Ahead of the tournament, Kim was 500/1 as he saw off the star-studded field at Ponte Vedra Beach to become the youngest Asian two-time PGA Tour victor, with the person - who wishes to remain anonymous - sticking on €100 each way. "Never once did he look flustered at all". At 21 years, 10 months and 16 days, Kim is the youngest victor of the tournament considered the fifth major on the PGA Tour.
It wasn't a dream, even though he played so flawlessly and with so little suspense that he could easily have put everyone else to sleep.
Poulter sure did his part. He made the most of it by becoming the only serious threat to Kim on the back nine.
He was forced to take a penalty stroke but then nearly holed out with a wedge from 115 yards to leave himself with a tap-in bogey. Instead, he tapped in for bogey.
Competing against Team United States at the Cup will be the worldwide team, comprising the top 10 global players in the official world ranking. Officially, he had only one putt over the last three holes. His wedge came up well short, and his long putt from just off the green ran 6 feet by the cup.
Elsewhere at Sawgrass on Sunday there was drama as Rafa Cabrera Bello scored a rare albatross.
Oosthuizen held the outright lead after he birdied the second and Stanley and Holmes - who slumped to a closing 84 which included an eight on the 17th - both bogeyed the first. He started Sunday in a tie for first.
The smart money, if an global player overtook American co-leaders J.B. Holmes and Kyle Stanley, was on veterans such as Poulter, Oosthuizen, Adam Scott (the previous youngest victor, at 23 in 2004) or Masters champion Sergio Garcia.
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He made all 11 of his free throws. "I can't jump really high anyway", the Spurs' Australian point guard said. "But this is crap". You still go to jail, I think, when you're texting and you end up killing somebody.
Reigning Masters champion Garcia's ace could only help him finish tied for 13th on six-over-par.
"If you are on your game and playing well, that's the things you do", said Oosthuizen. "And that's exactly what he's done".
Ian Poulter has moved into 80th position in the World Golf Rankings after finishing in a share of second place at the Players Championship.
Poulter will look to build on his superb performance at The Players Championship as he makes his first appearance at Wentworth since 2014, and he is looking forward to seeing the new-look West Course following its extensive renovation over the previous year.
Norton, Mass. - With the 2016-17 PGA TOUR season well past the halfway mark, Korea's Si Woo Kim made the most recent leap in the FedExCup standings with his win at THE PLAYERS Championship, where he posted a bogey-free final round to win his second PGA TOUR title and become the youngest PLAYERS champion at 21 years, 10 months, 16 days.
Poulter admitted afterwards that he was keen to play a number of European Tour events this summer, and he will join the likes of Rory McIlroy, Henrik Stenson and Justin Rose in a star-studded field for the first of seven Rolex Series tournaments.
Just over four years ago, Kim came to the United States to play the final version of the tour's qualifying school.
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