became: 1) the only teammates to finish in the top-10 individually at the 2022 NCAAs; and 2) the first pair of Bulldogs to record top-10 efforts at the NCAAs since 2002.
2020-21 Season Highlights
• Selected as an honorable mention All-American by Golfweek.
• Voted second-team All-SEC in balloting of league coaches.
• One of two golfers – along with Jo Hua Hung – to participate in all 11 tournaments and led UGA in average (72.94), counters (100 percent), top-20s (seven), birdies (98) and par-or-better rounds (13).
• Georgia’s top individual finisher at six events – at Blessings and the Ally in the fall and the Gamecock, SEC Championships, NCAA Columbus Regional and NCAA Championships in the spring.
• Finished the fall ranked No. 10 and No. 12 nationally according to Golfstat and Golfweek, respectively.
• Fired a career-low 8-under 208 at the SEC Championships.
• Posted her career-best 18-hole effort – a 4-under 68 – on four occasions, including twice at the SECs.
• Shot 4-under 210 to capture medalist honors by three shots at the NCAA Columbus Regional – and and also lead Georgia to a 15-stroke win over the team field
• Grabbed the lead in Columbus while birdieing six of her last seven holes of the second round and remained atop the leaderboard throughout the final round.
• Enjoyed a stellar summer headlined by a trio of victories in a one-week span from June 30-July 5.
• Posted an 11-under 205 tally en route to a 5-stroke victory at the Georgia Women’s Amateur Championship on June 30.
• The next morning, began another wire-to-wire win by shooting 6-under 136 on her way to a 2-shot decision at the Georgia Women’s Open.
• Three days after that, fired a 5-under 67 to capture medalist honors at a U.S. Women’s Amateur qualifier.
• Shot even-par 144 and tied for 12th over two days of stroke play qualifying to at the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Westchester Country Club. In match play, advanced to the Round of 16 by defeating Bailey Davis (3-and-2) and Anna Morgan (1-up) before falling to eventual champion Jensen Castle (4-and-2).
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 in 16 of 17 rounds, a 94.1 percent clip, with a low loop of 1-under 71 on the opening day of the Lady Puerto Rico Classic.
• Tied with Caterina Don as the Bulldogs’ low individual finisher at Stanford, shooting 3-over 216 to tie for 23rd overall.
• Extremely consistent at the final two fall events, posting tallies between 71-74 for all six rounds of the Stanford Intercollegiate and White Sands Invitational.
• 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 in June. Shot 67-68=135 to finish at 9-under 135, two strokes behind Taylor Totland on the leaderboard.
• Won the 2020 GSGA Match Play Championship in impressive fashion, defeating Madison Barnett in the 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 golf in stroke/match play at a combined 13-under over the three-day event.
2018-19 Season Highlights
• Named to the SEC’s All-Freshman team in balloting of league coaches.
• Joined the Bulldogs as a mid-year enrollee in January and earned a spot in the lineup for every tournament in the 2019 calendar portion of the schedule.
• Notched three top-10s and four top-20s in eight tournaments during the spring campaign.
• Contributed counting scores at a 85.0 percent rate, doing so in 17 of 20 rounds.
• Georgia’s top individual finisher at both the Gold Rush (eighth) and the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate (ninth).
• Named SEC Freshman of the Week on March 13, after finishing ninth individually at the Darius Rucker...and doing so against a field featuring five of the nation’s top-10 golfers and 21 of the top-50.
• Finished as runner-up at the 2019 Georgia Women’s Open during the summer of 2019, carding rounds of 68 and 69 to wrap up play at Achasta Golf Club with a 7-under 137 tally.
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 at The Club at Savannah Harbor, 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., covering the 72-hole event 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 School.
• Individually, also finished fourth at the GHSA state tournament as a freshman and sixth as a sophomore.
Personal
• Born August 25, 2001, Jenny is the daughter of Hannah and Peter Bae and is majoring in Sport Management.
• Recipient of the Mary B. Dinos Women’s Golf Scholarship for 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22.
2022-23 Season Highlights
• Recipient of the Juli Inkster Award as the top female collegiate golfer in her final season of eligibility.
• A finalist for the ANNIKA Award, WGCA PING National Player of the Year and the Honda Award for women’s golf.
• Named first-team All-America by the WGCA and Golfweek.
• Wrapped up the season ranked No. 5 by GolfStat and Golfweek.
• Voted first-team All-SEC and named SEC Golfer of the Week on three three times this season – Oct. 13, Oct. 27 and April 5.
• The only golfer in UGA’s lineup for all 12 team tournaments.
• Shattered Georgia’s season stroke average record, compiling a 70.75 mark which was .29 per round better than the previous mark.
• Also broke the school season record with 25 par-or-better rounds, and played 36 loops on the year at a combined 36-under.
• Fired a career-low 6-under 65 in the second round of the Cougar Classic, the first of her 13 rounds in the 60s during the season.
• Notched top-5 finishes at eight of 12 events, with a pair of wins that produced the two best tourney scores in school history – 16-under at the Illini Invitational and 13-under at the Athens Regional.
• Bested Bailey Tardy’s previous UGA tourney mark by four strokes.
• Shot 9-under over 54 holes (one off the tournament record) to finish tied for the individual lead at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur before falling to Rose Zhang on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.
• Broke the ANWA tournament record with 16 birdies (one more than Maria Fassi in 2019) and equaled the ANWA Champions Retreat mark with seven birdies (tying Yuka Yasadu in 2019).
