Lee Da-yeon KLPGA Championship, 7th overall
win, Park Gye-kyul and Son Ye-bin tied for 2nd place, Kim A-rim 22nd placeIt is the ‘gorgeous comeback show’ of Lee Da-yeon of ‘Otttukgi’.
Lee Da-yeon won the first major Chris F&C 45th KLPGA Championship (total prize money of 1.3 billion won) of the 2023 season of the Korean Women’s Professional Golf (KLPGA) Tour, which ended on the 30th at the Lakewood Country Club Mountain Road and Forest Course (par 72, 6570 yards) in Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi-do. In the 4th round, he drove 4 under par, resulting in a 4-stroke victory (13 under par, 275 strokes). She is the 7th win in her career, which she won 1 year and 8 months after winning the major Hanwha Classic in 2021, and her winning prize is 234 million won.ㅋㅋㅋ벳
Following the 2019 Korea Women’s Open, Lee Da-yeon took a step closer to the ‘Career Grand Slam’ by winning her third win in major tournaments only. Lee Da-yeon said, “I didn’t think she would win the championship so quickly. I planned to improve her performance by summer, but her performance came out to a surprise even to me.”
Lee Da-yeon ruptured her left elbow and wrist ligaments last year and she ended her season after only playing 10 tournaments. I couldn’t even go to her training camp because I was busy with her rehabilitation. It wasn’t until about a month before her opening game in Korea that she started practicing her full swing. However, after her return, only in the fourth tournament she participated in, she won a major tournament and joined the KLPGA tour’s strongest man competition.
She tied for second place (9 under par, 279 strokes), the best result of the year, with Park Gyeol adding 2 under par. Son Ye-bin is also part of this group. Rookie Bang Shin-sil was sluggish with a 1-over par, and was pushed to a tie for 4th place (8 under par, 280 strokes). Lee So-young tied for 4th, Lee Ye-won 6th (7 under par 281 strokes), and Choi Ye-rim 7th (6 under par 282 strokes). Defending champion Kim A-lim finished the tournament with a tie for 22nd (2 under par 286 strokes).