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NAPA, CA – OCTOBER 12: Sang-Moon Bae of South Korea holds the champions trophy after winning the Frys.com Open at Silverado Resort and Spa on October 12, 2014 in Napa, California. Bae finished the tournament at 15 under par. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images) /

What Sangmoon Bae is doing is pretty remarkable when you think of it. While not exactly a star on the PGA Tour, Bae was a winner and a solid player when he had to take a two-year hiatus to fulfill his native South Korea’s military requirements.

He did not play in an event from Oct. 2015 to Sept. 2017. Understandably, things were a little rough at the beginning of his comeback.

He managed just one top-20 while playing on an exemption. That wasn’t going to cut it, so Bae went to Web.com Tour finals and finished T35 and T6 before closing with a win at the Boise Open.

That type of golf is what we’ve seen out of him here at Silverado, too.

Bae won the 2014 Fry’s.com Open for the second of his two Tour wins. He blistered the North course with rounds of 66, 69 and 65 to give him a cushion to hang on with a Sunday 73.

We’ll let last year’s missed cut slide. He’s back in good form and can play at ease with military service and Tour card worries behind him.

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