Tae-Hoon Ok “I pondered for a while how to hit the 18th hole tee shot”
Jo Min-gyu (34), who won two victories on the Japan Professional Golf Tour (JGTO), got his first chance to win on the domestic stage.
Cho Min-kyu tied for first place with a 5-under 208 stroke until the third round of the Kolon 64th Korea Open Golf Championship (total prize money of 1.35 billion won) held at Woojung Hills Country Club (par 71, 7,326 yards) in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do on the 25th.
In an interview after the game, Jo Min-gyu said, “The weather was hot and the course was difficult, so I was thinking not to just over par.
Jo Min-gyu, who won the JGTO once in 2011 and 2016, said, “I have lost my Japan tour card because of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), so I have lost my Japanese tour card. He continued to appear in Korean competitions.”
Regarding the wind and pin location that day, he said, “The wind was not difficult thanks to the know-how of experiencing various weather in Japan. said.
He, who will be active on the KPGA Korean Tour this season, said, “After this season is over, I may try again on the Asian Tour or JGTO, but I’m thinking about it now. I want to play happy golf anywhere.”
He added, “I think it’s meaningful because if I win the Korean Open, which is a national title, it will be meaningful even after I retire.”
Regarding the strategy on the last day, he predicted, “If you don’t care about the final round or my ranking, and do ‘probability golf’ with high probability rather than trying to do anything in particular, then good results will come out tomorrow.”
Tae-Hoon Ok (24), the co-leader with Min-Kyu Jo, looked back at the match on the day, saying, “I started off with the first hole and didn’t feel good, but luckily, I changed my mind with a birdie on the 7th hole, which is a difficult par 3”.
In particular, Tae-Hoon Ok faced a crisis on the last hole (par 5) on the 18th hole (par 5), where he and Min-Kyu Jo were tied for first place, and the ball went to the fairway on the 17th hole, which is the next hole.
Tae-Hoon Ok said, “I think it was more comfortable to hit the second shot because it didn’t hit anything like a tree and flew all the way to the fairway on the 17th hole. could be kept,” he explained.
Like Jo Min-gyu, Ok Tae-hoon, who has not yet won a championship on the domestic stage, said, “I have the desire to win, but if I play well without thinking about what I’ve been doing so far, the results will follow.”
/yunhap news
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