'Korean Tank' Choi Kyung-ju became the first Korean to win the American Professional Golf Championship Tournament.
Kyung-Joo Choi hit a 4-under 68 with 5 birdies and 1 bogey in the third round on the final day of the PGA Champions Tour Pure Insurance Championship held at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Monterey, California, USA.
Kyung-ju Choi, who took the top spot with a final total of 13-under 203, beating the tied 2nd place players by two strokes, became the first Korean to win the PGA Champions Tour stage, where players 50 and older compete.
The prize money for winning is 330,000 dollars (about 380 million won).
Kyung-Ju Choi won the Compaq Classic in May 2002 and became the first Korean to become the PGA regular tour champion.
Last week at Sanford International, after a close overtime match, I was relieved of being runner-up, and I was coolly brushed off by climbing to the top of the championship in a week.
Choi Kyung-ju, who won the official tournament after about 9 years since the CJ Invitational on the Korea Professional Golf (KPGA) Korean Tour, which he hosted as the host in October 2012, will participate in the KPGA Korean Tour Hyundai Kyeong-ju Choi Invitational, which will open in Yeoju, Gyeonggi-do on the 30th. returning home for
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