Jeunghun Wang’s only pro victory was on the China tour two years ago. Now he has a chance to join some elite company.
Wang won the Hassan Trophy and the AfrAsia Mauritius Open in consecutive weeks. He is in the Irish Open this week at The K Club and will try to join Nick Faldo and Seve Ballesteros as the only players to win three straight European Tour events on the schedule.
Faldo in 1983 won the French Open, the Martini International in England and the Car Care Plan International in England. Three years later, Ballesteros won the Irish Open, the Johnnie Walker Monte Carlo Open and the French Open.
Rory McIlroy in 2014 won three in a row - the Open Championship, Bridgestone Invitational and PGA Championship - though that was over four weeks. And in 2010, Martin Kaymer won the PGA Championship, Dutch Open and Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. That was over an eight-week stretch.
Tiger Woods has done it twice on the PGA Tour - at the end of 1999 (Disney, Tour Championship, American Express) and in 2006 (PGA Championship, Bridgestone Invitational, Deutsche Bank).