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[PGA TOUR]

SUNG KANG'S SON

TREATED

AT NATIONWIDE

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

네이션와이드 아동 병원에서

치료를 받은 강성훈의 아들

By Sung Kang, PGA TOUR winner

ne year ago, our family experienced a terrible
thing. At the same time, we ended up having
Oa wonderful experience. Those two sentences
only make sense because of Nationwide Children’s
Hospital.
In late-May 2019, we were in Ohio so I could play in the
Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide. The
Monday after the tournament, there was a U.S. Open
qualifier at Scioto Country Club and Brookside Golf
and Country Club. I didn’t play well at the Memorial,
missing the cut, and that left me with a couple of days
to get ready for the 36-hole qualifying tournament.
On Monday morning, my wife, Soyoung, took me to the
course, while our son, Eugene stayed at the hotel with ment and left the course, heading straight to Nation-
his grandmother, my mother-in-law. At the golf course, wide Children’s Hospital. There, doctors told us Eu-
I received a phone call from my wife who was telling gene had suffered a concussion and a fracture on his
me that our son had fallen off the bed and was hurt. I temporal bone that was causing spinal fluid to leak. It
really didn’t think it was anything too serious. But when was a really dangerous situation. Doctors believe that
Soyoung told me they had gone to the hospital in an when Eugene was falling off the bed, he landed at an
ambulance, I immediately withdrew from the tourna- odd angle, hitting right on the spot that caused all the

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