Danielle Kang Net Worth 2024 | Instagram | Height | Wiki

During the U.S. Women’s Open, her brother posted some news on Instagram. His sister was playing in the major championship with a tumour in her spine. She had withdrawn from the Palos Verdes Championship at the end of April, due to back pain. It wasn’t till the U.S. Women’s Open that the news of the tumour was public.

As Danielle Kang continues to work with her doctors on a plan & she announced on Instagram that she’ll take some time off from golf to recover herself. Along with these three regular LPGA Tour events, she’ll miss the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the same major she won in 2017. That event is scheduled for June 23-26.

Introduction

Danielle Kang is an American golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She become a pro in 2012 and took 144 tournaments to win her first tournament, the 2017 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. She has achieved a total of six victories, and forty-eight top-ten finishes throughout her career. She also placed her forty-eighth on the career money list with a net worth of $ 6 million (INR 48.85 Cr). In 2018, she started a relationship with professional golfer Maverick McNealy, but this ended in 2021.

Early life 

 Kang was born on October 20, 1992, in San Francisco, California to her parents K.S. Kang and Grace Lee who belongs to South Korea and relocated to California. She also has an older brother named Alex who plays on the Korn Ferry Tour. She only started swinging a golf club at twelve years old, and two years later, she qualified for the US Women’s Open.

Quick Facts

Career

 She started her secondary education at Oak Park High School in California and later on transferred to Westlake High School. In 2010, she took her admission to Pepperdine University in Malibu & started playing on the golf team at Pepperdine until the Spring of 2011. She then becomes ineligible for selection after she becomes a pro. During her time at Pepperdine, Kang played at the 2010 and 2011 U.S Women’s Amateur Open and played in all four Majors in 2011 as an amateur. She become notable to the media at the British Open, where she was the lowest amateur in the field.

After defending her Amateur Open title in 2011, she turned professional. In September of that same year, she played in her first event as a Pro at the Walmart NK Arkansas Championship. Unfortunately, she missed the cut & signed up for LPGA Qualifying school at the back end of 2011. She makes it through to stage three to earn Conditional Status for the 2012 season. She then played in nineteen events in 2012 and made thirteen cuts, finishing 52nd on the overall money list. After this amazing performance, she earned a full exemption for the 2013 season.

She struggled so hard to break into the top fifty on the Order of Merit until 2016, when she finished 36th, with three-season top ten finishes. In 2017, she played her first professional victory at the US Women’s PGA Championship. She made a one-shot lead to defeat Brooke Henderson and won the Major title.

2017 was the first year for her on a tour she made $1 million (INR 8.14 Cr) in a season mark. Finished 17th on the money list her form earned her selection to a winning USA Solheim Cup team. Next year Danielle crossed $3 million (INR 24.43 Cr) in career earnings and finished 11th in income for the season. In 2019, Danielle become eleven top-ten finishes, which also includes a victory at the Buick LPGA Shanghai. She then crossed $5 million (INR 40.72 Cr) in career earnings and finished 9th on the Order Of Merit.

2020 was her best season to date, finishing fourth on the money list and winning back-to-back tournaments. In the 2022 season, she won the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, moving her up the world rankings to eighth. In 2019, she partnered with UNICEF, and every time she made a birdie, funds were donated to the campaign to help build a better future for children from developing nations.

She has earned $7,252,950 (INR 59.07 Cr) in prize money on the LPGA Tour. She has an approx net worth of $ 15 million (INR 1,25.97 Cr).

Where Was She Born?

Danielle was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in the Southern California region.

Body Stats

 Kang is a stunning woman with an attractive physique. She is a professional golfer and is approximately 5 feet 6 inches / 168 Cm tall & she weighs 56 kg/123.45 Lbs in weight. Her overall body measurements range from 31 to 24 inches breast, 24 to 34 inches waist, and 34 to 34 inches hip. Along with that, her eyes are black, and she has brown hair.

Danielle Kang returns to Competition with a new attitude in 2023

Danielle Kang was active on the leaderboard for three days at the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open last week before back into a tie for 17th on Sunday. It was a performance short of notable by the Las Vegas golfer. It has been nearly three months since she is not in the LPGA Tour due to a serious medical condition that had decreased her ability to play for nearly a year.

She was diagnosed with a tumour on her spine in the spring. She was out of the LPGA Match Play at her home course Shadow Creek. In late May and the U.S. Women’s Open the first week in June. After that, it was time to stop playing golf & focus on her health and herself with friends, family and medical experts till she could return.

Who Is Danielle Kang’s Caddie?

Olly Brett is with Danielle Kang’s bag since 2017. It means he has caddied for the 28-year-old for four of her five LPGA Tour wins.
He also caddied for her at the 2019 Solheim Cup, and along with that, he will also do it again at the 2021 match play tournament.

Brett has previously worked on the bag for Mel Reid, Sandra Gal, Emily Kristine Pedersen and more to say. He is hugely experienced on tours, especially the LPGA Tour, which Kang plays on. He has spent over eleven years working as a caddie on Tour and is also a part of ‘The Caddie Experience’, where golfers can use a professional caddie for a round of golf. He is based in Leicestershire.

World Ranking

Relationship

According to an article that The Golf Channel published in 2021 revealing that Danielle had been dating PGA Tour Pro Maverick McNealy.

Maverick is also the son of multi-millionaire Scott McNealy who co-founded Sun Microsystems.

How Good Is She At Golf?

 She has earned over $7 million (INR 57.03 Cr) in prize money and is ranked 8th in the world, so we can now say that she is one of the best-ever golfers in the current era.

  Instagram

Kang has 259K followers on Instagram. She shares content related to her family, golf, and sponsors.

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