2021-22 Season Highlights
• Tabbed honorable mention All-America by Golfweek for the second consecutive season.
• One of two golfers – along with Caterina Don – to earn a spot in the lineup for all 11 team tournaments and notched four top-10 and seven top-20 individual efforts.
• Wrapped up the season with a team-best 72.59 stroke average, the 10th-best single season mark in program history, and also led the Bulldogs in counting percentage (.922), birdies (97) and low 54-hole score (8-under 208).
• Georgia’s top individual finisher at four tournaments – the Cougar Classic, the Columbia Classic, the NCAA Albuquerque Regional and the NCAA Championships (where she tied with Candice Mahé for sixth).
• Opened the season with an 8-under effort at the Cougar Classic, matching her career-best tally over 54 holes and also equaling the fifth-best mark in program history.
• Fired a 4-under 68 in the second round of the Cougar Classic to help Georgia post a school-record 14-under 274 team total.
• Among 12 players invited to the USGA’s International Team Selection Working Group practices in January as part of the selections for the 2022 Curtis Cup.
• Named SEC Golfer of the Week on Feb. 16 after tying for fourth place at the Columbia Classic.
• Invited to the 2022 Augusta National Women’s Am, where she shot 76-77=153 and tied for 43rd.
• Finished as the individual runner-up and led Georgia to a third-place finish at the Albuquerque Regional.
• Tied for sixth individually – along with teammate Candice Mahé – at the NCAA Championships to lead Georgia to a tie for fifth in the team field, the Bulldogs’ best finish in two decades.
• In the process, Bae and Mahé became: 1) the only teammates to finish in the top-10 individually at the 2022 NCAAs; and 2) the first pair of Bulldogs to record top-10 efforts at the NCAAs since 2002.
2020-21 Season Highlights
• Selected as an honorable mention All-American by Golfweek.
• Voted second-team All-SEC in balloting of league coaches.
• One of two golfers – along with Jo Hua Hung – to participate in all 11 tournaments and led UGA in average (72.94), counters (100 percent), top-20s (seven), birdies (98) and par-or-better rounds (13).
• Georgia’s top individual finisher at six events – at Blessings and the Ally in the fall and the Gamecock, SEC Championships, NCAA Columbus Regional and NCAA Championships in the spring.
• Finished the fall ranked No. 10 and No. 12 nationally according to Golfstat and Golfweek, respectively.
• Fired a career-low 8-under 208 at the SEC Championships.
• Posted her career-best 18-hole effort – a 4-under 68 – on four occasions, including twice at the SECs.
• Shot 4-under 210 to capture medalist honors by three shots at the NCAA Columbus Regional – and and also lead Georgia to a 15-stroke win over the team field
• Grabbed the lead in Columbus while birdieing six of her last seven holes of the second round and remained atop the leaderboard throughout the final round.
• Enjoyed a stellar summer headlined by a trio of victories in a one-week span from June 30-July 5.
• Posted an 11-under 205 tally en route to a 5-stroke victory at the Georgia Women’s Amateur Championship on June 30.
• The next morning, began another wire-to-wire win by shooting 6-under 136 on her way to a 2-shot decision at the Georgia Women’s Open.
• Three days after that, fired a 5-under 67 to capture medalist honors at a U.S. Women’s Amateur qualifier.
• Shot even-par 144 and tied for 12th over two days of stroke play qualifying to at the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Westchester Country Club. In match play, advanced to the Round of 16 by defeating Bailey Davis (3-and-2) and Anna Morgan (1-up) before falling to eventual champion Jensen Castle (4-and-2).
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 in 16 of 17 rounds, a 94.1 percent clip, with a low loop of 1-under 71 on the opening day of the Lady Puerto Rico Classic.
• Tied with Caterina Don as the Bulldogs’ low individual finisher at Stanford, shooting 3-over 216 to tie for 23rd overall.
• Extremely consistent at the final two fall events, posting tallies between 71-74 for all six rounds of the Stanford Intercollegiate and White Sands Invitational.
• 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 in June. Shot 67-68=135 to finish at 9-under 135, two strokes behind Taylor Totland on the leaderboard.
• Won the 2020 GSGA Match Play Championship in impressive fashion, defeating Madison Barnett in the 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 golf in stroke/match play at a combined 13-under over the three-day event.
2018-19 Season Highlights
• Named to the SEC’s All-Freshman team in balloting of league coaches.
• Joined the Bulldogs as a mid-year enrollee in January and earned a spot in the lineup for every tournament in the 2019 calendar portion of the schedule.
• Notched three top-10s and four top-20s in eight tournaments during the spring campaign.
• Contributed counting scores at a 85.0 percent rate, doing so in 17 of 20 rounds.
• Georgia’s top individual finisher at both the Gold Rush (eighth) and the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate (ninth).
• Named SEC Freshman of the Week on March 13, after finishing ninth individually at the Darius Rucker...and doing so against a field featuring five of the nation’s top-10 golfers and 21 of the top-50.
• Finished as runner-up at the 2019 Georgia Women’s Open during the summer of 2019, carding rounds of 68 and 69 to wrap up play at Achasta Golf Club with a 7-under 137 tally.
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 at The Club at Savannah Harbor, 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., covering the 72-hole event 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 School.
• Individually, also finished fourth at the GHSA state tournament as a freshman and sixth as a sophomore.
Personal
• Born August 25, 2001, Jenny is the daughter of Hannah and Peter Bae and is majoring in Sport Management.
• Recipient of the Mary B. Dinos Women’s Golf Scholarship for 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22.
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