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Lee Kyoung-hoon
Lee Kyoung-hoon
Personal information
Born	24 August 1991 (age 33); Seoul, South Korea
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb; 12.9 st)
Sporting nationality	South Korea
Career
Turned professional	2010
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour
Former tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour; OneAsia Tour; Web.com Tour
Professional wins	6
Highest ranking	33 (23 October 2022); (as of 24 November 2024)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	2
Japan Golf Tour	2
Other	2
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	T23: 2023
PGA Championship	T29: 2023
U.S. Open	T37: 2022
The Open Championship	CUT: 2022, 2023
Medal record
Asian Games

Lee Kyoung-hoon (Korean: 이경훈; Hanja: 李京勲; born 24 August 1991), also known as K. H. Lee, is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2021 and 2022 AT&T Byron Nelson.

Professional career

Lee turned professional in 2010 and joined the OneAsia Tour for 2011, earning his card through qualifying school. He finished 39th on the Order of Merit with his best finish being a tie for sixth. He joined the Japan Golf Tour in 2012 and recorded a runner-up finish in his second event of the year. He won the Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega Sammy Cup in July.^[2]

Lee claimed his first victory on the OneAsia Tour in September 2015, with a four stroke victory at the Kolon Korea Open. In October 2015, Lee won for the third time in his career, and second time on the Japan Golf Tour when he secured victory at the Honma TourWorld Cup at Trophia Golf.^[3]

Lee moved to the United States in 2016 to play the Web.com Tour, after finishing 8th in the Web.com Tour qualifying tournament. His best result was 4th at the WinCo Foods Portland Open. Two weeks later, he won the Kolon Korean Open, and in October he finished second at the Japan Open Golf Championship and Bridgestone Open. He finished only 78th on the Web.com Tour, and played again in the qualifying tournament, where he tied for 14th place.^[4] He returned to the Web.com Tour in 2017 where his best finish was tied for third place in the Rex Hospital Open.^[5] In 2018, he finished fifth in the Web.com Tour regular season rankings to earn a promotion to the PGA Tour.^[6]

At the 2021 Waste Management Phoenix Open, Lee finished in a tie for second, one stroke behind winner, Brooks Koepka.^[7] Three months later, Lee earned his first PGA Tour win at the 2021 AT&T Byron Nelson, with a score of 25-under-par, beating runner-up Sam Burns by three strokes.^[8] A year later, Lee successfully defended his title at the AT&T Byron Nelson, shooting 26-under-par; beating Jordan Spieth by one shot.^[9]

In September 2022, Lee was selected for the International team in the 2022 Presidents Cup; he won two and lost one of the three matches he played.^[10]

Professional wins (6)

PGA Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	16 May 2021	AT&T Byron Nelson	−25 (65-65-67-66=263)	3 strokes	Sam Burns
2	15 May 2022	AT&T Byron Nelson (2)	−26 (64-68-67-63=262)	1 stroke	Jordan Spieth

Japan Golf Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	8 Jul 2012	Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega Sammy Cup	−19 (65-69-70-65=269)	2 strokes	Kim Hyung-sung
2	11 Oct 2015	Honma TourWorld Cup	−16 (71-65-65-67=268)	1 stroke	Tomohiro Kondo, Ryuichi Oda, Taichi Teshima, Wu Ashun

OneAsia Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	13 Sep 2015	Kolon Korea Open¹	−13 (68-69-68-66=271)	4 strokes	Kim Meen-whee
2	11 Sep 2016	Kolon Korea Open¹ (2)	−16 (65-67-68-68=268)	3 strokes	Choi Jin-ho

¹Co-sanctioned by the Korean Tour

Korean Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	13 Sep 2015	Kolon Korea Open¹	−13 (68-69-68-66=271)	4 strokes	Kim Meen-whee
2	11 Sep 2016	Kolon Korea Open¹ (2)	−16 (65-67-68-68=268)	3 strokes	Choi Jin-ho