Hosung Choi Wins Japan PGM Championship

The Korean with the Fisherman's Swing shot a bogey-free final round to win his third Japan Golf Tour title

Hosung Choi Wins Japan PGM Championship

The Korean with the Fisherman's Swing shot a bogey-free final round to win his third Japan Golf Tour title

Hosung Choi Wins Japan PGM Championship

Hosung Choi is a winner again after his two stroke victory at the Japan PGM Championship.

It is the Korean's third Japan Golf Tour victory and his fourth title as a professional.

Choi, the viral sensation with the 'Fisherman's Swing' shot rounds of 68, 67, 68, 67 to beat Shugo Imahira by two.

The Korean defied windy conditions to shoot a bogey-free final round with four birdies and 14 pars, including a clutch par on the par-4 14th after being forced to lay up when his ball found the bunker off the tee.

He then holed a snaking left-to-righter on the 17th for birdie whilst Imahira bogeyed for a huge two-shot swing.

Watch Hosung Choi's birdie putt on 17 -

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The pair both parred the last with Choi finishing at 14 under and Imahira ending at -12.

Watch highlights of the final 36 holes -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=Dy1dpvlgyag&feature=emb_logo

Imahira earned an invite to this year's Masters and currently has a healthy lead atop the Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit.

He has played in three Majors this year and won once on the Japan Tour along with five runners-up including two in a row.

Hosung Choi is up to a career-high 162nd in the world and is also up to 7th on the Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit.

He is also the seventh-highest-ranked Korean male golfer in the world now.

He won around $360,000 with his victory.

After viral internet fame, Choi has played a number of high-profile tournaments this year including the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Barracuda Championship and John Deere Classic on the PGA Tour and Kenyan Open on the European Tour.

Related: Who is Hosung Choi? - The Viral Sensation with the Fisherman's Swing

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Elliott Heath
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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!


Elliott is currently playing:


Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV