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: Played in 25 Web.Com Tour events making 20 cuts. 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. At the WinCo Food Portland Open had the 54 hole lead and held on with a final round 67 for his second win of the year. Went wire-to-wire as the money list leader in the Regular Season, and became the first player since 1990 to win the first and last event of the Tour's Regular Season. His earnings of $534,325 was the second highest on the Web.Com Tour (Michael Sim won $644,142 in 2009) and he earned a PGA Tour card for 2019. Was the Web.com Tour Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year.
2019 Notes: in his first start of the year was T-4th at the Safeway Open, one shot back of the Tway/Moore/Snedeker playoff. Closed with birdies on two of his last three holes in the final round. At the Waste Management Phoenix Open had four rounds in the 60s and finished T-7th. Was T-3rd at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, 3 shots back of winner Francesco Molinari. As one of the top-three finishers inside the top 10 not otherwise eligible for The British Open, earned a spot in the field at Royal Portrush. Next week finished T-4th at the Valspar Championship, two shots back of winner Paul Casey. Was T-7th at the Corales Puntacana Resort Championship.