Justin Thomas Applaudie while holding the trophy immediately after winning the PGA championship. Tulsa, USA = Getty Images / Multibits
(Asia Economy Golf Specialist Reporter Kim Hyun-Jun) ○… “World Ranking 9th → 5th.”
The “major champion” Justin Thomas jumped directly in the “Top 5” by earning 7.30 points in the official world classification of golf announced in the afternoon of the 23rd (Korean hour). He accumulated points by winning the second major of this PGA Tour season, the PGA championship (total price of $ 15 million), which ended that morning at the Southern Hills Golf Club (by 70, 7,365 yards) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. This marks his 15th career victory, his first in 1 year and 2 months since the “players’ championship”, known as “5th major”, in March of last year, with a winning price of 2.7 million dollars (34.37 billion KRW).
Although there is a gap with Scottie Scheffler n ° 1 (United States, 9.66 points), it is only 0.66 points behind Jon Rahm n ° 2 (Spain, 7.96 points), which makes it strong for the place “ `number 2 ”. Cameron Smith (Australia, 7.43 points) ranks 3rd, followed by Collin Morikawa (7.34 points) in 4th. The 27 -year -old recruit, Mito Pereira (Chile), climbed 71 places from 100th to 49th. On the 18th last 18th hole (by 4), where he directed a blow, he struck his starting stroke in the water and made a double Bogey, ending equally to the 3rd, losing the great victory he had almost.
The Korea positions are: “ Shriners champion ” Im Sung-Jae (24) in the 22nd, Lee Kyoung-Hoon (31 years old), which successfully defended its title AT&T byron Nelson on the 16th, 43rd, Kim Si-Woo (27) at 59th, and “ Asian Tour Money ” Kim Hyung (20, all CJ Logistics) at 73rd. The Tiger Woods (USA) “Emperor de Golf returned” slipped to the 841st. After a long rehabilitation process after a car accident in February of last year, he called on Spotlight finishing 47th at the Masters last month, but he retired after the 3rd round of this PGA championship, which raises concerns.
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