Kang Sung-hoon (34) reconciled with Joel Daman (USA), who accused him of being a fraudster three years ago.
Kang Sung-Hoon and Daman played together in the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Tour held at Pebble Beach Golf Links (par 72), California, USA on the 15th (Korean time).
Daman was the one who accused Sung-hoon Kang of intentionally violating the rules of golf when he played with Sung-hoon Kang in the final round of the 2018 PGA Tour Quiken Loans National.
At the time, Kang Seong-hoon said that the ball fell into the water hazard and fell across the mound, and dropped there, but Daman insisted that it was the wrong drop position because the ball fell straight into the water hazard.
The competition committee member raised Kang Seong-hoon’s hand, but Daman did not take his argument and accused him of being a’fraud’ on social network service (SNS).
Damon, who met Sung-Hoon Kang in three years, posted a short story on social media that the third round was over and that he and Sung-Hoon Kang and the fourth would be played together.
It was interpreted as containing concerns that it would be an awkward meeting.
However, the awkward atmosphere at the 10th hole tee box, where the two started round 4, quickly disappeared.
Kang Seong-hoon released Daman’s frozen heart with a friendly attitude.
Kang Seong-hoon threw a joke with a laugh, “My friend told me to push it down the cliff when he met you.”
Daman replied with a smile to Sung-hoon Kang’s joke.
The Golf Channel said that Seong-Hoon Kang had met separately a month after he played the Quiken Loans National, but at that time there were words with thorns.
At the time, Daman said on the podcast radio last May that when Sung-hoon Kang came and apologized, “Why do you apologize to me? Apologize to all the players who participated in the tournament”.
Kang Seong-hoon and Daman, who haven’t mixed words since then, washed away some of the bad feelings that were three years old at Pebble Beach.
Daman finished the tournament with a tie for 60th place (1 over par 289), one stroke ahead of Kang Seong-hoon, who hit an even par 72 on this day, with 73 fewer.
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