Background

Danielle Grace Kang was born on October 20, 1992 in San Francisco, California. Kang experienced childhood in Southern California, and met all requirements for the U.S. Ladies' Open as a 14-year-old in 2007. She started secondary school at Oak Park High School and later exchanged to Westlake High School right on time to start school at Pepperdine University in Malibu in the spring of 2010.

Career

As a novice, Kang won the U.S. Ladies' Amateur twice, in 2010 and 2011. She won the 2017 KPMG Women's PGA Championship which was a LPGA major. In October 2018 she won her second career LPGA competition in China.

She played on the Pepperdine golf group through the regular season in the spring of 2011. She was deemed scholastically ineligible to contend in the 2011 NCAA post-season and expressed that she was not frustrated because she was focused on going pro.

Kang won the U.S. Ladies' Amateur in 2010 and contended in every one of the four majors as a beginner in 2011. She made the cut in three of the majors, including the LPGA Championship, where she was the only amateur in the field. Kang was the skilled beginner at the Women's British Open, completing in a tie for 49th spot