PGA Tour: Sung Kang suffers through another brutal round
By Tim Letcher
Sung Kang would like to forget his last two starts on the PGA Tour. On Friday, he suffered through yet another bad round of golf.
To say that the 2020-21 PGA Tour season has gotten off to a slow start for Sung Kang would be quite an understatement. Unfortunately for him, that trend continued on Friday at the Sanderson Farms Championship.
Kang’s first start this season was at the U.S. Open. He shot a respectable 74 in the first round of the event, getting off to a decent start. However, he came back on Friday with an 86. That included a front nine where he shot 11-over par 46, with four double bogeys and three bogeys. His back nine was actually normal compared to the front. He had three bogeys and a double to shot 5-over par 40. Kang was better than only one player, amateur Eduard Rousaud, in the event.
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Keeping with his current trend, Kang shot a 74 on Thursday this week in Mississippi. That wasn’t as good as his 74 at the U.S. Open because there were scores at least 10 shots better than his in the first round of the Sanderson.
On Friday, Kang was at it again, racking up shot after shot in his second round.
His day started on the 10th hole, a par three, where he pulled his tee shot left. His second shot came up short, then his third left him about 20 feet for bogey. He missed, and suffered a double bogey. That’s 2-over through one hole.
Kang would par the 11th before a bogey on the 12th dropped him to 3-over. He was able to birdie the par-3 13th hole to get back to 2-over.
Pars on 14 and 15 followed before another bogey, this one at the 16th hole. Kang then birdied 17 and bogeyed 18 to shoot a 3-over par 39 on his first nine.
His round went totally off the rails on his second nine. He opened with a bogey on the par-4 10th hole to drop to 4-over par. Then on the second hole, Kang hit not one but two balls in the water on his way to the dreaded snowman, an eight, on the par four. At that point, he found himself at 8-over par for his round.
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The 33-year-old South Korean bounced back with a birdie on the fifth hole, but it was too little, too late. He ended up shooting a 79 and again, he beat only one player in the field.
Kang, who won the 2019 AT&T Byron Nelson, has lost his way at the start of this season. He needs to figure something out in a hurry if he is to keep his card for next year.