PGA Tour Sony Open Final
Exhilarating reverse electrode… V March for 4 consecutive years
“Experience and confidence are the driving force for a total of 5 wins”
Not long ago, the qualifier was added to the name of Kevin Na (38), a Korean-American,’a player who has no relationship with the championship’. He entered the American Professional Golf (PGA) Tour in 2004 and waited 7 years for his first championship in October 2011. The second victory, the July 2018 Miller Tribute, took almost 7 years again. But starting with that, Kevin I raised the trophy for the fourth consecutive year. He had to knock on the door of 369 competitions in order to win 2 wins, but 55 competitions were enough before he added 3 wins.
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Kevin I cited experience and confidence as the reason why the’winning watch’ was faster. On the 18th (Korean time), after reaching the top of the Sony Open (total prize money of $6.6 million), he said, “If you win, the next win seems to be a little easier.” “It’s not that winning is easy, but the confidence created by winning a big role “I do.”
Kevin Naga was reborn as a’constantly winning player’ with 5 wins in his career. In the fourth round of the tournament held at Waialay CC (par 70) in Honolulu, Hawaii, he recorded 5 under par 65 strokes (total 21 under par 259 strokes), winning the thrilling reversal of the first stroke. Among the active players, the players who have continued to win more than four seasons include Dustin Johnson (USA), Yon Lam (Spain), Justin Thomas, and Kevin Me in 7th long hitter Bryson Dishambo (USA). There are only five. Having won his first top 10 prize in the 2020-2021 season, he has soared to 10th in the FedEx Cup ranking, and the world ranking has jumped from 38th to 23rd. The winning prize is $1,188,000 (approximately 1.311 billion won).
Kevin I, who started the game with a tie for second place by two strokes, was three strokes behind the lead Brendon Steel (USA), who reduced three strokes with one birdie and one Eagle up to the ninth hole. He only cut one stroke down to the 12th hole, and at one time was pushed out of the tie for second place. But, armed with experience and confidence, Kevin I was not shaken. The 13th hole (par 4) 4m buddy was used as the foothold of the reverse electrode. Then, 3 consecutive birdies to the 14th (par 4) 3.5m and 15th hole (par 4) 1.8m putt, they came out as the sole leader. With the 18th hole (par 5) left, Chris Kirk (US) tied for the 20-under-par first and finished the game first, and Kevin Na had the grip of the game. Following the aggressive tee shot, the second shot slightly crossed the green, but a 10m chip shot was placed close to the hole to confirm the victory without overtime.
Winning, which was not easy, could have been missed in the first place. After the game, Kevin revealed that I had a strong shot the day before the start of the competition and felt pain in my ribs and thought of abstaining, and thanked my trainer for taking care of the pain the next day. Shortly after the championship, in a broadcast interview in Korean, he said, “Thank you for your support. I’m glad to win, and I’ll see you in Korea again someday.”
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Steel, who was the leader, ended in a tie for fourth place (19 under par) and cried for two years in a row. Last year, he took the lead by third in the third round, but knelt to Cameron Smith (USA) in the overtime. Joaquin Neiman (Chile), who captured the last hole buddy, tied for second place with Kirk, finishing runner-up in Hawaii for the second consecutive week following a defeat in the Sentry Tournament of Champions overtime. Lee Gyeong-hoon (30) was tied for 19th in the 15-under-par, the highest among Korean players, with a behind-the-scenes cut of six strokes. Kim Si-woo (26) was tied for 14 under par 25, and Lim Seong-jae (23) tied for 9 under par at 56th place, and the 2008 winner Choi Gyeong-ju (51) finished with 5 under par at 71st place.
Kevin, whose Korean name is Sang-wook Na, I was born in Seoul and immigrated to the United States in 1991 when I was a freshman in elementary school to start playing golf. At the age of 12, he stood out by setting the record for the youngest appearance in competitions organized by the American Golf Association (USGA), and in 2001, he was ranked first in the US Junior Rankings. Kevin I said, “I hope to win one more time this year. I want to participate in the Tour Championship (the final match of the season), the Ryder Cup (US vs. Europe) and Presidents Cup (US vs. World Union), which are the continental competitions.”
/ Reporter Park Min-young [email protected]
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