Golf 2025 Player Profile: Sungjae Im
The 2025 men's professional golf season is underway, promising a blend of dominant performances, surprising upsets, and career-defining moments. Fans will get to see which rising stars can take their career to the next level. We’ll get answers to what veterans will slowly fall off? Whose careers will take a turn for the good or bad? Who will win the 2025 Majors? Here is the 2025 Player Profile for Sungjae Im.
Current Official World Golf Ranking: 21st
Career Wins: 2
Career Major Wins: 0
Career Summary
Im turned professional in 2015 on the Asian Tour, joined the PGA Tour in 2019, and has won a total of two times on the PGA Tour. He claimed victories in the 2020 Honda Classic and in the 2021 Shriner’s Children’s Open. Additionally, Im has three international wins. Two wins at the Woori Financial Group Championship in 2023 and 2024 and a win at the Genesis Championship in 2019. All time, the Republic of Korea native has made 147 out of 185 cuts, finished runner-up five times, finished third six times, has 21 top-five finishes, and 47 top-10 finishes. Im has represented for the International President’s Cup Team three times, in 2019, 2022, and 2024, and represented the Republic of Korea in the Olympics in 2020. In the Majors, the 26-year-old has had a somewhat boom or bust record. In 19 Majors played he’s missed the cut 10 times, finished in the top 10 three times, and finished in the top 25 six times. His best finish came at the 2021 Masters where he finished tied for second. In 2024 Im missed the cut at the Masters, the PGA Championship, and the U.S. Open. He finished tied for seventh at the 2024 Open Championship. Im is currently ranked 19th in strokes gained total, 14th in strokes gained off the tee, 163rd in strokes gained on approach, 30th in strokes gained around the green, and 16th in strokes gained putting. He is currently the 21st-ranked player on the official world golf rankings.
2025 Expectations
Im has played in four PGA Tour events so far in 2025. He played the Sentry in Hawaii where he finished third. He missed the cut at the American Express in Palm Springs, CA. He finished tied for fourth at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego, CA, and finished tied for 33rd at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in Monterey, CA. Every time fans tune into any event it always seems like Im is near the top of the leaderboard. For some reason, however, the 26-year-old hasn't been able to produce the wins he has the capability to do. This is likely due to his glaring weakness in his approach play. His ball-striking just hasn’t been good enough to keep up with some of the elite players on tour. If he wants to turn those top finishes into wins, he just needs to get better in that part of his game. He’s great off the tee, around the green, and on the green, but it’s just difficult for anyone to contend when you aren’t striking the ball well. This is even more true at the Majors. The expectations for Sungjae Im for the remainder of 2025 are zero-to-one tour wins, will have a top 15 finish at one of the Majors, likely the Masters, and will finish as a top 30 player on the official world golf rankings.
