Gary Moss
Sang Yul Chun’s mission is to bring great golf coverage to Asia.
ball League in 1970, or by the squabbling among open-wheel car racing teams, which created rival leagues in the United States, leading to the Championship Auto Racing Teams circuit in 2003. Golf in Asia so far has avoided open acrimony. To strengthen its
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position, OneAsia earlier this year recruited Tenniel Chu, whose family operates two enormous golf resorts in China, both under the Mission Hills brand. Since the early 1990s, the Chus, who are prominent in real estate development, have allied themselves with Jack Nicklaus and other eminent names in golf. Chun calls Tenniel Chu “one of the most important
and respected people in the sport,” someone whose influence will no doubt lend weight to Chun’s leadership of the sanctioning body. The son of a prominent Korean banker, Chun was sent to the United States to study business, graduating from George Washington University in 1964. He chose advertising as his specialty, working first for what was the
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