Date:03/03/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/03/stories/2008030371071800.htm

Sport - Golf

Choi named Asian Player of the Year

GURGAON: For the second time in his career, Korea’s Choi Kyung-Ju walked away with the Johnnie Walker Asian Player of the Year Award.

Winner of the Memorial tournament and the AT&T National, both on the US PGA Tour last season, and fifth in the Fed Ex Cup, Choi broke into the World top-10 rankings.

Choi, winner in 2002, was chosen ahead of last year’s Asian Tour Order of Merit winner China’s Liang Wen-Chong and Thailand’s Chapchai Nirat. The other two main awards went to Korea’s Lee Sung and Argentina’s Andres Romero. — Special Correspondent