Korean golf player Jeho-rim (20, USA) was selected as the 14 expected players in 2021 by the Associated Press.
In celebration of the new year in 2021, the Associated Press introduced 14 athletes who are expected to see 2021 across all sports.
In addition to this, Trevor Lawrence (22, USA), who has become a’super star’ in the current American college football, explained that’it has already grown too much to be included in this list’, so a total of 15 people have been announced, including Lawrence. That’s it.
More precisely, this list includes a racehorse called’Essential Quality’, so 14 athletes and one horse were evaluated as prospects in 2021.
The Associated Press explained that slave-rim was “a player who turned professional in January 2019, ahead of attending UCLA,” and said, “We tied for second place in the VOA Classic on the American Women’s Professional Golf (LPGA) Tour last December.”
Slave Rim, whose parents are both Koreans, has not yet won the LPGA Tour, but is expected to take the runner-up twice, finishing second in the Cambia Portland Classic in August 2019.
Slave Rim, who is 175cm tall and has a cool long hit, earned $415,000,307 (about 450 million won) in prize money on last year’s LPGA tour, ranking 25th in the prize money rankings.
On the LPGA tour, where no separate rookie award winner was decided due to the novel coronavirus infection last year (Corona 19), Slave Rim is expected to compete with the 2020 US Open champion Kim A-rim (26) for the new season.
In addition to Lawrence and Slave Rim, the Associated Press reported that Japanese player Sky Brown (13, UK), who is called a “skateboard genius,” as well as Center Ball Ball (22, USA) of Denver Nuggets, American Professional Basketball (NBA), and tennis woman who opened last year in France. Singles winner Iga Cibiontech (20, Poland) and third baseman Kibrian Hayes (24, USA) of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the US professional baseball majors were selected as players to watch in 2021.
Akiyo Noguchi, 32, from Japan’s national sports climbing team was selected as the only Asian national athlete.
The US newspaper USA Today also rated US gymnastics national team Sunisa Lee (18), track and field athlete Noah Lyles (24), and NBA rookie James Weisman (20+ US) as 10 athletes who will stand out in 2021.