F-21: Top 60 points leaders in the Official World Golf Ranking as of May 20
An won the 2009 U.S. Amateur Championship at Southern Hills C.C. in Tulsa, Okla., with a 7-and-5 win over Ben Martin, becoming at 17 years of age the youngest winner in the championship's history. He was a semifinalist one year later at Chambers Bay. He broke through for his first European Tour victory in the circuit's flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship, in 2015, shooting a final-round 65 to win by six strokes over Thongchai Jaidee and Miguel Angel Jimenez. An captured the 2022 LECOM Suncoast Classic on the Korn Ferry Tour. An also was the runner-up in the 2016 Zurich Classic of New Orleans on the PGA Tour. His father, Jae-Hyung Ahn, and mother, Jiao Zhimin, were both medalists in table tennis in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul; Byeong-Hun moved to the U.S. in 2005 to attend the David Leadbetter Academy in Florida, and briefly attended the University of California-Berkeley before turning pro in 2011. This will be his eighth U.S. Open start, but first since 2020.
YEAR
2024
SITE
Pinehurst Resort & Country Club (Course No. 2)
SCORES
74-78
TO PAR
+12
FINISH
MC
YEAR
2020
SITE
Winged Foot Golf Club (West Course)
SCORES
71-76
TO PAR
+7
FINISH
MC
YEAR
2019
SITE
Pebble Beach Golf Links
SCORES
70-72-68-71--281
TO PAR
-3
FINISH
T-16
YEAR
2018
SITE
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
SCORES
71-76-81-78--306
TO PAR
+26
FINISH
67
YEAR
2017
SITE
Erin Hills
SCORES
71-76
TO PAR
+3
FINISH
MC
YEAR
2016
SITE
Oakmont Country Club
SCORES
74-70-73-70--287
TO PAR
+7
FINISH
T-23
YEAR
2015
SITE
Chambers Bay
SCORES
73-76
TO PAR
+9
FINISH
MC
YEAR
2010
SITE
Pebble Beach Golf Links
SCORES
79-75
TO PAR
+12
FINISH
MC