(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Dongchan Kim = Siwoo Kim (27) tied for 23rd in the second round of the PGA Tour RBC Heritage (total prize money of $8 million).
Si-woo Kim reduced one stroke to four birdies and three bogeys in the second round of the tournament held at Harbortown Golf Links (par 71, 7,121 yards) in Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA on the 16th (Korean time).
Si-woo Kim, who shot a 3-under par 139 in the middle, tied for 23rd and turned the turning point of the tournament. With a 9-under 133 shot, it is six shots behind the solo leader Patrick Cantlay (USA).
In 2018, Si-woo Kim, who finished runner-up following overtime, exchanged two birdies and two bogies in the first nine holes.
He put a birdie putt over 5m on the 15th hole (par 5), but immediately missed a short par putt on the 16th hole (par 4) and lost at-bats.
Kim Si-woo, who once more sent a tee shot on the 17th hole (par 3) to regarding 1.5 m and caught a birdie, missed another 2 m par putt on the 18th hole (par 4), and ended the first half with an even par.
Si-woo Kim, who lost the number of strokes on the 1st hole (par 4) and recorded bogeys for two consecutive holes, reduced by one stroke at the remaining two par 5 holes, the 2nd and 5th holes, and finished the second round with an under-par score.
Last season’s FedEx Cup champion Cantlay took the lead by two strokes, and is challenging for seven tour victories for the first time in seven months since the Tour Championship in September last year.
Cantlay had four birdies in a row on the last four holes. Cantlay, who took the lead with Robert Strept (USA) as a birdie on the 16th hole (par 4), also decorated the 17th and 18th holes with birdies in a row, beating Strept by two strokes.
Strept (USA) ranked second with a 7-under 135 shot, and Cameron Tringalley (USA), who earned the most money without a win on the PGA Tour, tied for third with a 6-under 136 shot.
Tringali appeared in 324 PGA Tour tournaments and finished runners-up four times without winning a championship.
His career prize money is 16,389,256 dollars (regarding 20.15 billion won), the most among players without a championship.
This season, he has been hovering around the championship titles, such as tied for 2nd at the Jojo Championship in October of last year and tied for 3rd at the Farmers Insurance Open in January of this year.
Im Seong-jae (24) tied for 34th with a 2-under-par 140.
Kang Sung-hoon (35) missed the cut with 1-over par 143, and Lee Kyung-hoon (31) 4-over par 146.
World No. 1 Dustin Johnson (USA) from South Carolina and Cameron Smith (Australia), who tied for third at the Masters last week, also shot a 1-over par 143, failing to pass the cut by one stroke.
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