Dominant Performance: Hwang Yu-min Leads KLPGA Tour Doosan Engineering & Construction We’ve Championship

2024-04-06 09:44:00

Hwang Yu-min (21), who played bogey-free for three days, will start the final round of the domestic opening match of the 2024 Korea Ladies Professional Golf (KLPGA) Tour as the sole leader.

Hwang Yu-min is taking a tee shot on the 2nd hole of the 3rd round of the KLPGA Tour Doosan Engineering & Construction We’ve Championship held at Teddy Valley Golf & Resort in Jeju on the 6th./KLPGT

Hwang Yu-min caught only three birdies in the third round of the Doosan Construction We’ve Championship (total prize money of 1.2 billion won) held at Jeju Teddy Valley Golf & Resort (par 72, 6,685 yards) on the 6th. He recorded five birdies each in the first and second rounds, and hit a total of 203 strokes at 13 under par, two strokes ahead of Park Hye-jun (21), Kang Ji-seon (28), and Moon Jeong-min (22), who were tied for second place (11 under par).

Hwang Yu-min, who did not have a single bogey during the 54-hole match in the first to third rounds, will challenge for a ‘no bogey victory’ in the final round. There have been nine no-bogey wins on the KLPGA tour in the past, including Jeon Mi-jeong (42, 2003), Shin Ji-ae (36, 2008), Park Seong-hyun (31, 2016), and Park Seo-jin (25, 2019), all in the second or third round. It was a finished competition. If Hwang Yu-min does not record a bogey in the 4th round match on the 7th, he will become the first winner of a 4th round match without a bogey. Yumin Hwang made her KLPGA Tour debut last year and she won one game at the Dayou Winia/MBN Women’s Open in July.

There was also a crisis in Hwang Yu-min’s no-bogi march. On this day, while preparing for the second shot on the fairway of the 18th hole (par 4, 371 yards) in the third round, I dropped the range finder while trying to hand it to my caddy, and the range finder stopped right next to the ball. If the ball had moved due to the distance measuring device, a one-stroke penalty might have been incurred. The game committee, which read the video on the broadcast screen, ruled that the ball did not move.

Yumin Hwang is checking the green on the 8th hole in the third round of the KLPGA Tour Doosan Engineering & Construction We’ve Championship held at Teddy Valley Golf & Resort in Jeju on the 6th./KLPGT

Hwang Yu-min, who escaped the penalty crisis, hit a wedge shot with 94.1 yards left to the hole. As it took time for the decision to be made, the players in the same group had already finished putting. Hwang Yu-min’s shot with a 52-degree wedge hit 18cm into the hole, and the gallery erupted in exclamation. Hwang Yu-min finished the third round happily with a birdie on this hole.

Regarding the situation at the 18th hole, Hwang Yu-min said, “At first, I thought it would be good if I didn’t get a penalty, but I thought I should accept it because it happened because I didn’t come to my senses because of my mistake.” He added, “I made several mistakes with my wedge shot today (while waiting for the decision). “It was a time to organize my thoughts regarding wedge shots,” he said. Nicknamed the Stormtrooper for his aggressive play, he said, “I don’t care regarding a no-bogey record because not making bogeys is not my strategy.” He added, “If I try to play defensively, the game tends to not go well, so I look at my condition in the final round as well. “I will attack aggressively,” he said.

Ji-ae Shin of the Japan Tour, competing for the Paris Olympics, tied for 20th place (5 under par) alongside amateur Min-sol Kim (18). Bang Shin-sil (20) tied for 29th place (4 under par), Yoon Ina (21), who returned following 1 year and 9 months following being suspended for playing the wrong ball, tied for 40th place (2 under par), and defending champion and winner of the previous tournament, Lee Ye-won (21). was tied for 48th place (1 under par).

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