The second major tournament of the season opens tomorrow.
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The PGA Championship, the second major tournament of the PGA Tour season, will be held for four days starting on the 16th at Valhalla Golf Club (par 71) in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Among the 156 players participating in this tournament, the players closest to winning are world number one Scottie Scheffler (USA) and number two Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland). Scheffler is showing his best performance this season. He won four times out of the 10 competitions he participated in this year. He won four championships, including the first major tournament of the season, the Masters, and the Players Championship, which is called the fifth major tournament, all in special tournaments with a total prize money of more than 20 million dollars (about 27.4 billion won).
Scheffler did not compete for about three weeks after winning the RBC Heritage last month as his wife was due to give birth. With the birth of my first son, Bennett, on the 9th, I was able to take on the challenge of winning two major championships in a row. Schaeffler, who arrived at the Walhalla Golf Club where this tournament was held on the 14th, received many congratulations from his fellow players and tournament officials. 토토사이트
Schaeffler's strongest competitor is McIlroy. McIlroy kissed the trophy for the 26th time in his career on the PGA Tour at the Wells Fargo Championship, a special event that ended on the 13th. The last major tournament McIlroy won was the PGA Championship held here in 2014. McIlroy will attempt to win his third PGA Championship, including the 2012 tournament at Kiawah Island, South Carolina. The PGA Tour announced the power ranking predicting the winner of this tournament and ranked McIlroy first and Scheffler second.
Among Korean players, Byeong-Hoon An is expected to perform well. Byeong-Hoon An took third place at the previous Wells Fargo Championship, following McIlroy and Xander Chopley (USA). In the 13 competitions he participated in this season, Byeong-Hoon An finished in the top five four times, including runner-up once. The power rankings for this tournament were announced up to 15th place, and An Byeong-hun (11th place) was the only Korean player included. 슬롯사이트
Seongjae Lim, Siwoo Kim, Joohyung Kim, Kyunghoon Lee, Seonghyeon Kim, and Yang Yongeun, who became the first Asian player to win the PGA Championship in 2009, will also participate. ‘Golf Emperor’ Tiger Woods (USA) will also participate in the tournament a month after the Masters. Woods is the winner of the 2000 PGA Championship. 토토사이트