Sungjae Im

Grew up playing the CJ Nine Bridges Golf Club, which later became the host of CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges. Turned pro when he was 17, he went and played in a couple of Korean events until he qualified to play on the Japan Golf Tour.
2016 Japan Golf Tour Summary: Tournaments Entered - 16; In Money - 8; Top-10 Finishes - 3; Scoring Average - 71.86 (Rank T-56th); Money - Yen18,291,100 ($167,156) (Rank 59th); Best Finish - T-4th Mynavi ABC Championship.
2017 Japan Golf Tour Summary: Tournaments Entered - 24; In Money - 22; Top-10 Finishes - 9; Scoring Average - 70.35 (Rank 5th); Money - Yen62,441,879 ($570,636) (Rank 12th); Best Finish - T-2nd Mynavi ABC Championship, 3rd Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open, T-3rd Myanmar Open. He had six top-five finishes.
At the end of 2017 finished second in Web.Com Tour Qualifying Tournament, finishing two shots back of medalist Lee McCoy.
2018 Notes: In his first start on the Web.Com Tour won the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic by four shots over Carlos Ortiz. Im became the 16th player in Web.com Tour history to win on his first start. At age 19 years, 9 months and 17 days, became the second youngest champion in the tour's history behind Jason Day (19 years, 7 months and 26 days). The next week continued his good play finishing second at the Bahamas Great Abaco Classic. In the history of the Web.Com Tour, it was the second best back-to-back rookie starts only beaten by Ben Kohles who won his first two Web.Com Tour starts in 2012. Im claimed another runner-up finish at the Knoxville Open, 3 shots back of winner Stephan Jaeger and then again at the Pinnacle Bank Championship, 2 shots back of winner David Skinns.

2018 Web.Com Tour results
Tournament Pos 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total Score To Par Earnings
The Bahamas Great Exuma Win 69 69 72 65 275 -13 $108,000.00
The Bahamas Great Abaco 2 71 67 65 69 272 -16 $64,800.00
Panama Championship T34 67 77 70 69 283 +3 $3,343.75
Colombia Championship T56 71 71 74 69 285 +1 $1,855.00
Mexico Championship CUT 70 76 146 +2
Chitimacha Louisiana Open T11 65 71 71 67 274 -10 $11,660.00
Savannah Golf Championship T8 70 67 71 66 274 -14 $15,950.00
North Mississippi Classic T22 71 72 70 213 -3 $4,643.65
United Leasing & Finance CUT 81 70 151 +7
Knoxville Open 2 69 69 65 68 271 -13 $59,400.00
BMW Charity Pro-Am T9 69 65 68 63 265 -19 $17,500.00
Nashville Golf Open T21 72 69 68 68 277 -11 $5,720.00
Rex Hospital Open T35 70 68 68 69 275 -9 $3,095.63
Wichita Open CUT 71 71 142 +2
Lincoln Land Championship CUT 67 72 139 -3
LECOM Health Challenge T8 70 67 68 68 273 -15 $15,000.00
Utah Championship CUT 71 69 140 -2
Pinnacle Bank Championshi 2 65 67 71 67 270 -14 $64,800.00
Price Cutter Charity T21 67 69 71 65 272 -16 $7,020.00
KC Golf Classic T43 66 68 71 72 277 -7 $2,217.85