PGA pro's dinner run turns into border interrogation

Golf's a game of precision, except apparently when it comes to GPS directions. Si Woo Kim, in Detroit for the Rocket Classic, punched a Korean BBQ spot into his phone and ended up 19.5 miles off course — in another country, no passport, surrounded by border patrol.

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Hell of a Wrong Turn: Si Woo Kim was surrounded by Border Patrol Agents in Canada because he put the wrong Korean BBQ restaurant in his GPS

The culprit was a classic case of duplicate restaurant names. Kim was aiming for Daebak Korean BBQ in Southfield, Michigan, but his GPS routed him through the Detroit-Windsor tunnel toward a same-named joint on the Canadian side instead. As he told it, the realization hit fast once he was already committed: "Then, as soon as I got into the tunnel, I was like, 'Oh, this is Canada.'" By the time dinner actually happened, he was 90 minutes late.

It's an easy mistake to laugh off in hindsight, and Barstool wasted no time pointing out the obvious defense: how's a guy supposed to know two restaurants share the exact same name?

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How's he supposed to know there's two restaurants with the exact same name? t.co/K7gKMppfBc

The real chaos started on the way back. Without a passport, Kim tried to turn around before formally crossing, but U.S. officers wouldn't let him — he had to go through Canada and come back the proper way. That's when 8 border agents descended on his car, searching it while he dealt with an obvious language barrier in a high-pressure situation. "The guys just came at me, searching my car," he said of the scene.

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Si Woo Kim explains the story of getting caught up at the Canadian Border earlier this week

Somehow the mood lightened once the agents figured out who they'd pulled over. Kim told them he was in town for the Rocket Classic, and the officers reportedly asked, half-joking, if he'd win on Sunday. His response was perfect: "If you let me through, I can." It's the kind of line that turns a stressful border stop into a story he'll be telling for the rest of his career.

For a guy who's carved out a reputation as one of the tour's chattier, more colorful personalities, this tracks. Kim's now retelling the whole ordeal in interviews, turning an accidental international incident into pure content — proof that even a wrong turn in a rental car can become the best story of the week.