"I want to be [the] number one world [golf] player."--Se Ri Pak.

In 1998 golfer Se Ri Pak took the Ladies' Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour by storm. As a rookie she won two of the four major tournaments of women's golf--the LPGA Championship and the U.S. Women's Open. Pak also won two other tournaments to earn rookie of the year honors and become a national hero in her home country of South Korea. Her success in 1998 was an outgrowth of years of intense training Pak underwent at the direction of her father, a man driven to make his daughter the best golfer in the world.

Growing Up

Tough Upbringing

Se Ri Pak was born in 1977 in Daejeon, South Korea. She grew up in the rural town of Taejon, 100 miles south of the capital city of Seoul. Pak was the second of three daughters of her father...