[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Kim Yong-seok = The Korea Women’s Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) held the ‘2021 KLPGA Grand Prize Ceremony’ at the Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 30th. At this event, there was an award for the ‘Winners Club’, which only players who recorded their first regular tour wins in their careers can join.
This season, Bomi Kwak (29, High1 Resort), Jinhee Lim (23, K Drive), Yeseong Jeon (20, GTG Wellness), Suji Kim (25, Dongbu Construction), and Gaeun Song (21, MG Saemaeul Geumgo), a total of 5 winners joined the ‘club’. We will tell the story of the women who ran to win the championship, each with their own various stories in their hearts.
| Song Ga-eun joined the Winners Club. [사진= KLPGA] |
▲ The only rookie to join the ‘Winners Club’ and Ga-eun Song who even won the Rookie of the Year award
In the ‘Hana Financial Group Championship’, the tournament with the largest amount of prize money on this year’s tour, Song Ga-eun beat veteran players and lifted the trophy for the first time in her career after overtime. Song Ga-eun, who obtained 310 points for the Rookie of the Year award through this win, not only joined the ‘Winners Club’ but also received the Rookie of the Year award.
Ga-eun Song, who even won the ‘Winner’s Club’ and ‘Rookie Award’, said, “I am happy to attend the awards ceremony through the once-in-a-lifetime Rookie of the Year award and victory. I still have a lot to learn. Next year, I will try another title category and attend the awards ceremony again.” promised
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| Jeon Ye-seong posing. [사진= KLPGA] |
▲ Jeon Ye-seong, who grew into a bigger player by taking advantage of last year’s disappointment
Jeon Ye-seong, born in 2002, is the youngest player to win this year. Jeon Ye-seong, who had already stepped on the regular tour stage in the 2020 season, had a rookie season without any particular harvest, and was ranked 61st with only 568,333 won difference from Kwak Bo-mi, who was ranked 60th in the prize money ranking at the time, and participated in the ‘KLPGA 2021 regular tour seed ranking match’. I was faced with a bitter situation that had to be done.
Jeon Ye-seong, who won the first championship in the new competition ‘Ever Collagen Queen’s Crown 2021’, said, “I always wanted to join the ‘Winners Club’ someday, and I am very honored to join this way. I will work hard to participate in the grand prize ceremony every year during my career as a player. I will,” he said.
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| Bomi Kwak, the first winner in 11 years, joined the Winners Club. [사진= KLPGA] |
▲ Hot tears and emotions conveyed by Kwak Bo-mi, 11 years old
Bomi Kwak, who joined the group in 2010 and built up her skills on the Dream Tour, first stepped on the stage of the regular tour in 2012. However, Bomi Kwak’s tour life was not smooth. Bomi Kwak, who ranked 91st in the prize money ranking in the first season of the regular tour, continued to go back and forth between the Dream Tour and the regular tour.
Bomi Kwak, who was once contemplating retirement, won the first round of the ‘7th Kyochon Honey Ladies Open’ with a thrilling victory for the first time in 11 years.
Bomi Kwak said, “I won my first win this year, but it was a year with a lot of regret. Next year, I will show you a better image than this year.”
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| Kim Su-ji, who has won two career victories this year alone. [사진= KLPGA] |
▲ Now, Kim Su-ji, who has emerged as ‘0th place to win’ in name and reality
Kim Su-ji is also a player who took the ‘KLPGA 2021 regular tour seed ranking match’ last year. Kim Suji, who entered the regular tour in 2017, showed steady results until 2019 and was ranked within 60th in the prize money ranking, but lost the seed right to 84th in the 2020 season.
Kim Soo-ji, who came back after going through the seed rankings of hell, showed a very different appearance from last year. After winning their first win at the ’10th KG-Edaily Ladies Open’, they won the second season at the ’21st Hite Jinro Championship’.
Kim Su-ji said, “Thanks to many people this year, I completely focused on the game, and I am honored and happy to join the ‘Winners Club’ through the win. I think I had the best year of the year.”
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| Jinhee Im joined the Winners Club. [사진= KLPGA] |
▲ Im Jin-hee, who escaped from the unknown at once
Jinhee Lim, who joined in 2016, won the Jump Tour and entered the Dream Tour the following year. Lim Jin-hee, who also went on a regular tour and a dream tour, won the ‘BC Card-Hankyung Ladies Cup 2021’ for the first time in her life.
Lim Jin-hee said, “The awards ceremony is where celebrities and sports stars attend, and I feel like a public figure when I actually participate in the awards ceremony. I’m very happy.”
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