Lydia Go leads for two consecutive days, Ko Jin-young tied for 16th
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Dong-chan = Jeon In-ji (27) is continuing to play well in the second tournament of 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 tournament’s turnaround point in fourth place alone, three shots behind the leader Lydia Go (New Zealand).
Jeon Inchi also announced her performance this season by ranking fourth in the Diamond Resort Champions Tournament, which was 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 3 strokes to 6 buddies and 3 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 ranked in the 10th place with 138 strokes and a tie for fifth place as a Korean player.
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’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, and boarded the last train passing the cut with a total of 2 over par 146 in the middle. 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 of the first round, the ball was placed near the fence, and he asked the officials if he could open the door at the part of 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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