Juhyung Kim, Finally Making His First Appearance

Start of 2025 Season at Hawaii Sony Open
Hero World Challenge and Grant Thornton Warm-up
Kim Si-woo, An Byeong-hun, Lee Kyung-hoon Also Challenge for Victory

Kim Joo-hyung will appear in Hawaii.

Kim Juhyung

From the 9th (local time) for four days, he will participate in the Sony Open, the second tournament of the 2025 PGA Tour season, held at the Waialae Country Club (par 70, 7,044 yards) in Honolulu, Hawaii. This is his first PGA Tour appearance of the year. Only 59 players participated in last week's season opener, The Sentry (total prize money $20 million), but this time 144 players will compete in the first full-field tournament of the new year. A cut will be made after the second round. The winner will receive a prize of $1,566,000 (approximately 2.27 billion KRW).

Since winning his third PGA Tour title at the 2023 Shriners Children's Open in October, Kim Joo-hyung has not won again. Last month, he finished second at the Hero World Challenge, a special event hosted by golf legend Tiger Woods (USA), and on the 15th of last month, he paired with Gino Titikun (Thailand) to finish runner-up at the mixed event Grant Thornton Invitational, showing an upward trend.

In addition to Kim Joo-hyung, three other Koreans will compete. Kim Si-woo and An Byeong-hun, who participated in The Sentry, will also play. Both players have been strong in this tournament. Kim Si-woo won the title in 2023, and An Byeong-hun finished runner-up last year after an extended playoff with Grayson Murray (USA). Lee Kyoung-hoon will start the 2025 season at the Sony Open. Im Sung-jae, who performed well with a third-place finish at The Sentry, will rest. Matsuyama Hideki (Japan), the winner of The Sentry, aims for back-to-back victories. He was also the winner of this tournament in 2022.

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