PALM CITY, Fla. – Sunny Kim of Queens, NY, enhanced his position atop the Minor League Golf Tour’s career money list with a two-stroke victory Friday at Martin Downs Golf Club. Kim scored a seven under par 64 on the Osprey Creek course with eight birdies and one bogey.
He received $950 from the $5,170 purse and $126.68 in the skins game for a total of $1,076.68 raising his career earnings to $248,191 since he joined the MLGT in October, 2006. He has now won 62 times.
Tied for second at 66 among 38 starters were Chase Koepka of West Palm Beach, FL, with an eagle at the par-5 13th hole, five birdies and two bogeys, and Peter French of Franklin, MA, on five birdies.
Kim also won a $1,000 bonus for winning 2019 Monday Qualifier Contest #1 with a 3-day cumulative total of 201 (68-69-64). That money will be used for Sunny to compete in a Monday Qualifier on the PGA Tour or Web.com Tour. All players that competed in all three 1-day events this week at Parkland GC, Abacoa GC and Martin Downs GC were entered into the contest. Kim was tied with Evan Russell after two events and both were -6 through 14 holes and still deadlocked in the contest. An unfortunate double bogey at the par-4 15th hole by Russell gave Kim a lead he would not relinquish.
Three more 18-hole tournaments are scheduled next week: Sunday, Indian Spring CC-East, Boynton Beach; Monday, The Fox Club, Palm City; and Thursday, The Evergreen Club, Palm City.
