Lee Jung-eun 5 tied for 4th place in 2R of the LPGA Riviera Maya Open..."Top 10" challenge for the first time in 4 years
Lee Jung-eun 5 tied for 4th place in 2R of the LPGA Riviera Maya Open..."Top 10" challenge for the first time in 4 years
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Veteran Lee Jung-eun 5 (37) jumped to a tie for fourth place in the second round of the Riviera Maya Open (total prize money of $2.5 million) of the LPGA Tour.
Lee Jung-eun 5 tied 6 birdies and 2 bogeys on the second day of the tournament at El Chameleon Golf Course (par 72) in Playa del Carmen, Mexico on the 24th (Korea time) to write a 4-under 68.
Lee Jung-eun 5, who became an interim total of 4-under 140, raised her ranking from 18th place the previous day to fourth place.
She is two strokes ahead of Jenny Bae (USA, 6-under 138).
Lee Jung-eun is a veteran player who has been playing on the LPGA tour since 2015. However, she has never won a championship on the LPGA tour, and has not displayed any significant performance since the 2020s.
Lee Jung-eun's last "top 10" on the LPGA tour was in 2021. She was the runner-up at the Portland Classic in September 2021. She has never had a "top 10" in three years and eight months since then.
Lee Jung-eun 5, who played in three tournaments this season and tied for 20th place at the LA Championship in April, is aiming for the top performance for the first time in a long time.
Lee Jung-eun 5 got off to a shaky start, recording two bogeys first, but stopped the first half with three birdies and three even-pars.
Since then, he has displayed endurance. Starting with birdies at the 15th hole (par 3), he has garnered birdies at the 17th hole (par 4) and the 18th hole (par 5), and has elevated his ranking.
Choi Hye-jin (26) and Shin Ji-eun (33) also tied for fourth place.
Choi Hye-jin added 1 under par, and Shin Ji-eun, who started joint-leading the previous day, recorded even par to mark a total of 4 under par side by side.
Kang Hye-ji (35) and Jeon Ji-won (27) tied for 16th at 1-under 143 in interim total.
Yoon Na-na (22), who had high expectations, eventually failed to make the cut.
Yoon Na-na, who had only four over par in the first round, had three birdies on the day, but added one over par with four bogeys to tie for 67th with a total of five over par.
Yoon Na-na announced her prospect of passing the cut by recording 2 under par through the 15th hole, but she collapsed with three consecutive bogeys from the 16th hole (par 4) to the 18th hole (par 5) at the last minute.
The last-minute slump was even more painful because it was just one stroke short of the cut Maginot line of four overs. 온라인바카라
Yoon Na-na is preparing for the U.S. Women's Open, a major tournament, to be held next week.