CHAMPION: Kim Wins 2018 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling

SKIP
Soo-Hyuk
Kim

Third
ByeongJin
Jeong

Second
JeongJae
Lee

Lead
DonghYeong
Lee

SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR) won 8-7 over Mike McCarville (Thunder Bay, NONT) in the Final of the ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling, held December 28 - 31, 2018 at the Four Seasons Curling Club in Blaine, United States. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Kim won 7-6 over Rich Ruohonen (Chaska, USA) to advance to the championship game. of the 2018 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling in Blaine, Minnesota, United States;

Kim finished 4-0 in the 11-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim defeated Brandon Corbett (Rochester, NY) 6-5, then won 7-5 against Sean Beighton (Madison, WI) and 5-4 against Todd Birr (Blaine, MN). Kim won 7-4 against Jason Smith (Blaine, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling Championship title, Kim earned 19.001 world rankings points along with the $5,971CDN first prize cheque. For week 20 of the event schedule, Kim did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Kim ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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