Bio Kim and Yo-seop Seo also tied for second place… Korean player championship competition
Tae-Hoon Ok (24) continued his hope of winning the Asian Professional Golf Tour International Series Tournament held in Korea for two days in a row.
Tae-Hoon Ok hit a 2-under par 69 with 5 birdies and 3 bogeys in the 3rd round of the Asian Tour International Series Korea (total prize money of $1.5 million) held at Lotte Skyhill CC (par 71, 7,79 yards) in Seogwipo-si, Jeju Island on the 20th.
Tae-Hoon Ok, with a 12-under par 201, took the lead.
It is one stroke behind the tied 2nd place, Kim Bio (32), Seo Yo-seop (26), and amateur Jo Woo-young (21).
Tae-Hoon Ok, who was tied for 12th with a 3-under par in the first round of this tournament, drove a 7-under par in the second round and took the lead with Bio Kim, and took the top of the leaderboard alone in the third round.
Tae-Hoon Ok, a veteran of the national team, has won the 2nd and 3rd division tours of the Korea Professional Golf Association (KPGA), but has not won the Korean Tour, which debuted in 2018.
This season, he entered the top 10 on the Korean Tour 6 times, tied for 1st in the top 10 finish category, and ranked 8th in prize money, so he is having the best season since his debut.
Tae-Hoon Ok, who started to watch the first hole (par 4) on the day, started to make birdies on the 3rd and 4th holes in a row and then made 5 birdies until the 14th hole.
It is a disappointing part to not be able to run further due to consecutive bogeys on the 17th to 18th holes at the last minute.
All three tied for second place following Ok Tae-hoon were also filled with Korean players, heralding a fierce competition for the championship on the last day.
In particular, amateur Jo Woo-young entered the competition for the championship with professional players in the terrifying rise of only 10 birdies on that day.
Jo Woo-young is a promising player who was selected as the men’s representative of the Hangzhou Asian Games scheduled for this year before the postponement.
Seo Yo-seop reduced 4 strokes and moved up from 4th place the previous day to tied for 2nd, and Kim Bio, who was tied for the 2nd round, tied for 3rd in the Asian Tour season prize money, was pushed down to 2nd place by only reducing one stroke.
Phachara Kongwatmai and Pawit Tangkamolprasert (Thailand) tied for 5th (10-under 203 strokes), and Jeon Jae-han (32) tied for 8th place (8-under-par 205 strokes) with Justin Harding (South Africa). .
Wang Jeong-hoon (27), Kang Yun-seok (36), and Lee Seung-taek (27) were tied for 10th (7-under 206 strokes).
Bae Yong-joon (22) is tied for 16th (6 under par 207) with Chase Kepka (USA) and Jazz Watananon (Thailand), while Ham Ham (28) and Kim Han-byul (26) are tied for 24th (5 under par 208). .
/yunhap news