Jangta Saetbyul' Bang Sinsil wins second KLPGA season in a row
Korean Women's Professional Golf (KLPGA) Tour rookie Bang Shin-sil, 19, won her second title of the season in less than four months.
Bang carded seven birdies and one bogey in the final round of the Dongbu E&C-Korea Land Trust Championship (total prize money: 1 billion won) at Iksan Country Club (Par 72) in Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, on Friday to finish with a total of 43 points. The Dongbu E&C Korea Land Trust Championship is played using a modified Stableford format that awards eight points for albatrosses, five points for eagles and two points for birdies, and deducts one point for bogeys and three points for double bogeys or worse. 카지노사이트777
Bang's victory was her first since winning her professional debut at the E1 Charity Open in May. She is the only rookie to win two events this season. It is the first time in four years that a KLPGA Tour rookie has won multiple titles since Im Hee-jung (three) in 2019.
With her win, she earned 180 million won and moved into 10th place on the season's money list (622.56 million won). He also moved up to 10th place in the grand prize points (348). However, he remained in third place in Rookie of the Year points (2039), behind Kim Minbyul (2526) and Hwang Yoo-min (2328).
Bang, who has been impressing in her debut season with her long drives (average drive distance of 263.67 yards - first in the division), said after the match, "I played in the championship group, but I didn't think about winning, I just wanted to play my best. I just put my mind down and did my best shot after shot, and this is what happened." "I was surprised to see so many people in the gallery when I entered the first hole," she said of the support she received, "and it made it more fun and focused to play with so many people cheering for me. Second place went to Isomi Lee (34 points) and third place to Sooji Kim (32 points).
Meanwhile, at the Korean Professional Golf Association (KPGA) Korean Tour Genesis Championship ($1.5 billion in prize money), veteran Park Sang-hyun won the title (17-under par 271) in a playoff with Lim Sung-jae and Bae Yong-joon. He took home 300 million won, becoming the first player in Korean Tour history to earn 5 billion won in career earnings.