HaNa Jang Is Leaving the LPGA Tour

In case you missed the information, HaNa Jang is leaving the LPGA Tour next month and could consciousness at the KLPGA Tour.

The purpose? A easy one, one it really is becoming a larger consideration for both men and women on all of the golf tours -- family. LPGA.Com quoted her for this reason:

"I notion being world number one was the most effective aim in my lifestyles and that become in which my happiness comes from," said the 25-year-old, a 4-time winner on the LPGA Tour. "But I found out there are many more crucial matters than that.

"Even though I won four instances (at the LPGA Tour), I nonetheless felt empty inside. I made this selection because being with my circle of relatives is greater essential to me than being the sector's pinnacle golfer."

Golfchannel.com further expanded on her quotes:

"I made up my thoughts after seeing my mother, who's near 70, lead the sort of lonely lifestyles here," Jang stated. "I notion being the great inside the world became my only aim. But any more, I'll spend as a good deal time with my mother as I can."

Both golfchannel.com and golfweek.com also noted that Jang has had some emotional upheavals to deal with as well. Besides the well-documented accident involving In Gee Chun -- which Chun says the two have largely dealt with -- there was criticism from the Korean press and fans over the Beyonce dance celebration at the HSBC Women's Champions, which they thought came too soon after the accident. That caused her more distress than we here in the US realized.

As I stated, this isn't always the primary time we've got seen own family reasons have an effect on a player's excursion selections. Jiyai Shinn involves thoughts, having left the LPGA to spend more time at home in South Korea. Both Annika and Lorena left the LPGA to start households. Several of the PGA Tour players have taken or are taking time without work from their tour to cope with own family problems whilst, in years beyond, they may have attempted to hold at least a few type of schedule.

Like Jang, increasingly gamers are finding that the urge to be Number One -- whatever that occurs to intend for that participant -- truely is not as gratifying as they concept it'd be. And perhaps the expanded prize cash has made that form of choice less difficult to make. Add in the in no way-an-off-season grind of expert golf, and it's now not so surprising that gamers are making these selections.

Hopefully HaNa Jang's choice will convey her the peace she's seeking out. And perhaps we're going to get fortunate -- maybe she'll discover that she will still play some LPGA events in the end.