LPGA Korean 女 Golfers Reversed Ranking?...No. 128 Yoo Hae-ran, No. 104 Kim Hyo-joo's 'Cut-off Crisis' vs. No. 4 Jeon In-ji and Lee Jung-eun 6's 'Top 10 Challenge'
LPGA Korean 女 Golfers Reversed Ranking?...No. 128 Yoo Hae-ran, No. 104 Kim Hyo-joo's 'Cut-off Crisis' vs. No. 4 Jeon In-ji and Lee Jung-eun 6's 'Top 10 Challenge'
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Among Korean female golfers who play in the U.S. Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour, Yoo Hae-ran is ranked ninth in the world. The second highest is Kim Hyo-joo, ranked 12th in the world.
Yoo Hae-ran is the lowest ranked Korean female golfer on the first day of the LPGA Tour's JM Eagle LA Championship at El Caballero Country Club (par 72) in Los Angeles, California on the 18th (Korea time). With one birdie, one bogey and one double bogey, she recorded a 2-over 74 to rank 128th along with Park Sung-hyun and Park Geum-gang. Kim Hyo-joo, who exchanged three birdies and three bogeys, also tied for 104th (even par 72) to worry about the cutoff.
Ironically, the two players, who are currently the "one-two punch" of Korean women's golf, were sluggish, but the two players, who had been sluggish, flew much higher.
Jeon In-ji, who is currently ranked 245th in the world, and Lee Jung-eun, who remains at 223rd, performed well as tied for fourth place by shooting 7-under 65.
Jeon once failed to make the cut in two competitions this year, and only ranked 72nd in one competition. She only earned 4,425 U.S. dollars (134th). Jeon, however, blocked one bogey and garnered eight birdies on the day.
Lee Jung-eun 6 also got off to a strong start by tying for 13th at the 메이저사이트 Founders Cup, her first competition this year, but she has been performing poorly since then, tying for 48th and eliminating the cut. Lee Jung-eun 6, who is currently ranked 75th in prize money ($37,469), aimed properly at her first "top 10" of the season by reducing seven pars with one eagle, seven birdies and two bogeys. Shin Ji-eun, who is ranked 67th in the world, also performed well with 7-under 65, and Ko Jin-young and Lee So-mi, who are good at shots this year, also got off to a good start, tying for 15th with 5-under 67.
On the day, 15 out of 21 Korean players performed so well that they were within the expected cut line (62nd place with 2-under 70. Rookie Yoon In-na, who had five birdies, one bogey and one double bogey, tied for 62nd.
Ashley Buhai (South Africa) and Liu Yan (China) tied for the lead with a 9-under 63 each, while Frida Synalt (Sweden) finished the first round in third place by one stroke.
World No. 1 Nelly Korda of the U.S. also got off to a good start, tying for 15th with a 5-under 67.