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Top 30 Players to Watch on the PGA Tour in 2020

2019 Rookie of the Year Award Winner

2020년 PGA 투어에서 주목할 선수 30인
2019년 신인상수상

ung-jae Im, who became the first Asian to win the PGA Tour’s He won two championships and three runner-up finishes on
Srookie award in 2019, is on the list of 30 players to watch by the Korn Ferry Tour in 2018, but failed to win on the PGA Tour
the PGA Tour, and is expected to excel in the 2020 season. this season. The best performance is tied for third at the Arnold
Im has been in the spotlight since his first year of the tour, receiv- Palmer Invitational in March.
ing the Rookie of the Year award, which selects a winner through Winning the PGA Tour’s Rookie of the Year award without a
votes from members who have competed in more than 15 PGA PGA Tour win is his first since Daniel Berger in 2015.
Tour tournaments in the season. He was the only rookie to advance to the Tour Championship,
This year, Im became the first Asian to win the PGA Tour Rookie the final leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs, and also had the most
of the Year award, which was established in 1990. under par at 184 under and 480 birdies in the 2018-2019 season.
Sung-jae Im, who won the Player of the Year and Rookie of the He joined the national team for two years starting in 2014,
Year awards on the Korn Ferry Tour last year, made his PGA Tour turned professional in 2015 and won the 12th KPGA Challenge
debut in the 2018-2019 season and competed in 35 tournaments Tour in October that year, advancing to the first-division tour,
while passing 26 cuts, and 16 of them were within the top 25. the Korean Tour, in 2016.

SUNG-JAE IM

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