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Article: SE RI'S PACK IS GROWING - AND SO IS ITS SUCCESS SOUTH KOREANS NOW MAJOR FORCE THANKS TO PIONEER'S EFFORTS.(Sports)

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June 20, 2005
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Byline: Lynn DeBruin, Rocky Mountain News

As recently as 1997, there wasn't a single South Korean player on the LPGA Tour.

Now there are 28.

What changed?

Three little words: Se Ri Pak.

"All questions about the Korean influx have to begin with Se Ri Pak," LPGA commissioner Ty Votaw said.

When Pak won two majors as a rookie in 1998, first the LPGA Championship and then the U.S. Women's Open in a 20-hole playoff, South Korean citizens who didn't know a birdie from a bogey celebrated.

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