Song Ga-Eun is being put in the 10th hole of the second day of the DB Group Korea Open Women’s Open. Photo of the group DB Group Korea Women’s Open Organizing Committee
(Asia Economy Reporter No Woo-Rae) ○… The recruit song of the year of last year Ga-Eun (22 years old) made its very first hole in one.
This happened on the 17th hole (by 3, 174 yards) during the second round of the DB Group Korea Women’s Open, a major event on the KLPGA tour with a total price of 1.2 billion won, held the 17th at the Rainbow Hills Golf Club in Eumseong, Chungbuk (by 72, 6,763 yards). She struck a 5-Fer shot which was swallowed by the hole. Although she made a hole in one during a training session in a training camp three years ago, it was her first in an official tournament.
“I targeted 158 meters in the pin and hitting an iron to 5,” said Song Ga-Eun. “Since the pin was hidden in the area, I thought I would just make the ball on the green and that I was aiming for the center of the green, but the ball rolled along the slope. I did not see the ball enter, but I heard the cheers of the gallery standing behind the green and I realized that it was a hole in one,” she exclaimed. The price of the hole in one on this hole was an Audi e-tron electric car worth around 100 million won.
Last October, Song Ga-Eun won the Championship of the financial group Hana after a fierce battle that went to the third hole in a playoff series, defeating the American female champion ‘Minjee Lee (Australia). The winner’s prize was 270 million won. “I ordered a car to offer my father to celebrate the victory, but it has not yet been delivered,” she said with a bright smile. “I will give him the car that I received as a hole price in one.” That day, Song Ga-Eun recorded five birdies, three Bogeys and a double bogey, finishing two strokes under the peer.
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