Field Level Media
27 Sep 2021, 11:40 GMT+10
K.J. Choi became the first South Korean to win on the PGA Tour Champions when he notched a two-stroke victory Sunday at the PURE Insurance Championship in Pebble Beach, Calif.
Choi, 51, entered Sunday leading by two shots. With a final-round, 4-under 68, he finished at a 13-under 203 and kept his distance over Germans Bernhard Langer and Alex Cejka, who also carded rounds of 68.
It was Choi's first professional victory of any kind since 2012, when he prevailed at the CJ Invitational on the Asian Tour. The 2011 Players Championship was the last of his eight PGA Tour victories.
"You know, any winning is very special," Choi said. "Anybody strong in the mind could play (the Champions Tour). ... And the mindset, many good players here. So I am enjoying Champions and so happy."
The tournament was spread between Pebble Beach Golf Resort and Spyglass Hill Golf Course. Golfers played each course once over the first two days, and after a 36-hole cut, the remaining players all played Pebble Beach on Sunday.
Choi made all five of his birdies on the front nine to bound ahead, but went just 1 over on his back nine. It was still enough of a cushion to hold off Langer, who birdied three of his final five holes for a late run.
Langer will take the No. 1 spot in the Charles Schwab Cup standings following his T2 finish.
"It's fun to be in contention for the Schwab Cup once more," Langer said. "That's what really everybody wants to be at here, I think. And especially we didn't have one last year. If we had, I would have won that one maybe."
Scott Dunlap's 6-under 66 was the low round of the day and lifted him to a fourth-place finish at 10 under. Paul Stankowski (68) and New Zealand's Steven Alker (67) tied for fifth at 9 under.
--Field Level Media
Get a daily dose of Malaysia Sun news through our daily email, its complimentary and keeps you fully up to date with world and business news as well.
Publish news of your business, community or sports group, personnel appointments, major event and more by submitting a news release to Malaysia Sun.
More InformationDHAKA, Bangladesh - Tarique Rahman's support for Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib's killers has been criticized by Sheikh Hasina. The murderers of ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Given the country's ongoing economic crisis and acute fuel shortage, the Pakistan government is considering purchasing oil ...
ASSAM, India: During this week's heavy rains, which caused the region's worst floods in years, staff at the Cachar Cancer ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal - According to human rights activists, if people choose sex work as a profession voluntarily, the state should ...
KAREN STATE, Myanmar - Over the past three days, an army outpost meters away from Myanmar's border with Thailand has ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh- The Japanese government is lending Bangladesh $ 1.4 billion (Tk11,400 crore) to construct a subway in Dhaka. Both ...
WASHINGTON D.C.: Due to surging food prices, summer cookouts for the U.S. Independence Day holiday are more expensive, forcing Americans ...
WASHINGTON D.C.: In a cardboard box factory outside Baltimore, people have been walking into the office of Paul Centenari, chief ...
DELFT, Netherlands: IKEA officials said this week that the furniture retailer's warehouses in Europe are as full as they were ...
NEW YORK CITY, New York: After the first six months of 2022, the S&P 500 recorded a loss of 20.6 ...
WASHINGTON D.C.: Due to the record high trade deficit and a resurgence in COVID-19 infections that curbed spending on services, ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan: The world's fourth largest chip designer by revenue, Taiwan's MediaTek, has told Reuters that it plans to create ...