Tae-Hoon Kim was doubly fortunate Thursday at The Genesis Invitational at The Riviera Nation Membership. The professional golfer not solely hit a gap in a single on the course’s sixteenth gap, however he gained himself a Genesis G80 within the course of.
The opening-in-one got here on the course’s 166-yard par 3 and you may see it within the video beneath. If his response to the shot and the prize appears slightly subdued to you, it’s as a result of he’s remarkably gifted at winning Genesis-es.
That is the third car from the model that the golfer has gained within the final 4 months. Kim earned himself a GV80 earlier this 12 months after successful the Genesis Open on the Korean Tour in October. Amusingly, that’s the match that in the end earned him an invite to this occasion.
Kim was additionally awarded a Genesis GV70 SUV for main the order of advantage on the Korean Tour in 2020. Fortuitously for Kim, he doesn’t need to increase his storage simply but.
“I gave the primary two automobiles to my dad and mom however I’m unsure but what I’ll do with this latest one,” Kim informed PGAtour. “I didn’t see the ball go within the gap however then I observed some folks up on the inexperienced celebrating and realized it went in. That was a reasonably particular factor to occur in my first PGA TOUR occasion.”
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It could have been unfair to name Kim fortunate up on the high, although. He had some nice holes within the opening spherical of the match. He grew to become simply the fourth golfer since 1983 to hit two eagles on the again 9 of the Riviera in the identical spherical.
His second day isn’t going fairly as nicely, although, and (at time of writing) Kim is tied at 87th with a cumulative rating of two photographs over par.
That is the fifth 12 months in a row that Genesis is partnering with the PGA Tour to sponsor the Invitational.