Seo Kyo-rim became the first player to win four times on the Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour this season, claiming the BC Card-Hankyung Ladies Championship on Sunday.
Seo shot a 2-over 74 with two birdies and four bogeys in the final round at Pocheon Hills Country Club in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province. She finished at 8-under 280 and defeated Kim Min-sol in a playoff to win the season’s second major championship.
Seo made a birdie on the first playoff hole to secure the title and the 270 million won ($204,000) winner’s prize.
The victory was Seo’s fourth of the season, following wins at the Celltrion Queens Masters, Inka Finance The Heaven Masters and Mediheal-Hankook Ilbo Championship. She won all three tournaments in June and last week.
Seo, who joined the KLPGA Tour last year and was named rookie of the year without a victory, now leads the tour in wins. She remains first in the standings at 490 points.
Her victory moved her season earnings to 1,286,800,000 won, narrowly overtaking Kim, who had led the money list through last week with 1,286,600,000 billion won.
Seo and Kim, both born in 2006, had emerged as the tour’s leading two players after each won three times this season. They competed in the final group for the second straight week, with Seo again coming out on top.
Starting the final round with a three-shot lead, Seo quickly saw her advantage disappear. She bogeyed the third and fifth holes before dropping another shot on the seventh after her second shot found a penalty area.
Kim, who began the round three shots behind, took the outright lead with a 6-foot birdie putt on the eighth hole. Seo fell two shots behind after another wayward approach on the par-5 10th.
(This article was produced with the assistance of AI. — Ed.)
