Lim Seong-jae ranked in the top 5 with ‘a new record for the most birdies in one tournament’ at the opening game of the 2024 season of the American Professional Golf (PGA) Tour.Seongjae Lim swept 11 birdies in the final 4th round of the PGA Tour The Sentry (total prize money of $20 million) held at the Plantation Course (par 73, 7,596 yards) in Kapalua, Maui Island, Hawaii, USA on the 8th (Korean time). He blocked it with one and hit 63 strokes, 10 under par.Lim Seong-jae, who recorded a final total of 25 under par and 267 strokes, finished the tournament in a tie for 5th place with world number one Scotty Scheffler (USA).He was 4 strokes behind the winner, Chris Kirk (USA, 29 under par, 263 strokes).
This tournament is the first tournament of the 2024 season of the PGA Tour, which returned to the single-year system that starts in January and ends in the fall.Last year, only the winners of the previous year’s tour competition and players who participated in the Tour Championship, the final round of the playoffs, were eligible to participate, but this year, players in the top 50 of the FedEx Cup rankings were also eligible to participate, and a total of 59 players competed for four days.Seongjae Lim, who was in the top 10 nine times in the 2022-2023 season, raised expectations by achieving top results from the first competition of the new season.
In particular, Seongjae Lim recorded a total of 34 birdies in this tournament, including 9 in the first round, 8 in the second round, 6 in the third round, and 11 in the final round of the day, the most in a 72-hole tournament since 1983, when related records were compiled on the PGA Tour. A new birdie record was set.Previously, the highest number of 32 was written by Jon Lam (Spain) and others in this competition in 2022, but Seongjae Lim increased the number by two in this competition.
Lim Seong-jae, who started the game in good spirits with consecutive birdies in holes 1 to 3 on this day, recorded the only bogey in hole 4 (par 4), but played unwaveringly after that.There were consecutive birdies in holes 12 to 15, and a 2m putt in the 14th hole (par 4), which tied the PGA Tour record with the 32nd birdie of this tournament, followed by a two-on, two-putt birdie in the 15th hole (par 5). A new record was created by adding .Then, he saved one 카지노사이트킹 more stroke in the final 18th hole (par 5), making it a perfect finish.