Slow and Expensive Sei Young Kim Wins Women’S P.G.A
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OUR 1648 TH ISSUE Vol. 32, No. 36 R O C H E S T E R Monday, October 12, 2020 Slow and Expensive Sei Young Kim Wins Women’s P.G.A. BY DAVID LORENTZ only tracked these sentiments, In a recent article about pan- but have long been curious to Championship, Her First Major Title demic winners and losers, New understand their origins and im- York Magazine described golf — pacts. NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — one of its winners — as “slow and Perceptions as you know are Sei Young Kim shot a sensation- expensive.” formed based on relatives. Golf al seven-under 63 on Sunday to These are just two of the is “slow” because most sports earn her first major title at the game’s unflattering perceptions require running and jumping and Women’s P.G.A. Champion- (there’s also “difficult” and “ex- other lively exertion. It’s “expen- ship. clusionary”), and are used by sive” because most of the recre- Kim, a 27-year-old South Ko- non-golfing/non-endemic jour- ational equipment in your garage rean, finished at 14-under 266 nalists almost as a matter of can be used for free at any time at Aronimink Golf Course. She course. Whether a function of (and just about anywhere). In a entered the tournament with 10 bad experiences, skewed expo- way, that’s what makes golf “ex- L.P.G.A. Tour wins, the most sures or innate human ‘negativ- clusionary” too — since there are among active players without a ity bias,’ the reputation of golf certain places that many of us major championship. among those who don’t play has can’t play, as they’re prohibitive Her 63 was the best round of leaned unfavorably for years. As in cost or access or both. the tournament. She finished five industry researchers we’ve not Slow and Expensive — PAGE 4 shots ahead of the runner-up, Sei Young Kim of South Korea finished strong to win the Women’s P.G.A. Inbee Park, who shot 65 on Championship. Her 63 was the best round of the tournament. (Matt Slocum/ Sunday. Associated Press) “Sei Young was just really un- Gambler Turns One Dollar touchable,” Park said. onship in 2018. She held the 54- on Sunday with a round to re- Kim, a 2016 Olympian, was hole lead at a major once, at the member. Her fifth birdie of the runner-up at the 2015 Women’s 2015 ANA Inspiration, where day, at the par-3 14th, gave Into an Absolute FORTUNE P.G.A. Championship and tied she finished in a tie for fourth. her a four-shot lead over Park With Incredible Golf Parlay for second at the Evian Champi- She sealed the championship First Major — PAGE 5 BY ALEX MYERS bettor parlayed 20 different We've seen some incredible head-to-head matchups for the golf bets hit in recent years, tournament. And wouldn't you Martin Laird Beats Wolff, Cook in prompting us to dub multiple wa- belive it, but he got every single gers as the best ever. But forget one right. Shriners Playoff for First Win Since ’13 about all of those, because this As a result, his $1 bet turned is actually it. THIS is the greatest into a $679,894.66 windfall, BY WILL GRAY golf bet in history. according to SportsBet. Yep, Ten years after losing on the Why do we say that? Because that's ONE dollar turning into same hole to an overtime hole- one mystery person amassed nearly 700 GRAND. My. Word. in-one, Martin Laird exacted a small fortune betting on the The winner of the tournament, some revenge on the 17th hole European Tour's BMW PGA Tyrrell Hatton, only earned at TPC Summerlin while break- Championship for the price of about $400,000 more for win- ing a seven-year victory drought a cup of coffee at McDonald's. ning the European Tour's flag- at the Shriners Hospitals for Instead of merely betting on ship event. And his tournament Children Open. the winner, this brilliant/lucky Gambler — PAGE 3 Laird was a bystander during a 2010 playoff in Las Vegas when Jonathan Byrd ended the tour- nament with a memorable walk- Purse Payout for the KPMG off ace. But back on the same green it was the Scot this time in Women’s PGA: Sei Young the spotlight, as Laird rebound- the second extra hole to beat Laird, his second at this event ed from a 72nd-hole bogey by Matthew Wolff and Austin Cook. (2009) and his first since the Kim Earns Over $600K draining a lengthy birdie putt on It’s the fourth career victory for Laird — PAGE 2 BY MERCER BAGGS Here’s a look at how the NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — purse was paid out for Kim Sei Young Kim won the KPMG and the rest of the players who The Debrief: 2020 BMW PGA Championship Women’s PGA Championship made the cut at Aronimink Tyrrell Hatton’s dream came his father when he was five years ticked off another career goal as for her first major title. Golf Club. true while Tommy Fleetwood old. The Englishman, who grew the victory took him into the top and Graeme McDowell had up not far from Wentworth, also BMW — PAGE 6 Finish Player Score Earnings ($) other dreams on their mind at 1 Sei Young Kim -14 $645,000 the 2020 BMW PGA Champi- onship. 2 Inbee Park -9 $388,569 Here, we take a look at the T3 Nasa Hataoka -7 $249,967 highlights from a thrilling week T3 Carlota Ciganda -7 $249,967 at Wentworth Golf Club. 5 Anna Nordqvist -4 $175,511 6 Brooke M. Henderson -3 $143,599 Home Hero Hatton T7 Charley Hull -1 $112,752 Achieves Boyhood Dream There is really only one place T7 Jennifer Kupcho -1 $112,752 to start this week’s debrief... Hat- T9 Lauren Stephenson E $83,765 ton’s dream came true on Sun- T9 Brittany Lincicome E $83,765 day as he won the tournament Payout — PAGE 3 he had attended as a fan with See Local Holes-In-One at golfweekrochester.com Page 02 • Rochester GOLF WEEK • Friday,Monday, Date, October Year 12, 2020 Opportunity Knocked and Delivered For Club Professionals At 2020 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship For the eight PGA/LPGA Club eight who qualified last August ProfessionalsAdvertiser • Size in • Datethe •field Designer for the via the 2019 LPGA Professionals Fax/Email: @ 2020 KPMG Women’s PGA National Championship, it did not Championship,Expositor-Ledger the journeyNewspapers to spoil their experience or tarnish Aronimink Golf Club and the their lofty status as Club Profes- opportunityRochester to measure Golf their Week in- sionals • The to play Jewishin an LPGA LedgerMajor 2535 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, NY 14623 dividual games against the world’s Championship. best(585) players 427-2468 was the • FAX real (585)reward. 427-8521Eiswerth of Fleming Island, Jennifer Borocz, PGA; Ellen Florida, finished as the Low Club Ceresko,IMPORTANT… LPGA; Joanna Coe, Professional We want at YOURAronimink, AD to but be perfect… PGA;Your Dr.ad Alisonwill run Curdt, as itPGA/ appearsher two-dayhere unless total ofwe 149 hear was from you immediately. 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