Rarely do we understand the struggle of Korean players.
Each have equally significant journeys to the LPGA Tour, yet their individual stories are obscured by a curtain of monolithic success.
Last year, In Gee Chun shot a 64 in the first round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, bewildering everyone due to the severely wet, windy and cold conditions at a lengthy Congressional Country Club.
She went on to win the tournament, although many of the headlines focused on Lexi Thompson’s collapse the final day when she lost a two-stroke lead.
If Thompson had won, it would have been her second major victory. For Chun, it was her third.
