DP World Tour Rolex Series Tournament Entry
Fox Wins by 1 Stroke with '2 Billion Jackpot'... Ram 4th
Hovland 5th, McIlroy 7th, Lee Min-woo 14th
‘PGA star’ Kim Joo-hyung finished tied for 18th in his European tour.
On the 17th (local time), Kim Joo-hyung recorded 4 birdies, 1 bogey, and 1 triple bogey in the 4th round of the DP World Tour BMW PGA Championship (total prize money $9 million) held at Wentworth Club in Surrey, England (par 72, 7,267 yards), failing to lower his score. He finished the tournament tied for 18th place (10 under par, 278 strokes) alongside Billy Horschel (USA), Matthew Fitzpatrick (England), and Shane Lowry (Ireland).
The event is one of the DP World Tour Rolex Series’ ‘premier tournaments.’ Many world-class players such as Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland), Jon Rahm (Spain), and Viktor Hovland (Norway) participated. Ryan Fox (New Zealand) surged with a 5-under-par round to claim victory by one stroke (18 under par, 270 strokes). The winner’s prize money was €1,435,857 (approximately 2.03 billion KRW).
Tyrrell Hatton and Aaron Rai (both England) tied for 2nd place (17 under par, 271 strokes), and Rahm took 4th place (16 under par, 272 strokes). This year’s PGA Tour FedEx Cup champion Hovland finished 5th (15 under par, 273 strokes), McIlroy and Adam Scott (Australia) tied for 7th (13 under par, 275 strokes), and Korean-Australian player Lee Min-woo tied for 14th (11 under par, 277 strokes).
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