At 23, Thai Sadom Kaewkanjana won the SMBC Singapore, the last tournament of the 2020-21-22 Asian Tour season, with a total score of -13. This success, the second of his young career, allows him to win one of the four spots at stake for the next British Open next summer in St Andrews (Scotland). He will be accompanied by the Japanese Yato Katsuragawa, the South Korean Joohyung Kim (n°1 of the Order of Merit at 19) and the American Sihwan Kim.
The rising star of Thai golf (five titles on the national circuits in 2021, including the National Open) confirms at the highest level. Second ex-aequo of Blue Canyon Phuket Championship end of November then fifth (ex-aequo again) of the Laguna Phuket Championship early December, Sadom Kaewkanjana won this Sunday in Singapore with a total score of -13, three strokes ahead of the Japanese Yato Katsuragawa and South Korean Joohyung Kim.
Congratulations Sadom Kaewkanjana, Yuto Katsuragawa, Joohyung Kim, and Sihwan Kim after qualifying for The Open via today’s SMBC Singapore Open! St Andrews here we come!@SingOpenGolf @TheOpen #SingOpen #whereitsAT pic.twitter.com/YbTy3AFCv5
— Asian Tour (@asiantourgolf) January 23, 2022
This is his second victory over theAsian Tour after the Bangabandhu Cup Golf Open in 2019, the year he made his appearance on the Asian circuit thanks to the Membership Cards. Happiness never comes alone, the 23-year-old Thai validates his ticket for the 150th British Open in history which will take place next July in St Andrews.
He will be accompanied by Yato Katsuragawa, Joohyung Kim and the American Sihwan Kim, only fourth of this SMBC Singapore Open. Note that the English Paul Casey, big favorite for victory, took sixteenth place at -3.
Congratulations to Joohyung Kim on lifting the 2020/21 Order of Merit crown! The 19-year-old topped the final Merit rankings following his joint second-place finish at the SMBC Singapore Open.????????????@SingOpenGolf @joohyungkim0621 #SingOpen #whereitsAT pic.twitter.com/mZknigCY85
— Asian Tour (@asiantourgolf) January 23, 2022
The other big winner this Sunday in Singapore is called Joohyung Kim. In addition to playing the next The Open in Scotland, the young man, only 19, finished #1 Asian Tour Order of Merit. Of the eight tournaments of the extended season of the Asian Tour, severely disrupted by the pandemic, the South Korean has won once (Singapore International on January 13), twice finished second, twice fourth and once seventh. , missing just one cut (released in Malaysia on March 5, 2020). He is ahead of the Thai Sadom Kaewkanjana and the Australian Wade Ormsby, which also evolves on the DP World Tour.
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