Sung Kang pumps his fist after a birdie putt on the 10th hole in the final round of the Byron Nelson on Sunday at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas.DALLAS – Sung Kang was a teenager when his father started sending him from South Korea to northern Texas in the winters and summers to work on his golf game.
The 31-year-old Kang, who now lives in the area, got to call his father Sunday to tell him “I did it” after earning his first PGA Tour victory in his 159th start.
Kang closed the AT&T Byron Nelson with a 4-under-par 67 to finish at 23-under 261 and beat Matt Every (66) and Scott Piercy (64) by two strokes.
With three consecutive birdies late, including a 23-footer on the 15th hole, Kang finally regained the lead for good on a 27-hole day at Trinity Forest Golf Club – about 30 minutes from his home in Coppell, where he has lived since his PGA Tour debut in 2011.
“It just feels amazing. I was thinking about winning on the PGA Tour when I was real young and watching Tiger dominating,” Kang said. “My dad gave me a lot of support when I was young.”