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Seo Yo-seop and KPGA Shinhan Donghae Open 2R joint lead… Season 2 win challenge

Seo Yo-seop drives a driver’s tee shot at the 10th hole in the second round of the ’37th Shinhan Donghae Open’ held at Bear’s Best Cheongna GC in Incheon on the 10th. (Provided by Shinhan Financial Group) 2021.9.10/News1

(Seoul = News 1) Reporter Dae-hyun Moon = Seo Yo-seop (25, DB Insurance) took the lead on the second day of the Korea Professional Golf (KPGA) Korean Tour Shinhan Donghae Open (total prize money of 1.4 billion won).

In the second round of the tournament held at Bear’s Best Cheongna Golf Club (par 71, 6938 yards) in Incheon on the 10th, Seo Yoseob combined 5 birdies and 1 bogey to score 4 under par 67.

Seo Yo-seop, who recorded a 10-under par 132 in the interim total, jumped up to the joint lead from tied for third the day before. With Seo Yo-seop, Jo Min-gyu (33), Yoon Sang-pil (21, Play & Works), and Lee Tae-hoon (31, DB Insurance) are jointly in the lead.

Seo Yo-seop, who started on the 10th hole (par 4), had an uneasy start, but succeeded in making up for it with a birdie on the 11th hole (par 4). Seo Yo-seop, who was on the rise with a stepping-stone birdie on the 13th hole, added three more birdies to join the joint lead.

Seo Yo-seop, who competed for the lead until the second round in the previous event, the Bizplay Electronic Newspaper Open, slipped to a tie for sixth place due to lack of a back heart, and is challenging for the championship again in two months after the KPGA Championship last month.

After the match, Seo Yo-seop said, “I will use the experience of last week when I lost the score in the last round as a teacher. said.

Tae-Hoon Lee, who finished the first round with a joint lead the day before, kept his joint lead by reducing three more strokes with six birdies and three bogeys that day.

Taehoon Lee secured the KPGA Tour seed by winning the championship in 2017. In 2019, he took the top spot at the DB Insurance Promi Open, and is aiming for his third career win this week.

“Young blood” Yoon Sang-pil, who was in his second year of debut on the Korean Tour, wielded a savage strike that reduced six strokes only in the second round and joined the race for the championship at once.

Jo Min-gyu, who debuted on the KPGA Korean Tour in 2010, but has not yet won the domestic stage, also reduced five strokes that day and climbed to the joint lead.

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