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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-a = Kim Jong-deok (60) won the Korea Professional Golf (KPGA) Senior Championship (total prize money of 150 million won) and achieved 30 professional victories.
Kim Jong-deok competed with three players with a total of 5 under par 139 until the second round of the KPGA Champions Tour Owners K 25th Senior Championships, which ended on the 20th at the Kyle Phillips Course (par 72, 6,694 yards) at the South Lynx Yeongam Country Club in Yeongam, Jeollanam-do. After a tie, they won by winning overtime. The prize money for the winner is 2,400,000 won.
Kim Jong-deok, who had 29 wins in his career, including 9 wins on the KPGA Korean Tour, 11 wins on the Champions Tour, 4 wins on the Japan Professional Golf Tour (JGTO), 4 wins on the Japan Senior Tour, and 1 win on the Taiwan Senior Tour, reported his first win this season. He broke the 30-game winning streak.
In this tournament, which was reduced to 36 holes due to bad weather, he finished tied for ninth by hitting 2 under par 70 in the first round.
In the first overtime at the 18th hole (par 4, 410 yards), Lee Jong-ok (56) and Lee Young-jun (59) turned to double bogey and bogey, respectively, and Jong-deok Kim, who kept the par in the second overtime at the same hole, putts Park Young-soo (52), who could not put the .
In a broadcast interview after the game, Kim Jong-duk said, “I was worried that I might not be able to do it because I couldn’t take advantage of the opportunity several times before the 30th win, but it feels good to be able to fill it up on my 60th birthday.”
Meanwhile, Cho Cheol-sang (63) took the top spot at the 22nd KPGA Grand Senior Championships (total prize money of 40 million won, winning prize money 6 million won), which was held at the same place with players over 60 years old.
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