[LPGA] Jessica Coda wins the opening game at the end of overtime…

[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Kim Yong-seok = Jessica Coda won the opening game after extra time.

Jessica Coda reached the top six after an extension in the 4th round of the 2021 Season LPGA Tour Diamond Resort Tournament of Champions held at the Four Seasons Golf and Sports Club Orlando in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA on the 25th (Korean time). The winning prize is 180,000 dollars (about 200 million won).

Jessica Coda lifted the 6th LPGA championship trophy. [사진= 게티이미지]

Jeonin-in took fourth place alone in the opening game. [사진= 로이터 뉴스핌]

Jessica Coda, who recorded a final total of 24 under par 260, ended with Daniel Kang who took the lead in three days.

Jessica Coda, the first extension held at the 18th hole, succeeded in putting a birdie at a distance of about 10m, clenching her fists as if foreshadowing victory. Daniel Kang stayed in runner-up after finishing par.

With this, Jessica Coda has won six LPGA Tour careers in two years and 11 months after winning the Honda LPGA Thailand in 2018. ‘Little brother’ Nelly Coda also took third place with a final total of 22 under par 262.

Jeon Inchi (27, KB Financial Group) ended the competition in fourth place alone. On the last day, Jeonin-in, who tied only four buddies and recorded 67 strokes, finished fourth with a final total of 17 under par 267.

Jeon In-ji, who took a tie for 10th on the first day of the tournament and a tie for 3rd on the second day, entered the top 5 on the last day, and this season was expected.

He entered the LPGA Tour after winning the US Women’s Open as an amateur in 2015, and the following year, he climbed to the top of the 2016 Evian Championship and became the rookie king, and in October 2018, he won his career at the KEB Hana Bank Championship. But since then, I haven’t been able to reach the top. It entered the top 10 in 2019 and last year only twice.

After numerous exercises, such as changing the putter into a mallet shape for the first time to find a breakthrough, he achieved good results in the opening game. It is the top 5 in about 1 year and 3 months since a tie for 4th in the BMW Championship in October 2019.

On this day, Daniel Kang competed with Jessica Coda with 2 holes left.
Daniel Kang committed a bogus on hole 15 (par 4), while Jessica Coda made two consecutive birdies at 13 (par 5) and 14 (par 3), and joined the joint leader by blocking hole 15 with a par. Daniel Kang, embarrassed, made a tee shot mistake on the 16th (par 4) hole, but kept it with par.

The day before, Jessica Coda hit an eagle with 9 birdies, hitting 11 under par 60, and became the protagonist of 60 at-bats in 13 years after Paula Creamer (USA) in 2008. The minimum hit for one round in the LPGA was 59 hits by Anyka Sorenstam in 2001.

The two players who buddy side by side at the 17th (par 5) went into extra time because they couldn’t decide the game even at the 18th (par 3) hole.

Jessica Coda drove the momentum of the’big record’ in the 3rd round, and succeeded in an extended buddy putt on the last day, winning the championship in 3 years.

Park Hee-young and Heo Mi-jung were tied for 22nd with a final total of 3 under par 281 strokes.

This competition was held in a way that celebrities and players who had won the competition for the past three years for the total prize money of $1.2 million played’Pro-Am’.

In the celebrity category of the transformed stableford method, tennis player Mardi Fish (USA) won (158 points).

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