21-year-old Lee Ye-won’s ‘No Boge’ season’s 3rd win Grand Prize – Prize Money – Most Wins Leader
Sh Suhyup Bank won the MBN Women’s Open, started in 4th place in the final R, and successfully came from behind to win 3 times last year. Kim Min-gyu, pushed out by Lim Jin-hee in multiple wins , wins his second career win in a descent match
Lee Ye-won is holding up the championship trophy after reaching the top of the Korea Ladies Professional Golf (KLPGA) Tour Sh Suhyup Bank MBN Women’s Open held at The Star Hue Golf & Resort in Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do on the 2nd.
Lee Ye-won (21), in her third year on the Korea Ladies Professional Golf (KLPGA) Tour, is making the 2024 season ‘Yewon World’. This season, he took the lead in the grand prize, prize money, and multiple wins.
Lee Ye-won won eight birdies without bogeys in the final third round of the KLPGA Tour Sh Suhyup Bank MBN Women’s Open held at The Star Hue Golf & Resort (par 72) in Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do on the 2nd, and reached the top with a final total of 14 under par and 202 strokes. . She trailed Kim Min-sun and Hwang Yu-min, who tied for second place, by three strokes. The winning prize is 180 million won. Lee Ye-won stood at the top three weeks after the NH Investment & Securities Ladies Championship, which ended on the 12th of last month, and achieved her third win of the season and sixth on the tour. Yewon Lee did not record a bogey throughout the tournament and was also named the 10th no-bogey winner on the tour. In the third round, she tied her course record (over 18 holes) with an 8-under-par 64.
Lee Ye-won took first place in multiple wins (3 wins), grand prize (249 points), and prize money (approximately 644.63 million won). Ye-won Lee won three times last year and won three awards (grand prize, top prize money, and lowest number of strokes), but she was pushed out by Jin-hee Lim (4 wins) in most wins, and is showing her desire to win the title with the most wins this season. This year’s KLPGA Tour featured 11 of a total of 30 tournaments, with Lee Ye-won winning three times out of the nine tournaments she entered. Her all-time record for most wins in a season is 9 wins, recorded by Ji-ae Shin in 2007.
Lee Ye-won, who finished the second round in a tie for 4th place, 2 strokes behind leader Lee Dong-eun (8 under par), improved to a tie for 2nd place (10 under par) by reducing 4 strokes in the first 9 holes. Defending champion Hwang Yu-min, who was in the lead with 11 under par, recorded a triple bogey due to two tee shot mistakes in the 9th hole (par 4), and Lee Ye-won became tied for the lead with Sung Yu-jin. Lee Ye-won, who became the sole leader at 11 under par with a birdie on the 11th hole (par 4), broke the will of her competitors to chase with three consecutive birdies on holes 13 to 15. Rookie Lee Dong-eun, who was the sole leader, finished the tournament in a tie for 7th place (7 under par, 209 strokes).
Yewon Lee said, “Rather than being greedy, I tried to play with confidence. “I feel good because I got my third win of the season faster than I expected,” he said with a smile. He said, “I am happy to finish the tournament with a no bogey. As my short putt improved, not making mistakes led to no bogeys. “As my goal was to get one more win than last year (3 wins), I will achieve 4 wins and then think about my next goal again,” he said.
Yewon Lee plans to play in the Lotte Open in the first week of July and then participate in the Amundi Evian Championship, a major tournament on the LPGA Tour held in France the following week. This is my first challenge on the LPGA Tour.
On this day, Min-gyu Kim (23, photo) won the Korea Professional Golf (KPGA) Tour Descent Korea Match Play held at Kingsdale Golf Club (par 72) in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province. Min-gyu Kim finished the match with a birdie after the second overtime in the final against Anyang Shinsung Middle School classmate Jo Woo-young (23). Min-gyu Kim recorded his second tour win in two years since the Korea Open in June 2022 and earned 160 million won in prize money. 스포츠토토
