| Yewon Lee reads the green slope.[KLPGA 제공. 재판매 및 DB 금지] |
Lee Ye-won (19), the strongest rookie on the Korean Women’s Professional Golf (KLPGA) tour this year, has finally had her first chance to win.
Lee Ye-won added 15 points in the second round of the Dongbu Construction / Korea Land Trust Championship (total prize money of 1 billion won) of the Korea Women’s Professional Golf (KLPGA) tour held with a modified stable pod method at Iksan Country Club (par 72) to Iksan-si, Jeollabuk-do on the 14th. He took the lead with a total of 27 points.
The modified Stableford method determines the ranking by adding up the points awarded for each score, not the number of hits.
Albatross is 8 points, Eagle 5 points, birdie 2 points, bogey is -1, double bogey or more is -3.
Yewon Lee caught 8 birds that day and served 1 bogeyman.
Notably, Yewon Lee swept 5 birdies in the 9 holes in the second half to score 10 points.
Yewon Lee is a candidate for 0th in the Rookie of the Year, overwhelmingly 1st in the Rookie of the Year all season.
As evidenced by 4th place in the prize money ranking (712.42 million won), 6th place in target points and 8th place in average number of hits (70,948 hits), it has top-notch performance.
Although he had plenty of chances to win, including 3x second, Yewon Lee, who had not yet established a connection to the championship, laid the groundwork for another challenge.
“I thought about it before I went out to do a lot of birdies. Yewon Lee said: “I am satisfied with the good results because I play more aggressively than usual.”
Yewon Lee also expressed his desire to win, saying, “At the start of the season, I had no intention of winning, but as I feel closer, my thoughts of winning are growing.”
Ye-won Lee is tasked with avoiding the pursuit of Park Hyeon-kyung (22), ‘Iksan’s daughter’.
Born and raised in Iksan, Park Hyun-kyung, who regards Iksan Country Club as her home course, added 9 points by drawing 5 birdies and 1 bogey that day, trailing Lee Ye-won by 3 points.
Park Hyun-kyung, who was cheered on by the cloud crowd on this day, said: “The support of the fans in my hometown gives me strength and energy. I feel proud too,” he said. “In the beginning, I had high expectations for medium to long range putts, but I couldn’t get the flow in the middle, so I couldn’t reduce the number of hits since as much as I thought.
Park Hyun-kyung is as desperate as Lee Ye-won while struggling because she hasn’t won a championship even though she showed consistent performance this year without missing a cut.
Park Hyun-kyung said: “I will not remember the word victory” and said: “Tomorrow I will catch more birds”.
Lee Ga-young (23), who didn’t win as much as Lee Ye-won and Park Hyeon-kyung, moved up to third place (22 points) adding 11 points with six birdies and a bugbear.
Jinhee Lim (24) and Heejeong Lim (22) finished 4th (21 points) and 5th (20 points).
Kim Hee-ji (20), who took the lead (16 points) with two Eagles in the first round, only added three points with two birdies and a bugbear.
Kim Su-ji (26), who only took 2 birdies the day before and was on the verge of losing the cut with 1 bandit, swept away 7 birdies with no bandit and scored a 9th place tie (17 points) .
Reigning champion Lee Jung-min (30), whose performance was significantly reduced due to injuries, was eliminated from the cut with a total of -2 points.
