2025-26 Women's Golf Roster
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Park, Catherine
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Catherine Park
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Irvine, Calif.
- High School:
- Crean Lutheran
Bio
JUNIOR/2024-25
SOPHOMORE/2023-24
FRESHMAN/2022-23
HIGH SCHOOL
PERSONAL
- WGCA and Golfweek All-American Second Team
- All-Big Ten First Team
- Big Team Sportmanship Team Honoree
- Big Ten Golfer of the Week (Sept. 19)
- Set the USC single season records for top ten finishes (10) and par or better rounds (26).
- Posted the second best single season stroke average in program history (71.00); led the team.
- Recorded one victory, as she picked up her fourth career victory at the Leadership and Golf Invitational (Sept. 17).
- Finished tied for fifth at the NCAA Championships at six-under par.
- Ended her junior season second on the team in rounds in the 60s (9), rounds under par (17) and birdies (130).
- Was a runner up for four tournaments, as she ended up in second place behind teammate Jasmine Koo in three of those events (Stanford Intercollegiate; East Lake Cup; Juli Inkster at Meadow Club Invitational).
- Tied the best round in program history - by score - as she recorded a 63 (-8) in the third round of the Stanford Intercollegiate (Oct. 20).
- Went 2-0-2 in match play, as she collected victories over UCLA (twice; East Lake Cup Semifinal and Battle for the Bell) and had ties against LSU (East lake Cup Final) and Florida State (NCAA Quarterfinals).
- Tied for fourth at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur at eight-under par.
- At the end of the season, ranked as the No. 14 player (Clippd Scoreboard Rankings) and the No. 7 player in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.
- Selected to Team USA for the Arnold Palmer Cup.
SOPHOMORE/2023-24
- WGCA and Golfweek All-American First Team
- ANNIKA Award Finalist
- All-Conference Pac-12 First Team
- Led USC in stroke average (70.94), wins (three), rounds of par or better (23), top 25 (nine), top ten (seven), and birdies (129).
- Won her first career tournament at the Stanford Intercollegiate (Oct. 20-22) at seven-under par. Shared the Silverado Showdown title (Apr. 8-10) at seven-under par.
- Claimed the first Pac-12 Tournament Individual Title since 2003. Broke the Pac-12 Tournament record at 15-under par. Set the Pac-12 single round score record, posting a 64 (-8) in the second round of the tournament.
- Finished tied for second alongside teammate Brianna Navarrosa at the Leadership and Golf Invitational to open the season.
- Broke two program records: most rounds at par or better (23) and stroke average (70.94).
- Tied for 5th at the NCAA East Lansing Regional.
- Tied for the best finish as an Amateur at the 2024 U.S. Women’s Open, putting herself in a tie for 44th place at 12-over par.
- Finished the season, as the No. 6 ranked player in the World Amateur Golf Rankings
- Selected to the U.S. Curtis Cup team and the U.S. Arnold Palmer Cup team.
FRESHMAN/2022-23
- Played in 13 tournaments for the Women of Troy as a freshman and ranked second on the team with a 72.36 stroke average.
- Finished as the NCAA Individual Runner-up, as she ended her tournament nine-under par including a NCAA Championships record-tying score of 64 (-8).
- Named to the WGCA All-American Honorable Mention List.
- Selected to the Pac-12 All-Conference First Team.
- Recorded all four of her top-ten finishes in the final six tournaments she appeared in.
- Finished tied for second with a two-under par outing at the Silverado Showdown at the Silverado Resort and Spa.
- She carded four rounds in the 60s and 17 rounds of par or better.
- Park received medalist status during stroke play at the Women’s Western Amateur after breaking the White Eagle Golf Club course record with a 64 (-8), and finishing with a tournament total, 134 (-10). The freshman became the first Trojan to win the medalist position since Allisen Corpuz in 2017.
- Began her freshman year at USC fresh off a summer in which she played at both the U.S. Women’s Open and the U.S. Amateur.
HIGH SCHOOL
- Park, from Irvine, Calif., and a graduate of Crean Lutheran High, was the eighth-ranked senior in her class in the Golfweek rankings and No. 16 overall.
- She was a two-time Rolex All-American.
- She won the 2019 Se Ri Park Junior Championship and had five 2021 top 10 finishes in AJGA events, including a tie for third at the Dustin Johnson World Junior and a tie for fifth at the PING Heather Farr Classic.
- Park reached match play at both the 2021 Women’s North & South Amateur and the 2020 U.S. Women’s Amateur (where she fell in the first round in 20 holes). She was third at the 2019 Swinging Skirts AJGA Invitational and eighth at the 2019 Rolex Tournament of Champions
- Qualified for the 2022 U.S. Amateur as a co-medalist teammate Brianna Navarrosa with a 67 at the Las Posas C.C. qualifier.
- Played at the 2022 U.S. Women’s Open, but did not make the cut.
PERSONAL
- She is a business administration major.
- Park’s mother, Seo Hyang-soon, became Korea’s first Olympic gold medalist when she won gold medal in archery at the 1984 Olympics at the age of 17. Park’s father, Park Kyung-ho, is a 1986 Asian Games gold medalist in judo.
CAREER NOTES
Lowest 54-Hole Score: 15-under, 201 (2024 Pac-12 Championship)
Lowest Round: 63 (2025 Stanford Intercollegiate; Third Round)
Highest Finish: 1st, Four-Times (2025 Leadership and Golf Invitational, 2023 Stanford Intercollegiate, 2024 Silverado Showdown, 2024 Pac-12 Championship)
Top 10s: 21
Rounds in the 60s: 22
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