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[PGA TOUR]

NA WINS SONY OPEN IN HAWAII ONOLULU – It was the win that almost

Hdidn’t even get off the ground.
Kevin Na claims fifth win at the Sony Open Kevin Na was nearly forced to withdraw from
the Sony Open in Hawaii for the third straight
year when he felt pain in his ribs on Wednesday.
케빈 나, 하와이에서 소니 오픈 우승
He’d missed the previous two iterations with
소니 오픈에서 투어 5 번째 우승을 획득한 케빈 나 neck and finger injuries after arriving on site.
This time – with the help of his traveling trainer
– the 37-year-old battled on, and by Sunday
afternoon he was tapping home a final hole
birdie to claim his fifth PGA TOUR win.
“On Wednesday morning, warming up in the
pro-am, I hit one hard and I pulled my rib, and
I didn't know what to expect. ... I was like here
we go again,” Na revealed. “My trainer that I just
added to the team, Cornel Driessen, he helped
me out a lot. We worked on it, loosened it, and
the next day I woke up, it felt great and felt like
nothing happened. Had he not been here, I don't
know, it might have been a different story."
It’s been an incredible run for the Korean-
American who has now won in the last four
TOUR seasons, joining Dustin Johnson, Jon

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