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Korean players including Lim Seong-jae, An Byeong-hoon, Kim Si-woo, and Kim Joo-hyung are also challenging for the championship.
Scotty Scheffler
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Dong-chan = Scotty Scheffler (USA), who won the 88th Masters Tournament held as the first major tournament of the season, will participate in the RBC Heritage PGA Tour (total prize money of 20 million won ), which opens on the 18th (Korea time).
The RBC Heritage, held at Harbourtown Golf Links (par 71, 7,213 yards) on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA, is this year’s fifth PGA Tour signature tournament.
The PGA Tour’s signature tournament is a special tournament held eight times a year with a total prize money of $20 million (about KRW 27.7 billion), and world-class tournaments such as the top 50 in last season’s FedEx Cup rankings, the top 30 in the world rankings, and the winner of this year’s tour tournament It is a platform where players compete against each other.
The strongest candidate to win this tournament is Scheffler, the Masters champion and world number one, who finished 15th.
Schaeffler has shown his overwhelming skills, winning three times and finishing second once in the four competitions he has taken part in recently.
Schaeffler, who had hinted at the possibility of withdrawing from the Masters tournament as his wife is about to give birth, is tipped that the timing of his wife’s birth will be a deciding factor in whether he wins this tournament too.
Schaeffler, who is showing his peak skills to the extent that he has never had an over-par round in nine competitions this season, had reached 11th place in this competition last year.
Jordan Spieth
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Last year, at the RBC Heritage, Matt Fitzpatrick (England) won the overtime match against Jordan Spieth (USA).
Fitzpatrick’s best result since winning this competition last year came second in the BMW Championship in August last year.
Spieth, who missed the cut at the Masters this year, showed a particularly strong performance in this tournament, winning in 2022 and finishing second last year.
In addition to Spieth, other players who missed the cut at the Masters include Im Seong-jae, who is aiming for a rebound in this tournament.
Lim Seong-jae, who tied for 7th place in this tournament last year, will return home after finishing this tournament to participate in the Korea Professional Golf Tour (KPGA) Woori Finance Championship, which will be held in Yeoju, Gyeonggi- yes at four. days starting on the 24th.
Seongjae Lim
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Ludwig Overy (Sweden), who finished second in this year’s Masters, is also a player to watch.
Overy, born in 1999, who won one championship, one runner-up, and one DP World Tour win on the PGA Tour last year, finished second in his major tournament debut.
In addition to Seong-jae Lim, Korean players include Byeong-hoon An, Si-woo Kim, and Joo-hyung Kim, who also participated in the Masters.
Byung-Hoon An performed well at the Masters, tied for 16th place, while Si-Woo Kim and Joo-Hyung Kim tied for 30th place.
For players not eligible to participate in the RBC Heritage, the Corales Punta Cana Championship (total prize money of $4 million) will be held during the same period at the Punta Cana Hotel and Club (par 72, 7,670 yards) in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Bae Sang-moon, Kang Seong-hoon, Kim Seong-hyun, and Lee Gyeong-hoon will participate in this competition.
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