20-year-old Kim Joo-hyung leaps to 19th in the world rankings… Im Seong-jae beats Korea’s top ranker
Enter 2022.08.15 (16:08)
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Kim Joo-hyeong (20), born in 2002, overtook Im Seong-jae (24) in the men’s golf world rankings and became the ‘Korean Top Ranker’.
In the world ranking announced on the 15th (Korean time), Kim Joo-hyung was named 19th, up two places from last week.
This is the highest ranking by a Korean player, surpassing Im Seong-jae, who maintained the same 20th place as last week.
Kim Joo-hyung, who was ranked 132 in the world rankings announced for the first time this year, showed off his power to climb over 100 steps in 7 months.
He jumped to 89th place by winning the Asian Tour Singapore International in January, and has steadily improved his ranking by participating in various competitions since then.
In particular, he finished third at the Genesis Scottish Open on the PGA Tour last month and jumped from 61st to 39th in the world ranking.
At the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first round of the PGA Tour playoffs that ended on the same day, he was tied for 13th, and his world rankings also slightly increased, reaching the highest ranking of Korean players.
Kim Joo-hyung made use of his special temporary membership on the PGA Tour, which he obtained last month.
As a special temporary member, he tied 26th at the 3M Open and 7th at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, effectively securing a place on the PGA Tour.
The world rankings 1 to 4 were the same as last week, followed by Scotty Schaeffler (USA), Cameron Smith (Australia), Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland), and Patrick Cantlay (USA) in that order. ) to 6th and moved up to 5th.
FedEx St. Jude Championship winner Will Zalatoris (USA) jumped from 14th to 9th.
Among Asian players, Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) had the highest ranking at 16th.
Kyung-hoon Lee (31) maintained 45th place, and Si-woo Kim (27) moved down one place to 63rd.
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