Women's Golf
Yoo, Erynne
Erynne Yoo
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Alma Mater:
- UCLA, '15
- Year at UCLA:
- 3rd in 2025-26
- Email:
- eyoo@athletics.ucla.edu
Erynne Yoo enters her third season as an assistant coach with the UCLA women’s golf team in 2025-26. Yoo, a former Bruin All-American, rejoined the UCLA program in June 2023 to work alongside her former coach Alicia Um Holmes.
Yoo and Um Holmes have continued UCLA’s strong history of success with a pair of NCAA Championship appearances and five team victories over their first two seasons together as a coaching staff. Most recently in 2024-25, UCLA advanced to its 35th NCAA Championships after completing an unlikely postseason run. The Bruins exacted a seventh-place finish to qualify for the NCAA Tournament with a .500 winning percentage (65-64-1). A solid first two rounds at the NCAA Charlottesville Regional gave the Bruins a healthy 10-stroke buffer above the cut line to propel them to nationals. The Bruins secured key finishes earlier in their spring schedule that were essential in keeping postseason hopes alive. UCLA clinched its only win of the season at the Bruin Wave Invitational in February and, one month later, finished fourth at the highly-competitive PING/ASU Invitational.
In her two seasons leading the program, Yoo has coached a pair WGCA All-America honorees with First Team selection Zoe Antoinette Campos and honorable mention recipient Caroline Canales. Campos was also named one of 10 finalists for college golf’s top honor, the ANNIKA Award, in 2023-24. Two Bruins – Campos and Francesca Fiorellini – have earned all-conference recognition with Yoo on staff.
Yoo and Um Holmes completed a remarkable first season in 2023-24, resulting in a runner-up finish at the NCAA Championships, four team stroke play wins and numerous individual accolades and records.
UCLA was victorious in Yoo’s second tournament as assistant coach at the Windy City Collegiate Classic where the Bruins ousted nine top-25 teams with a score of -32, 832 to tie the lowest 54-hole mark in program history. UCLA had a stretch of three consecutive wins to begin the spring at The Match in the Desert, the Nanea Pac-12 Preview and The Show. The four wins were the most for the program since the 2017-18 season. UCLA also secured its second straight Battle for the Bell title over crosstown rival USC in the fall with a convincing 4-1 victory. The Bruins’ memorable postseason run began by making the eight-team cut line for match play at the NCAA Championships. UCLA toppled Texas A&M in the Quarterfinals, 3-0-2, and Oregon in the Semifinals, 3-1-1, before falling to top-seeded Stanford in the Finals, 3-2. The result marked the fifth runner-up finish in program history.
Six of Yoo’s eight golfers recorded multiple top-10 individual finishes in 2023-24. The Bruins’ top performer was Campos, a consensus First Team All-American and ANNIKA Award Finalist, who led the team in scoring average (70.7), wins (4), top 10s (9), top 20s (10), rounds under par (21) and counting round percentage (32/32) for a second straight season. Campos’ four medals were tied for the most in UCLA single-season history and her 21 rounds under par set a program single-season record. Canales was also awarded WGCA Honorable Mention All-America acclaim for the first time in her career. Canales put on a dominant show in the match play portion of the NCAA Championships with a perfect 3-0-0 record. On the Pac-12 awards circuit, Campos was named to the First Team while three Bruins were recognized as Honorable Mention: Canales, Meghan Royal and Kate Villegas.
Yoo returned to Westwood after 1.5 seasons as the assistant at Princeton University. The Tigers posted three top 3 finishes in 2022-23 and recorded their best performance of the season at the Columbia Classic where they placed second out of 14 teams. One of Yoo’s golfers, Victoria Liu, qualified for NCAA Regionals.
Yoo was coached by Um Holmes and UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer Carrie Forsyth during her collegiate playing career from 2011-15. As a Bruin, Yoo was a three-time WGCA All-American, earning first-team recognition in 2012 and 2013, was an All-Pac-12 First Team honoree in 2013 and was both the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and NGCA Freshman of the Year in 2012.
UCLA qualified for the NCAA Championship all four years with Yoo in the program, finishing in the top 10 three times with a high finish of third during her junior year. Yoo helped UCLA to an outright NCAA Regional team title in 2014 and a share of the title with an individual top-20 finish as a true freshman in 2012. She finished her collegiate playing career with four medals with one in each season.
Yoo competed in 26 LPGA events during her professional career. At the 2018 Bank of Hope Founders Cup at the Wildfire Golf Club in Phoenix, Ariz., Yoo tied for seventh, marking her top finish to date on the LPGA circuit. On the Symetra Tour, Yoo has competed in 73 events, turning in 10 top-10 finishes, including wins at the FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship and the Donald Ross Centennial, both in 2017, and the 2016 IOA Championship.
In international competition, Yoo was a member of the U.S. team at the 2014 Curtis Cup, was the stroke-play medalist while playing for the U.S. team at the 2013 Copa de las Americas, was part of the U.S. team at the 2012 Women's World Amateur Championship and was part of the U.S. team for the 2008 Junior Ryder Cup.
Prior to earning her degree in psychology at UCLA in 2015, the Silverdale, Wash., native and alumna of Central Kitsap High School was a two-time U.S. Women's Open qualifier in 2008 and 2011, was a five-time AJGA All-American and was twice named the Pacific Northwest Golf Association and Washington State Golf Association's Girls Player of the Year.
