CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The emotion flowed out of Si Woo Kim on the 15th green with a furious fist pump to celebrate the putt he rolled in to answer Justin Thomas. In almost the same motion, he put a finger to his lips to silence the crowd that had been so loud around that green all week.
Shush Woo Kim found a way to inject some drama into proceedings that looked like a foregone conclusion, finally asking questions of the U.S. team it had to dig deep to answer on the final day of the Presidents Cup.
Kim ended up beating Thomas on the 18th to win that match, but it wasn’t nearly enough for the Internationals. Thomas didn’t even see Kim’s celebration on 15; he’d already started walking to the next tee and had to turn around to see what the noise was all about.
