Controversy plaguing Ha Na Jang: World

  No. 9 extends break from LPGA

GOLFWEEK.COM

By Beth Ann Nichols

Ha Na Jang waves after a putt during the second round of the LPGA JTBC Founders Cup. (Getty Images)

Ha Na Jang won’t play on the LPGA Tour for at least two more weeks, according to a report in the Yonhap News Agency. Jang’s Seoul-based agency said the World No. 9 will miss this week’s Kingsmill Championship as well as the Volvik Championship in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Jang has been treated for insomnia and anemia since withdrawing from the LPGA’s Swinging Skirts on April 21. A two-time winner on tour this season, Jang has suffered from blurred vision, dizziness and vomiting since mid-March.
That, of course, is around the time the bubbly player became embroiled in controversy after Jang’s father let go of a hard-case piece of luggage on an airport escalator that hit rival In Gee Chun, who was standing below.
Chun was forced to withdraw from several events as a result of the injuries received in the incident. Jang was criticised in South Korea for her elaborate victory celebration in Singapore in the immediate aftermath. 
Chun also took issue with what she felt was an inadequate apology.
Jang told two American reporters at the JTBC Founders Cup that she was in her room crying every day over the whole ordeal.