A 19-year-old rookie long shot girl who was not discouraged by her winning sisters, but the professional world
Jun 09, 2025
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Is this the record of a senior player who has won. Lee Ga-young showed his senior's true face to the spirited 19-year-old rookie.
Lee Ga-young lifted the trophy after a neck-and-neck race to the second extension at the KLPGA Tour Celltrion Queens Masters, which ended at Sungmunan CC in Wonju, Gangwon-do on the 8th. Three wins in his career.
It was dramatic. Lee Ga-young finished the game at 12-under par with 19-year-old rookie Kim Si-hyun. Even if Han Jin-sun kept par on the par-5 18th hole, he won, but he failed to make a short par putt of 1.5m and entered the extension.
Lee Ga-young became the last winner with a fantastic game of attaching two consecutive third-shot approaches to the hole 1.5m in the first and second extra holes that followed in the same hole.
It was a victory of strategy. Lee Ga-young played the first to third rounds and realized that he had to take a wedge full shot on the 18th hole, where the green was formed as an uphill from the entrance, so that he could make an uphill putt without crossing the pin. He was able to hit the second shot farther both times, but he left his favorite distance and won the game with an accurate wedge shot.
What was fun was the first hole in the extension with Kim Si-hyun, who was full of energy. Kim Si-hyun did a very powerful tee shot practice swing as if she was trying to kill her sisters' energy. He succeeded in a 260-yard driver tee shot. Lee Ga-young went 252 yards and Han Jin-sun 234 yards.
Unlike her two older sisters, who are customized for third shots, Kim Si-hyun also swung the third wood vigorously on the fairway. He hit a whopping 235 yards from the uphill slope, but the ball fell at the beginning of the green with about 30 yards left to the hole. In fact, Tuon was an impossible distance.
In fact, it should be seen that it is advantageous for professional players to approach short distances by staying as far away as possible. But that also depends on the situation. Kim Si-hyun's ball fell on the right side of the green, and the flagpole was stuck on the uphill and downhill slopes on this day. You may wonder what it would have been like to shoot directly toward the pin, but the left side has a bunker and a penalty area, so it was a safe choice to attack on the right side.
The problem was the shape of an oblique line when looking at the hole cup from the ball. If you hit it to the left, it looks like it will flow downhill, and if you hit it to the right, it's a difficult situation to leave a downhill putt. Perhaps because of that, Kim Si-hyun failed to confidently take a short approach and made a mistake, leaving a putt of more than 6m. And was eliminated in the first overtime.
After winning, Lee Ga-young tried to leave a full shot of about 90m at the 18th hole. I focused only on that because I had to take a full shot as much as possible so there was no run, he introduced the secret.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
