[PGA] Im Seong-jae shows off his back-heartedness to promote’Top 5’in New Year’s first contest
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Im Seong-jae competed to win the PGA Tour New Year’s first tournament, raising expectations for 2021.
Harris English won the championship after seven years and two months after an extended game.
This is Park Ji-eun.
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Lim Seong-jae, who started with a tie for fifth place, 4 strokes behind the lead, was rarely able to reduce the number of strokes in the putt hunting.
Even the decisive Eagle chance could not be saved.
At one time, it was pushed out of the top 10, but the last minute was shown.
I caught a birdie in a row in the last three holes.
Lim Seong-jae, who recorded a final total of 21 under par by reducing 4 strokes, ended the tournament in a tie for fifth place in the Sentry Tournament of Champions, the first of the year.
It was 4 strokes against winner Harris English.
Im Seong-jae was the first to participate in the de facto king of the king, where only 42 people who participated in the 2020 PGA Tour Tournament and Tour Championship were invited, raising expectations for the New Year with a top 5 record.
The championship cup, $13.4 million, and the prize money of about 1.47 billion won were returned to Harris English.
Par 5 English, who sent a second shot from the 18th hole to the side of the hole, missed the Eagle Putt, and entered overtime with Joaquin Neiman in a 25-under par.
The game was split in the first hole of the extra time.
Neeman, who sent the second shot in the rough, failed the birdie, while English calmly dropped the birdie putt into the hall and became the first winner of the new year.
It has been 7 years and 2 months since November 2013 that English has reached the top of the PGA Tour.
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