At the just-concluded 2022 Sony Open, 29-year-old Hideki Matsuyama won the title, becoming the second Asian player in golf history to pick up an eight-crown title on the PGA Tour, another record after he became the first Asian to wear a green jacket at Augusta last year, giving more momentum to the Asian whirlwind that continues to this day in 2021.
A turning point in times
On the PGA Tour, American players have always dominated the arena, but since the beginning of the 2021-22 season, autumn events, 5 of the 9 games have been scrapped by international golfers outside the United States, although this is only a quarterly situation, but it is a turning point of the times, it means the development of golf around the world, and as more and more Asian players compete on the PGA Tour and win the championship, the Asian power on the PGA Tour has become a wind that cannot be ignored.
Star of Asia
Asian men's golfers have topped the PGA Tour for the 35th time since Aoki won the Hawaii Open in 1983, symbolizing the highest level of the Professional Tour, with 35 PGA Tour Asian championships contributed by 15 different players from South Korea, Japan, India and Chinese Taipei, of which Aoki won the first PGA Tour title for an Asian player in 1983; Choi Kyung-joo and Hideki Matsuyama won eight PGA Tour titles tied for asia' highest; and Leung Yong-yin was the only Asian player to win a Grand Slam title Hideki Matsuyama achieved a world championship zero breakthrough for Asians at the 2016 HSBC Championships.
PGA Tour Gemini
Compared with the previous Asian players, the current world number one and second Asian golfers Hideki Matsuyama and Ren Chengzai have attracted much attention.
Choi Kyung-joo, the first Asian player to win an eight-time PGA Tour record, completed his eighth PGA Tour title at the age of nearly 41, while Hideki Matsuyama reached that record at the age of 29; 23-year-old Ren Sung-jae, who won the title of "Iron Man" because he played many games in a year, broke into the last tour tournament of the playoffs in his first season of promotion to the PGA Tour, and won the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in the 2018-2019 season, after winning the SanDivers Brotherhood Children's Hospital Open last year. Became the PGA Tour double champion...
On the field, Hideki Matsuyama and Ren Chengzai have a unique style of play, they are so young, it is the year of play, the future can be expected, what is more valuable is that they all have the same unique personality representing Asian culture, tough, stoic, hardworking, low-key, they have set a new, higher benchmark for golfers, not surprisingly, they are promoting the development of Asian golf with their own efforts and achievements, and will also become the object of pursuit and emulation by the young generation in Asia in the next few years.
In the history of golf and the course of the event, people have long been accustomed to the black and white champion face, but with the trend of small white balls sweeping the world, the development of golf in various countries is breaking this inherent color cognition, more and more yellow skin and black eyes on the highest podium of PGA TOUR, this is the proud moment that belongs to Asia, is the moment that ignites the hope and future of Asian golf, and such a moment, It will always make us have more dreams and expectations for the five-star red flag to fly on the championship podium again!
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