Im Sung-jae performs a shot on the seventh gap throughout the last spherical of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Membership, Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 1. AFP-Yonhap
Im Sung-jae recorded a top-10 end on the last PGA Tour playoff occasion with a powerful last spherical in Atlanta.
Im completed seventh on the Tour Championship at 18-under 269, following a last spherical of 64 at East Lake Golf Membership within the Georgian state capital on Sunday (native time).
Im had six birdies, one eagle and one bogey to finish up 12 strokes behind the champion, Scottie Scheffler of the US. Im’s 64 was tied for the second-lowest rating of the ultimate spherical, behind solely Russell Henley’s 62.
This was Im’s eighth top-10 efficiency in 25 tournaments this season, and 4 of these have come over his final eight begins.
Im was one among two Koreans, alongside An Byeong-hun, to qualify for the Tour Championship, open solely to the highest 30 gamers in FedEx Cup factors after two playoff occasions.
An tied for twenty first place at eight-under. He shot a two-under 69 within the last spherical.
Underneath the “beginning strokes” system distinctive to the Tour Championship, Im, who was eleventh within the FedEx Cup standings earlier than the Tour Championship, started the event at three-under. An, at sixteenth in FedEx Cup factors, began at two-under.
Scheffler, FedEx Cup factors chief, started the Tour Championship at 10-under.
The built-in deficit proved an excessive amount of to beat for Im, whose career-best displaying at a Tour Championship stays a runner-up end in 2022.
The PGA Tour will wrap up the season with eight “FedEx Cup Fall” tournaments. Beginning Sept. 26, Im, An and one other Korean, Tom Kim, will compete on the Presidents Cup for the Worldwide Staff, a squad made up of non-European, non-American gamers, up towards the mighty United States. (Yonhap)
