Golf - LPGA KEB Hana Bank Championship - First Round - Incheon, South Korea - 13/10/16. Pak Se-ri of South Korea putts on the eighteenth green. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
SEOUL (Reuters) - It has been 18 years since Pak Se-ri shed socks and shoes and stepped gingerly into the water to play a daring recovery stroke at the 1998 U.S. Women's Open, a shot that both defined her career and helped change the face of women's golf forever.
Pak's victory over American Jenny Chuasiriporn after a 20-hole playoff in Wisconsin would open up the LPGA Tour to an "Asian invasion" and proved to be a stepping stone for women's golf to reach new markets.
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