Rising Star Kim Wins Players Title

He is now the youngest winner in the tournament’s history

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South Korean Kim Si-Woo became the youngest winner in Players Championship history, firing a three under par 69 on Sunday for a three-stroke US PGA Tour victory. The 75th-ranked prodigy, who has played 120 professional tournaments worldwide, became only the second Asian winner of the event after South Korea's K.J. Choi in 2011. The 21-year-old Kim eclipsed the Players age mark set by Adam Scott when the Australian won at age 23 in 2004 at the famed TPC Sawgrass layout in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

"I still can't believe I'm the champion and I'm the youngest champion for this major tournament," Kim said through a translator. I'm looking forward to working hard from now on." Resolute and cool under pressure, Kim used a bogey-free final round to collect his biggest victory by finishing 72 holes on 10-under 278. Ranked 75th in the world, he became only the second non-US player to win twice on the US PGA Tour before age 22, joining last month's Masters winner, Spaniard Sergio Garcia.