It was her third outing at a PGA Tour event she missed the cut by two strokes. She played five more LPGA Tour events that year as well as a PGA Tour event, the John Deere Classic. Wie started her 2005 season by accepting another sponsor's invitation to play on the PGA Tour at the Sony Open in Hawaii, where she again missed the cut. team, she became the youngest woman ever to play in the Curtis Cup tournament. She again played in the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship, finishing fourth. At age 16, 2 years later she shot another round of 68 in the men's tour Sony open and bettered the 36 hole score of 18 men including 2 major winners and matched the score of 9 others including 1 major winner. This in itself was an utterly incredible achievement by a 14 year-old girl. While missing the cut by 1 stroke she bettered the 36 hole score of 47 men including 4 major winners and matched the scores of 15 more men including 3 more major winners. Her second round score of 68 was the lowest ever by a woman in a PGA Tour event, though she went on to miss the cut in the tournament. Wie was given a sponsor's exemption to the 2004 Sony Open in Hawaii, becoming the fourth, and youngest, female to play a PGA Tour event. Later that summer, she made the cut at the US Women's Open when she was still just 13, the youngest player ever to do so. In June 2003, Wie won the Women's Amateur Public Links tournament, becoming the youngest person ever, male or female, to win a USGA adult event. She carded a 66 in the third round, tying the amateur record for a women's major championship and qualifying her to play in the final group of the championship. Īt the 2003 Kraft Nabisco Championship, Wie became the youngest player to make an LPGA cut. While she went on to miss the cut, her record stood for five more years until it was broken in 2007 by 11-year-old Ariya Jutanugarn. She also became the youngest player to qualify for an LPGA event, the Takefuji Classic held in Wie's home state of Hawaii.
In 2002, she won the Hawaii State Open Women's Division by thirteen shots. She also advanced into match play at the Women's U.S.
Wilson Women's Invitations is the oldest and most prestigious women's amateur tournament in Hawaii. In 2001, at the age of 11, she won both the Hawaii State Women's Stroke Play Championship and the Jennie K. Wie remained the youngest player to advance to match play in this tournament, until 2014 when Lucy Li surpassed her by one week. Eight years later, Wie's mark was surpassed by fellow Hawaiian Allisen Corpuz, who qualified when she was five months younger than Wie had been when she set the record. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship. In 2000, at the age of ten, she became the youngest player ever to qualify for the U.S. Wie began playing golf at the age of four. She participated in the university's graduation ceremony in June 2012. Wie completed her studies at Stanford in March 2012 with a major in communications.
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She took leaves of absence during the rest of the year to play professional golf. During her first three years at Stanford, she attended only during the fall and winter quarters, running from late September through mid-March each year. She enrolled in September 2007 as a freshman, but as a professional golfer, Wie was not eligible under NCAA rules to play for Stanford's golf team.
Her paternal grandfather was a visiting professor, and an aunt and uncle are both graduates. On December 19, 2006, she announced that she would be attending Stanford University, where there are family ties. Wie graduated from Punahou School in Honolulu in June 2007. She renounced her South Korean citizenship in February 2013. When she was born, Wie was a dual citizen of South Korea (by jus sanguinis) and the United States (by jus soli). Her paternal grandfather, Sang-Kyu Wie, a resident of Jangheung, Jeollanam-do, was an emeritus professor at Seoul National University. Her mother, Bo, was South Korea's women's amateur golf champion in 1985, and competed in a Miss Korea beauty pageant. Her father, Byung-wook Wie, is a former professor of travel industry management at the University of Hawaii. She is the only child of immigrant parents from South Korea who came to the United States in the 1980s.
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