Kevin Yu won the Sanderson Farms Championship Sunday by shooting a final round 67 and winning a one-hole playoff with Beau Hossler.
For PGA Tour champion Kevin Yu, father knew best and he called it by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today October 6, 2024 When Kevin Yu, a 26-year-old Taiwanese golf pro, first entered the gates of the Country Club of Jackson for the Sanderson Farms Championship last week, his dad, Tommy, was driving. “My dad pulled into the first empty parking spot he saw,” Kevin Yu said. “I told him we couldn’t park there because there was a sign that said the spot was reserved for past champions.
” Then came Friday’s out-of-the-blue news that Sanderson Farms was extending its sponsorship for one more year. “I was so happy to hear that news,” Yu said. “Now I can come back and defend my title.” And with preferred parking, he might have added. Yu becomes the third Taiwanese player to win on golf’s most lucrative tour, following first T.C. Chen and C. T. Pan . “I think this means a lot for all Taiwanese,” Yu said. “I feel like I can be an example.
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