Siwoo Kim "First Win of the New Season GO"... What About Seongjae Im?
PGA Tour 2021/2022 Season Round 3 Shriners Outing, Laird 'Title Defense', Burns on '2 Consecutive Wins March'
Siwoo Kim challenges for his first win of the new season at the Shriners Children's Open.
View original image[Asia Economy Kim Hyun-jun, Golf Specialist Reporter] "Tied 11th → Tied 8th → What’s next?"
Kim Si-woo (26) is once again challenging the ‘early bird’. The Shriners Children’s Open (total prize money $7 million), the third event of the 2021/2022 PGA Tour season, opens on the night of the 7th (Korean time) at Summerlin TPC in Las Vegas, USA (par 71, 7,255 yards). Defending champion Martin Laird (Scotland) aims to defend his title, while Sam Burns (USA), the Sanderson Farms Championship champion, is aiming for ‘back-to-back wins’.
Kim Si-woo has been on the rise recently, finishing tied 11th at the Fortinet Championship on the 19th of last month and tied 8th at the Sanderson Farms Championship on the 4th. Especially at Sanderson Farms, he made a hole-in-one on the 7th hole (par 3) on the final day. Shooting 6 under par in the 1st, 3rd, and 4th rounds, and only 1 under par in the 2nd round was somewhat disappointing. With the CJ Cup, a title sponsor event continuing next week in Las Vegas, he is motivated to fine-tune his winning shot feel.
Im Sung-jae (23) is in a similar position. After successfully qualifying for the Tour Championship, the final third playoff event with only 30 players for two consecutive years, he conserved energy and warmed up with a tied 31st place at Sanderson Farms. It is interesting that experts ranked him 10th among the favorites to win, while Kim Si-woo was ranked 13th. Korea’s ‘CJ squad’ is fully mobilized with Kang Sung-hoon (34) and Lee Kyoung-hoon (30). No Seung-yeol (30) needs a turnaround after missing the cut in the previous two tournaments.
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Locally, the spotlight is on Burns’ ‘push for a second consecutive win’. He is a ‘25-year-old young gun’ who won the 2018 Korn Ferry Tour Savannah Championship and immediately advanced to the PGA Tour in the 2019 season. He earned his first victory at the Valspar Championship last May and secured his second career win on the 4th. Ryder Cup members such as Brooks Koepka (USA), Viktor Hovland (Norway), and Ian Poulter (England) are participating, heating up the atmosphere.
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