Two of South Korea's PGA Tour regulars are playing at home this week: Si Woo Kim and Sungjae Im are in the field for the Genesis Championship, a DP World Tour event at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club. A month ago both were on the International team at the Presidents Cup. Their games run in opposite directions. Si Woo Kim gains most on approach and gives a little back on the greens; Sungjae Im is the other way round. The numbers are from the 2026 PGA Tour season unless marked, set against every other player in the same events.
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When they tee off
Local times, with US Eastern in brackets.
- Si Woo Kim: round 1 Thu 12:05 pm (Wed 11:05 pm ET) off the 1st, round 2 Fri 7:40 am (Thu 6:40 pm ET) off the 10th. With Casey Jarvis and Junghwan Lee both days.
- Sungjae Im: round 1 Thu 7:40 am (Wed 6:40 pm ET) off the 10th, round 2 Fri 12:05 pm (Thu 11:05 pm ET) off the 1st. With Eugenio Chacarra and Ryan Fox both days.
Si Woo Kim plays the first two rounds alongside Junghwan Lee, who won here in 2025 at -11.
Side by side in 2026
For the approach and putting rows, a negative approach figure means finishing closer than the tour does from the same distance, and a positive putting figure means holing more putts than the tour from the same distance.
Si Woo Kim: the irons do the work
Kim gained +1.15 strokes a round on the field in 2026: +0.36 off the tee, +0.66 on approach, +0.26 around the green and -0.13 putting, over 91 rounds. The most comes on approach; the least on the greens.
In our shot data, across 792 approach shots from the fairway or the tee, his ball finishes 1.7 feet closer to the hole than the tour's does from the same distance, and he hits 1.9 points more greens. From 125 to 174 yards in the fairway he averages 26.0 feet and 78% of greens, against the tour's 27.3 feet and 76%. On par 3s: 28.2 feet and 71% of greens, against 31.6 feet and 68%.
On the greens he is right at the tour's average: from the same distances he holes 0.2 fewer putts per 100 than the tour over 1,638 putts. From 10 to 19 feet he makes 26%, against the tour's 26%. He three-putts on 1.5% of holes; the tour, 2.9%.
It has grown. From 2019 to 2024 he averaged +0.13 a round on approach; across 2025 and 2026, +0.55.
Sungjae Im: the putter does the work
Im gained +0.40 strokes a round on the field in 2026: +0.25 off the tee, -0.51 on approach, +0.30 around the green and +0.36 putting, over 76 rounds. The most comes on the greens; the least on approach.
In our shot data, across 760 approach shots from the fairway or the tee, his ball finishes 3.3 feet farther from the hole than the tour's does from the same distance, and he hits 7.3 points fewer greens. From 125 to 174 yards in the fairway he averages 31.9 feet and 65% of greens, against the tour's 27.3 feet and 76%. On par 3s: 34.3 feet and 63% of greens, against 31.6 feet and 68%.
On the greens he holes 2.1 more putts per 100 than the tour from the same distances, over 1,520 putts: about 32 extra holed across 68 rounds. From 10 to 19 feet he makes 34%, against the tour's 26%. He three-putts on 2.2% of holes; the tour, 2.9%.
That is new. From 2019 to 2024 he averaged +0.16 a round on approach; across 2025 and 2026, -0.72.
Season by season
Strokes gained per round against the field, on approach and on the greens:
At Woo Jeong Hills Country Club in 2025
Both played the last edition here. Si Woo Kim finished T21 at -4 (-2, E, -2, E); Sungjae Im finished T42 at -1 (-2, -4, +5, E). Junghwan Lee won at -11, the best of 74 who played all four rounds. On the par 5s the field averaged -0.29 a hole; Kim -0.58, Im -0.42.
How the course played hole by hole is in the Genesis Championship field and form preview.
How this is measured
Strokes gained comes from round-level data for every PGA Tour round, per round against that round's field. Everything else is from our own shot capture of 2026, 31 events, compared with every other player in the same events.
An approach is the tee shot on a par 3, the second shot on a par 4 and the third on a par 5, played from 75 to 225 yards from the fairway or the tee. Each one is set against the tour's average from the same 10-yard band, so a player who gets more short approaches does not look better for it. Each putt is set against the tour's make rate from the same foot, 2 to 60 feet. Greens in regulation come from where the ball finished, not a reported flag.
More on each part: approach proximity by distance, how often tour pros make putts and which strokes gained category matters.
Hole-by-hole scoring for the Genesis Championship, updating as it is played, is on the tournament page. Full profiles: Si Woo Kim and Sungjae Im.