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PHOENIX (AP) Se Ri Pak is retiring after the season, ending a Hall of Fame career that inspired a wave of South Korean players who followed her to the LPGA Tour.
The 38-year-old Pak broke the news Thursday after opening with a 3-under 69 in the JTBC Founders Cup.
Pak won 25 LPGA Tour titles and five majors, two of them as a rookie in 1998. She was the youngest player to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame when she was enshrined in 2007 at age 30.
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''Pak-mania'' ruled in the summer of `98, especially after she won the U.S. Women's Open at Blackwolf Run in a 20-hole playoff against amateur Jenny Chuasiriporn.
Hampered by left shoulder problems, Pak last won in 2010.
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