Kim Sung-hyun, 28, Kim Joo-hyung, 24, and Moon Do-yeop, 35, will represent South Korea in men's golf at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, which open in Japan in September.
The Korea Golf Association said Friday it had selected three players each for the men's and women's teams and submitted the list to the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee.
The men's team was chosen based on the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR), with Kim Sung-hyun (ranked 143rd), Kim Joo-hyung (144th) and Moon Do-yeop (203rd) selected. Kim Sung-hyun and Kim Joo-hyung compete primarily on the U.S. PGA Tour, while Moon Do-yeop plays mainly on the Korea Professional Golf Association (KPGA) Tour.
For the women's team, after the top 15 Korean players in the Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings declined to participate, Park Seo-jin (Seomun Girls' High School), Kim Gyu-bin (Haksan Girls' High School) and Yang Yun-seo (Incheon Girls' Affiliated Broadcasting & Correspondence High School), the top-ranked players in the Korea Golf Association rankings, were selected. All three are national team amateurs.
The golf competition at the Asian Games will be held from September 30 to October 3 at the East Course of Kasugai Country Club in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, in a 72-hole stroke play format. A total of four gold medals are at stake (men's and women's individual and team events). Starting with this edition, the number of participants for each country's men's and women's team events has been reduced from four to three.
Korean golf has won a total of 14 gold medals at past Asian Games (six in men's, eight in women's). Its most recent gold came in the men's team event at the previous Hangzhou Games (Kim Si-woo, Im Sung-jae, Jang Yu-bin and Cho Woo-young).