Erynne (Lee) Yoo Player Bio
Yoo and Um Holmes have continued UCLA’s strong history of success with a pair of NCAA Championship appearances and five team victories over their first two seasons together as a coaching staff. Most recently in 2024-25, UCLA advanced to its 35th NCAA Championships after completing an unlikely postseason run. The Bruins exacted a seventh-place finish to qualify for the NCAA Tournament with a .500 winning percentage (65-64-1). A solid first two rounds at the NCAA Charlottesville Regional gave the Bruins a healthy 10-stroke buffer above the cut line to propel them to nationals. The Bruins secured key finishes earlier in their spring schedule that were essential in keeping postseason hopes alive. UCLA clinched its only win of the season at the Bruin Wave Invitational in February and, one month later, finished fourth at the highly-competitive PING/ASU Invitational.
In her two seasons leading the program, Yoo has coached a pair WGCA All-America honorees with First Team selection Zoe Antoinette Campos and honorable mention recipient Caroline Canales. Campos was also named one of 10 finalists for college golf’s top honor, the ANNIKA Award, in 2023-24. Two Bruins – Campos and Francesca Fiorellini – have earned all-conference recognition with Yoo on staff.
Yoo and Um Holmes completed a remarkable first season in 2023-24, resulting in a runner-up finish at the NCAA Championships, four team stroke play wins and numerous individual accolades and records.
UCLA was victorious in Yoo’s second tournament as assistant coach at the Windy City Collegiate Classic where the Bruins ousted nine top-25 teams with a score of -32, 832 to tie the lowest 54-hole mark in program history. UCLA had a stretch of three consecutive wins to begin the spring at The Match in the Desert, the Nanea Pac-12 Preview and The Show. The four wins were the most for the program since the 2017-18 season. UCLA also secured its second straight Battle for the Bell title over crosstown rival USC in the fall with a convincing 4-1 victory. The Bruins’ memorable postseason run began by making the eight-team cut line for match play at the NCAA Championships. UCLA toppled Texas A&M in the Quarterfinals, 3-0-2, and Oregon in the Semifinals, 3-1-1, before falling to top-seeded Stanford in the Finals, 3-2. The result marked the fifth runner-up finish in program history.
Six of Yoo’s eight golfers recorded multiple top-10 individual finishes in 2023-24. The Bruins’ top performer was Campos, a consensus First Team All-American and ANNIKA Award Finalist, who led the team in scoring average (70.7), wins (4), top 10s (9), top 20s (10), rounds under par (21) and counting round percentage (32/32) for a second straight season. Campos’ four medals were tied for the most in UCLA single-season history and her 21 rounds under par set a program single-season record. Canales was also awarded WGCA Honorable Mention All-America acclaim for the first time in her career. Canales put on a dominant show in the match play portion of the NCAA Championships with a perfect 3-0-0 record. On the Pac-12 awards circuit, Campos was named to the First Team while three Bruins were recognized as Honorable Mention: Canales, Meghan Royal and Kate Villegas.
Yoo returned to Westwood after 1.5 seasons as the assistant at Princeton University. The Tigers posted three top 3 finishes in 2022-23 and recorded their best performance of the season at the Columbia Classic where they placed second out of 14 teams. One of Yoo’s golfers, Victoria Liu, qualified for NCAA Regionals.
Yoo was coached by Um Holmes and UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer Carrie Forsyth during her collegiate playing career from 2011-15. As a Bruin, Yoo was a three-time WGCA All-American, earning first-team recognition in 2012 and 2013, was an All-Pac-12 First Team honoree in 2013 and was both the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and NGCA Freshman of the Year in 2012.
UCLA qualified for the NCAA Championship all four years with Yoo in the program, finishing in the top 10 three times with a high finish of third during her junior year. Yoo helped UCLA to an outright NCAA Regional team title in 2014 and a share of the title with an individual top-20 finish as a true freshman in 2012. She finished her collegiate playing career with four medals with one in each season.
Yoo competed in 26 LPGA events during her professional career. At the 2018 Bank of Hope Founders Cup at the Wildfire Golf Club in Phoenix, Ariz., Yoo tied for seventh, marking her top finish to date on the LPGA circuit. On the Symetra Tour, Yoo has competed in 73 events, turning in 10 top-10 finishes, including wins at the FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship and the Donald Ross Centennial, both in 2017, and the 2016 IOA Championship.
In international competition, Yoo was a member of the U.S. team at the 2014 Curtis Cup, was the stroke-play medalist while playing for the U.S. team at the 2013 Copa de las Americas, was part of the U.S. team at the 2012 Women's World Amateur Championship and was part of the U.S. team for the 2008 Junior Ryder Cup.
Prior to earning her degree in psychology at UCLA in 2015, the Silverdale, Wash., native and alumna of Central Kitsap High School was a two-time U.S. Women's Open qualifier in 2008 and 2011, was a five-time AJGA All-American and was twice named the Pacific Northwest Golf Association and Washington State Golf Association's Girls Player of the Year.
Erynne (Lee) Yoo Player Bio
UCLA Women's Golf NCAA Championship Recap
Tuesday, May 28
Post Round Press Conference – Francesca Fiorellini (April 3, 2024)
Wednesday, April 03
Media Availability – Zoe Antoinette Campos (April 2, 2024)
Tuesday, April 02
Zoe Antoinette Campos Previews Major Appearance at the U.S. Women's Open at Pebble Beach
Tuesday, June 27
