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Kodaira tops Kim
odaira looked down at the traditional
winner’s coat, then out at his
audience. “I will probably not wear
it regularly,” he said through an
interpreter, sending a burst of laughter
through the winner’s press conference. “But
this is special.”
Japan’s Kodaira, 28, overcame strong winds
and Si Woo Kim of Korea for his ¿ rst TOUR
win at the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town.
After coming from six shots back at the start
of the day, the winner rolled in a birdie putt
of 24 feet, 6 inches at the par-3 17th hole,
the third hole of a sudden-death playoff, and
watched as Kim failed to match him with a
long birdie attempt of his own.
“I wasn’t really thinking about winning,”
Kodaira said of his thoughts early Sunday,
when he teed off almost an hour before