In Gee Chun's U.S. Women's Open in 2015 may have come as a surprise to casual golf fans, but the now 31-year-old South Korean has a great resume with three-career major championship wins.
Chun is just the fourth player ever to win the U.S. Women's Open in her first try, but you might not know too much about her. It might be odd to know, then, that Chun's nickname is "Dumbo." That's not something lost in translation, but rather a nickname given to her by her coach, Won Park.
"She's got elephant ears," said caddie Dean Herden to ESPN. "If somebody is opening a bottle 20 yards away, she'll hear it. You noticed she backed off a lot today."
Chun, whose fan club is called "The Flying Dumbos," actually has a Dumbo logo/outline on her bag, and she really was happy when fans shouted out the nickname at her at Lancaster Country Club.
"Everyone calls me Dumbo," said Chun after her one-shot win over Amy Yang back in 2015. "When I came over here, some American fans recognized the nickname and called me Dumbo. Some even shouted it, 'Let's go, Dumbo.' That has really made me enjoy the game."
Since then, Chun has gone on to win the 2016 Evian Championship in France and the 2022 KPMG Women's PGA Championship at Congressional Country Club in Maryland.
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