{"id":252370,"date":"2026-03-23T17:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/03\/23\/top-10-finish-im-sung-jae\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:29:17","slug":"top-10-finish-im-sung-jae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/sports\/2026\/03\/23\/top-10-finish-im-sung-jae\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Finish! 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He missed events in January and February because of a wrist injury and opened his season earlier this month at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. <\/p>\n<p> He missed the cut at both the Arnold Palmer Invitational and THE PLAYERS Championship, failing to record an under-par round in four rounds across those two starts, but he bounced back at this week&#8217;s event. <\/p>\n<p> Among Korean players, Si-woo Kim remained the highest-ranked at No. 29. <\/p>\n<p> Joo-hyung Kim rose four spots to No. 123, while Byeong-hun An fell six places to No. 129. <\/p>\n<p> Sung Hyun Kim, who tied for seventh at the Valspar Championship, climbed from 157th to 138th. <\/p>\n<p> There were also minor shifts at the top of the rankings. <\/p>\n<p> Scottie Scheffler (USA) held the No. 1 spot, followed by Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland). <\/p>\n<p> Cameron Young (USA) jumped to third, Tommy Fleetwood (England) dropped to fourth, and Xander Schauffele (USA) moved up two places to fifth. <\/p>\n<p> Matt Fitzpatrick (England), who won the Valspar Championship at 11-under 273, surged from 15th to sixth. <\/p>\n<p> [Sports Today reporter Seo-young Shin <span><font color=\"blue\">sports@stoo.com<\/font><\/span>]<br \/>\u201cThe closest, most FunFun news \u24d2 Sports Today\u201d   <\/p>\n<div class=\"byeline\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- view_related --><!-- view_related\/\/ --><!-- \ubc14\uc774\ub77c\uc778 \ud558\ub2e8 2\uc904 \ud558\uc774\ub77c\uc774\ud2b8 --><!-- \ubc14\uc774\ub77c\uc778 \ud558\ub2e8 \ud558\uc774\ub77c\uc774\ud2b8 --><!-- next_article\/\/ --><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Im Sung-jae rises to 67th in world golf rankings after tying for 4th at the Valspar Championship, marking his first top-10 finish of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/contents-cdn.viewus.co.kr\/image\/2026\/03\/CP-2023-0081\/image-682f9152-8915-4a29-9388-65cea1eb55b7.jpeg","footnotes":""},"categories":[278095],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top 10 Finish! 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