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| Kang Seong-hoon. (AFP = Yonhap News) |
Kang Seong-hoon was tied for 19th in the second round of the 2020-2021 American Professional Golf (PGA) Tour Genesis Invitational (total prize money of $9.3 million).
Kang Sung-hoon hit 3 under par 68 with 6 birdies and 3 bogies in the second round of the 2nd round of the competition held at Pacific Palisades’s Riviera Country Club (par 71, 7322 yards) in California, USA on the 20th (Korean time). He recorded 139 strokes, up 28 places from the previous day.
Kang Seong-hoon, who is showing the most sluggish performance on his PGA tour debut this season, reduced three strokes on this day and built a foothold in entering the season’s first’Top 10′. Up to this tournament, he has participated in 13 tournaments in the season and passed cuts in 6 tournaments, and has never been in the’Top 10′. It is only 125th in the FedEx Cup ranking.
In the lead, Sam Burns (USA) took only 5 birdies on this day, hitting a 5 under par 66, with a 12-under par 130 in the middle, running for two consecutive days.
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| Jordan Spice. (AFP = Yonhap News) |
Dustin Johnson (USA), the world’s top men’s golf ranking, tied for second place with 5 birdies and 1 bogie, hitting 4 under par 67, with a middle total of 7 under par 135. Following this, Jordan Spice (USA), who reported a sluggish escape by being in the’Top 5’in both recent competitions, is tied for 6th with a 6-under par 136 in the middle.
Burns, who is in the lead, is tied for second place, five strokes ahead, and is cruising toward his first PGA Tour title win.
Lee Kyung-hoon, who won a tie for second at the Phoenix Open at the beginning of this month and won the best personal record on the PGA tour, lost one stroke and recorded an even par 142, and went on to play the weekend game passing the cut.
On the other hand, Kim Tae-hoon, who won the Genesis Grand Prize and the Genesis Prize Winner along with winning the 2020 Korean Professional Golf (KPGA) Korean Tour Genesis Championship, hit a 4-over par 75 with 4 birdies, 1 double bogie, and 6 bogies. He scored a stroke but was eliminated in the cut.
Tae-Hoon Kim, who participated in this tournament as a winner of the Genesis Championship, and was the first to participate in the PGA Tour, scored an Eagle and a hole-in-one in holes 10 to 18 in the first round of the tournament, and after hitting 2 under par 69, joint 19 Climbed on top However, he lost 4 strokes in the second round, preventing him from playing the weekend game. As a result, the winners of the KPGA Korean Tour Genesis Championship began to participate in this tournament in 2018, and all except Lee Tae-hee in 2019 were eliminated from the cut.
Kim Si-woo, who won the America Express last month, also lost 6 strokes that day and was eliminated with a 6-over par 148.
The number of at-bats that passed the cut in this competition was 142 even par, with 67 people passed. Sergio Garcia (Spain) who hit 1 over par, 2 over par Bryson Dishambo (USA), 7 over par Lori McIlroy (Northern Ireland), 8 over par Justin Thomas (USA), and other top-notch players were eliminated.
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