Park In-bi interviews after finishing the second round of the Kia Classic on the 27th LPGA Tour. LPGA homepage capture
Park In-bi (33) was the sole leader in the second round of the American Women’s Professional Golf (LPGA) Kia Classic (total prize money of $1.7 million). Park In-bi, who skipped the three competitions that preceded this year and started the season with this competition, has a chance to win in more than a year since the Australian Women’s Open in February last year.
Park Inbi recorded 4 birdies and 1 bogie in the second round of the tournament held at Aviara CC (par 72) in Carlsbad, California, USA on the 27th (Korean time), finishing with 3 under par 69 strokes. With a total of 135 strokes in the middle of the 9-under par, he took the lead alone, one stroke ahead of Sophia Popov (Germany), second place. If he wins this tournament, Inbi Park will win 21 victories on the LPGA Tour.
Park In-bi, who started from hole 10 that day, caught a birdie in hole 12 (par 4), reducing one stroke in the first half, and holes 1 (par 4), 3 (par 3), and 5 (par 5) in the second half. I caught a stepping stone birdie in However, after that, he couldn’t reduce the number of strokes further and only scored on the 7th hole (par 4).
Park Inbi said, “The weather was much better than yesterday. “It didn’t rain and the wind was even less,” he said. “The game was good overall, but putt wasn’t the same as yesterday.” He continued, “I couldn’t put the buddy putt even though I put the shot really close, but I went in at 15-20 feet (about 4.5m-6m),” he said. “It’s a green that needs practice.”
Kim Hyo-joo (26), who took part in the LPGA Tour Tournament after 1 year and 4 months, was ranked 2nd in the 1st round. On this day, he swapped 3 buddies and 3 bogies, unable to reduce the number of strokes and climbed to 4th place (5 under par 139). Ko Jin-young (26), the world’s No. 1 player, reduced one stroke and climbed to 10th place (2 under par 142) with Mi-jeong Heo (32).
Other Korean players were sluggish. Last year’s LPGA Tour Player of the Year, Kim Se-young (28), ranked second in the world rankings, tied with Lee Jeong-eun (25) and Park Sung-hyun (28), and was eliminated in the cut by staying in 77th place (4 over par 148 strokes), and won a surprise victory at the US Women’s Open last year. Kim A-lim (26), who made her official debut through this tournament, obtained as a member of the LPGA Tour, was also eliminated at 96th place.
The unfortunate result is pre-knowledge (27). By reducing one stroke in the second round, he recorded 139 strokes in the middle of the 5th under par, which is the fourth place, but was disqualified after submitting the score card without signing. Having entered the top 10 in all three competitions this year, he missed the opportunity to continue the uptrend.
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