Portrush, Northern Ireland – for the rest of his game life and perhaps his BE Life, Sadom Kaewkanjana, a 27-year-old in Thailand tour, is likely to be recognized as a golf monk. Beyond that, no one can say. Not even a monk.
Only the idea of a golf monk is a gift for the fantastic life of a million western players, at least those formed by Carl Spackler from peg, Shivas handcuffs from Golf in the kingdom AND Tida woods BY The one chosen. In this topic impossible, the survey says this is the main FAB: This golf monk, does he have the secret – and will he give up?
Patience, shrimp gathered. And while we are in it, and because many of us here are likely to be Western, with difficult and easy difficulty, your correspondent is forced to note that Sadom was a two-week monk in 2023, abandoning his bird life for two weeks in a rural, rural Buddhist temple in Tajland. (Shaving their heads, wearing a robe, eating only what is offered, meditating, doing instant tasks.) It is a millions of Thai ritual in their 20s, a habit that (you can say) combines that born again and older.
“For two weeks, you don’t touch a club,” Sadom’s girlfriend, Jaravee Boonchant, another Gallery member, late Friday evening, in Gloaming. She was standing up in a Royal Dune during the second round of the open championship. Jaravee is a professional golf player from Thailand, 26, who studied statistics in Duke, where he was a star golf player. Its English is perfect.
Her boyfriend’s English is more limited. He returned in favor after high school and is loaded with the game. Sadom played in his first first in 2022, in Old courseand ended in a tie for the 11th. He won three national championships, in Thailand in 2021, in Singapore in 2022 and in Korea in 2025. He and Jaravee met on a tour where men and women competed.
On Friday, Jaravee was dressed in polo (baseball lid), again (Hoodie), Adidas (Tennisi) and Maison (jeans). Her dress was as stylish as her boyfriend, representing all the colors in the spectrum from white to gray, was soft. Their golf is also different. “I hit a kick in the draw and he hits a pallor,” Jaraveee said. The air was cooling, the wind was dying, the gills were jumping. “I have a temperament on the course and sadom is always quiet. Not always always, but mostly always always.”
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Michael Bamberger
You can see that in his Friday’s round, while one afternoon with Shiji-Cloud shifts to a dense night. Sadom shot a first round 68, three under par, who generated a transient excitement for (to use some Shorthand-Tread of the press) monkish. Helped him to finish early. At the end of Thursday, Sadom was just a blow from the lead.
But on Friday, the last group at 4:16 pm, he went out to 38 and began his nine Bogey, Bogey, Bogey. Now he was playing to make the cut, and after a trick on the 15 chances that happened to happen a lot. Can you even see a hint of despair on the face of sadom or in his body language? You can’t. He made a noise in the last for 79. The cut was 143, one more. Sadom’s two-day total was 147.
It was 9:30 pm when he shook hands with his two partners who played and their kadiyyah. Sunday’s latest conclusions on Sunday evening will play before the ancestors were packaged, but on Friday the evening maybe 20 spectators in hand while the day was wrapped. Many more people were gathering on a nearby beach for a modest fireworks show.
Before leaving-with Jaravee acting as his animated translator, and with his delightful agent, Krishna Iskandar, standing a respective space-space-space-Sadom sat in a reversible chair for 10 minutes or more and spoke about his experience as (last time?) (At least, the closest thing to him.) He was not, learned, familiar with peg, Golf in the kingdom or the third season of White lotusOn that issue, which is set in Thailand. He said he saw Buddhist principles at work in Tiger’s game, in his strong focus. Sadom made no claim to possess the key to the room where the secrets of golf are preserved, but a topic appeared, during the course of Friday’s short lecture on how he approaches the game: The ball is still. The mind should be too.
If Sadom was hungry or tired or disappointed, you can’t say. He returned to his rented house in Portrarian, with a plan to dinner.
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