Lim Jun-woo (20), the eldest son of singer and actor Lim Chang-jeong (53), has obtained associate member status with the Korea Professional Golf Association (KPGA).
According to the KPGA on the 11th, Lim Jun-woo joined the association on May 6 last month and acquired associate member status.
Associate member is a qualification formerly known as "semi-pro." Since 2015, the KPGA has distinguished between "pro" for associate members and "tour pro" for full members.
Lim Jun-woo, who has a robust build of 189 cm and 80 kg, previously revealed that he switched his career path from baseball to golf after watching a golf tournament with his father, Lim Chang-jeong.
In May 2022, when he was 16 years old, Lim Jun-woo appeared on the SBS Golf variety show "Pyeonmeokgo Gongchiri Season 3" alongside his father, Lim Chang-jeong, and demonstrated long-distance driving power reaching 260 to 280 meters.
Four years later, Lim Jun-woo challenged the KPGA pro selection tournament. In the Group A final round held at Solrano Country Club in Taean, Chungnam Province, on the 5th and 6 last month, he recorded 74 strokes in the first round and 77 strokes in the second round, passing the selection with a total of 151 strokes. As a result, he was assigned pro number 9468.
At that time, out of 1,436 applicants who registered for the preliminaries, a total of 50 candidates were selected to obtain professional status, with 25 each from Group A and Group B in the finals. This represents approximately 3.5% of the number of registrants.
Lim Jun-woo also participated in the second KPGA Tour Pro selection tournament held last August, recording a joint 33rd place in Group A of the finals.
Lim Chang-jeong debuted as a singer in August 1995 and received much love for songs such as "Once Again," "You Who Resemble Me," and "A Glass of Soju." He also worked as an actor, appearing in films including "Beat," "Two Sides One Body," "Sex Is Zero," "Sicily 2km," "Pa Song-song Gye-dan-tak," "The Most Beautiful Week of My Life," and "Miracle on First Avenue."
Lim Chang-jeong married Kim Hyun-joo, a former professional golfer who is 11 years his junior, in 2006, and they had three sons: Jun-woo, Jun-seong, and Jun-ho. However, they divorced seven years after their marriage. He later remarried Seo Ha-yeon, a former flight attendant who is 18 years his junior, in 2017, and they have two sons. He is currently raising all five of his sons together, including the three he had with his ex-wife.
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