김주형 이글 2방 2승… 세계연합 팀 희망의 불씨


https://www.chosun.com/sports/golf/2022/09/25/GHC3YNSOFVDOHABLST7DZ62JKE/

참으로 자랑스러운 한국 4총사들이다!

https://golf.com/news/liv-golf-players-banned-presidents-cup/

In case you have been living under a rock for a year or so, here’s what you should know: LIV Golf, a 54-hole rival league of the PGA Tour that’s funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, has brought dysfunction to professional golf. Some players have left the PGA Tour in favor of it, and the PGA Tour and DP World Tour have countered by saying those defectors would not be allowed to play in future Ryder Cups or Presidents Cups. (Granted, some players have resigned their Tour memberships, making them ineligible anyway. For a few, that’s also somewhat of a “You can’t fire me, I quit!” scenario.)

The Tour has also successfully (for now) banned those players from its events. So that, in a nutshell, is why some of those golfers won’t be in the 14th playing of the Presidents Cup this week. Both teams, the U.S. and Internationals, lost potential players to LIV, but the underdog International team and captain Trevor Immelman were hit the hardest.

*U.S. made no one could buy Saudi Oil without the dollar in 1970's 

when Richard Nixon abolished gold standard of the dollar because 

U.S. needed to fund Vietnam War. Now, Saudi wants to run World golf 

tour that US opposes. It offers much more money than PGA. Some 

top ranked golfers joined the league and PGA banned them playing 

in PGA tour. They are also excluded from Ryder cup and President's 

cup teams.
 

I do not know how much it affected Korean PGA players to br selected 

in the competition, but it certainly made possible for 4 Korean players 

to be in the team together. 

“헤라클레스 같았던 한국 골퍼 4인방... 세계연합팀 미래는 밝다”
https://www.chosun.com/sports/golf/2022/09/26/4W33NHCW3JA43FSYMA2Y3Q5QUQ/

I couldn't agree with you anymore. The world was impressed by them.

Basically, Korean golfers has led the team.  I am sure they gained confidence from 

the experience in the competition. It will be interesting to see them

winning more often in PGA tour 2023 and beyond.