Si Woo Kim knows, just as Sang-Moon Bae knew, just as all the South Koreans know when they come to play the US PGA Tour, their careers are not going to go uninterrupted.
Last week, Vijay Singh crept into contention at the Players Championship – the US PGA Tour’s flagship event – before fading on the weekend. His legal battle with the tour, however, appears to just be heating up.
The secret to Si Woo Kim’s success, beyond a wiser-than-his-years head on his shoulders? A swing that doesn’t produce very much curve – even on his worst shots.
The financial meanderings of the golf business won’t ever be confused with the excitement of a Players Championship, but when one of golf’s leading companies changes hands, it reverberates in its own special way like a eagle-birdie-birdie finish at TPC Sawgrass.
It’s easy to scoff when a slumping touring pro proclaims, “I’m close.” Tiger Woods wore the line out in good and bad times. But the case of Si Woo Kim makes it clear that being among the best players in the world means never really being that far away from something special.
Australian Golf Digest
