Posted: May 15, 2011 PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. ?This is not a love story. Five years ago, a group of good ol?boys from Nashville, Tenn., journeyed to The Players Championship. There was Bobby Page, his two college-aged sons and a few of their pals. All nice guys, the kind with infectious smiles and contagious laughs that can make friends with a stranger in no time at all. It was your typical buddies?golf trip. They watched golf, played golf and talked about golf. It was so much fun, they turned it into an annual tradition, making the pilgrimage to TPC Sawgrass for every edition of the event since. Prior to last year, though, they were fans without a mission. They cheered for the great shots and sighed for the disappointing ones, but their attention had no direction. Until they found K.J. Choi. 밯e were sitting between 16 and 17 and some golfers were coming through,?Alex Kirkland recalled. 밫hey were upset and cussing. Then K.J. comes through; he뭩 just grinning ear to ear. Ever since then, I was like, he뭩 just a friendly fellow.? The longtime PGA Tour veteran didn뭪 have the resume of Tiger Woods or the electric smile of Phil Mickelson or the star-power potential of Rickie Fowler. He did, however, have one thing going for him that appealed to the golf fanatics. As Bobby Page put it, 밯e just kept noticing how nice a guy he is.? And so was born 밅hoi뭩 Bois,?an unlikely fan club based solely on the fact that a group of guys from Nashville wanted to root for a player from South Korea simply because they liked him. No, this is not a love story. It's a like story. When they returned this year, the group came outfitted in black t-shirts with its lyrical name printed on front. They wore 멷m every day, following their new favorite player all over the course, ignoring all social mores about cheering loudly for a non-superstar and keeping hygiene issues to a minimum. 밯e뭨e probably a little rank,?Page admitted after four days in his shirt. 밯e뭭e been wearing these since Thursday.? They may never take them off. That뭩 because in the first year as an official faction, 밅hoi뭩 Bois?witnessed their new hero claim the most important victory of his lengthy career, outlasting David Toms in a playoff to earn the crystal trophy at one of the game뭩 most prestigious events. 밒t뭩 been a bunch of emotional highs and lows,?David Clayton explained. 밐e left a few shots out there and we got down a little bit, but we always had hope that he would come through and he did on 17. He hit some incredible shots. We뭨e all pumped up and excited.? They뭨e not the only ones. You may think big-time golfers are accustomed to signing autographs and having fans yell their names from behind the ropes ?and that뭩 true, to an extent. When a player gets honored with his own on-course entourage, though, it means a little more than the average applause. Just ask Choi. 밫hey showed me a lot of support, a lot of love,?he said through an interpreter Sunday evening. 밊or them to come all the way from Tennessee to watch me play? Imagine, I have no relationship with them. This is the first time I뭭e ever seen them. For them to fly all the way over just because they like me as a player and to support me they way that they did, I뭢 very appreciative. It뭩 really spectacular to see something like that.? Choi enjoyed their continuous company throughout his rounds so much that he asked them if they could all take a photo together ?not the other way around ?breaking a long-standing unspoken rule that it뭩 the fans who are supposed to initiate that type of memento instead of the players. But remember, Choi is a nice guy ?the very reason 밅hoi뭩 Bois?started rooting for him in the first place. 밐e really appreciated it,?Page said. 밯e뭭e had a ball and he뭩 been very nice to us. We built a lot of memories while we뭭e been down here. That뭩 what it뭩 all about.? 밐e just loves the game and plays it the right way,?Curtis Gribble added. 밐e뭩 just a joy to watch. When he bogeys a hole, if anybody claps, he acknowledges them ?more than any other golfer out here. You can tell he just loves what he뭩 doing and enjoys the fans. He just knows it뭩 special to be out here.? It was at that point when Page interjected, reminding Gribble of an earlier acknowledgement from their favorite golfer. 밐ey, he said he loves you,?Page recalled with a laugh. Maybe this is a love story after all. At least, as Gribble concluded, 밒n a roundabout kind of way.?