Sungjae Im and Si Woo Kim both didn’t medal at the Olympics and thus failed to exempt themselves from South Korea’s mandatory military service requirement.
As if the 2017 golf season wasn’t already filled with a myriad of bizarre rules controversies, there is another dandy to add to the list, one that apparently has cost the job of a top official with the Korean LPGA Tour.
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.