Jeon Inji, 27, is also playing well in the second tournament in the 2021 season of the American Women’s Professional Golf (LPGA) Tour.
In the second round of the gainbridge LPGA (total prize money of $2 million) held at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club (par 72, 6,701 yards) in Orlando, Florida, USA on the 27th (Korean time), 6 birdies and double bogie 1 I hit a 4 under par 68 with a dog.
Jeon In-ji, who recorded 137 shots at a 7-under par in the middle, turned the turnaround point in the tournament by standing alone in fourth place, three shots behind the leader Lydia Go (New Zealand).
Jeon Inji also announced her performance this season by ranking fourth in the Diamond Resort Champions Tournament held as the opening game of the season in January this year.
Jeon Inchi, who recorded 3 wins on the LPGA Tour, has not won the KEB Hana Bank Championship in October 2018, and last year, tied for seventh, twice was the best performance.
However, in both competitions this year, they are cruising with their names at the top.
Lydia Goga, who ranked first in the first round alone, reduced three strokes to six buddies and three bogies, keeping the lead at 10 under par with 134 strokes for two consecutive days.
Nelly Corda (US) is in second place alone, and Ryan O’Toole (US) is in third place with Corda again.
In addition to Jeon In-Jin, Choi Woon-jung (31) was a Korean player with 138 strokes under a 6-under par and tied for fifth in the top 10.
’51-year-old veteran’ Annika Sorenstam (Sweden), who participated in the LPGA Tour tournament 13 years after retirement in 2008, succeeded in advancing to the third round.
Sorenstam took 3 buddies and 2 bogies to record 1 under par 71, with a middle total of 2 over par 146 and took the last train through the cut. The ranking is a tie for 67th.
In particular, Sorenstam caught a chip-in birdie on hole 7 (par 4) on the day, and in the first round of the previous day, he passed the cut despite the disadvantage of recording a triple bogie due to the wrong rule of the competition committee member in the 5th hole (par 4). did.
On the fifth hole in the first round, the ball was placed near the fence, and he asked the officials if he could open the door on the swing.
The competition committee member replied that’the door cannot be opened’, and Sorenstam declared unplayable and lost 3 strokes only in that hole.
However, it turned out that the door could have been opened under current regulations, and the competition committee member apologized after Sorenstam’s second round.
The oldest pass on the LPGA Tour was Joanne Carner (USA) at 64 in 2004.
Ko Jin-young (26), who was tied for fourth in the first round, was unable to reduce the number of strokes to an even par that day, so the ranking was lowered to four-under-par 140 and a tie to 16th.
Kim Se-young (28), second place in the world, lost two strokes and went on to the third round with two over-par 146 and Sorenstam tied for 67th.
Park Sung-hyun (28), who was sluggish with an 8-over par and 152 strokes until the second round, missed the cut.
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