3rd round reduced S-OIL Championship, I heard that there are players who fall for their male counterparts.
Nov 02, 2024
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Attention is focusing on the trend of the KLPGA (Korea Women's Professional Golf) Tour S-OIL Championship (total prize money of 900 million won and winning prize money of 162 million won), which was eventually reduced to a third round tournament amid heavy rain. The first round was completed on the 31st, but the second round schedule itself was eventually postponed due to rain all day on the 1st.
The postponed schedule will be held on the 2nd. However, it is unclear whether even this will be carried out normally. With a lot of rain forecast until this morning, the possibility of a delayed departure is still lurking.
The emotions of the players looking at the sky are complicated.
For players in the top 60 in the prize money rankings, anxiety is bound to increase. Through this competition, we need to raise the ranking and enter the top 60 to automatically secure the seed for next year's KLPGA Tour. If this goal is not achieved, the fate will be decided in the KLPGA 2025 regular tour seed round finals to be held at Muan CC from the 12th to the 15th.
The difference between the regular and dream tours (part 2) is the sky and the ground. For most players, the seed match is considered a stage that they don't want to go back to. It is not easy to concentrate every round in the extreme situation of staying and relegation. In the end, there is no choice but to be determined to participate in this tournament, which is a crossroads between securing seeds and ranking matches.
In the first round of the tournament, which took place on the 31st, Kim Soo-ji and Bang Shin-sil tied for the lead with 7-under 65. Ahn Sun-joo, Bae So-hyun and Lee Yoon-seo followed with 6 under par each. The expected cut of the first round is 1 under par. Depending on the results of the second round, the cut criteria may be higher or lower. The players are also expected to have deeper concerns about securing prize money and raising the ranking.
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