Lim Seong-jae, 22, ranked second on the second day of the Tour Championship in the final match of the FedEx Cup Playoffs in the PGA Tour 2019-2020 season.
Lim Sung-jae hit 6 under par 64 with 7 birdies and 1 bogie in the second round held at East Lake Golf Club (par 70, 7,319 yards) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on the 6th (Korean time).
The 6-under par is the lowest hit score recorded by participating players this day.
Lim Sung-jae, who recorded a 12-under par in the middle, is running in second place alone, chasing closely behind Dustin Johnson (USA), the world's first leader, by one stroke.
If Lim Seong-jae wins this competition, which only advances to the 30th place in the FedEx Cup point ranking, he will be awarded a bonus prize of $15 million (approximately 17.8 billion won) while becoming the FedEx Cup champion in the 2019-2020 season.
The runner-up will receive a bonus prize of $5 million (approximately 5,950 million won), and will win $395,000 even in the bottom of the 30th place.
Lim Seong-jae, who once ran No. 1 in the FedEx Cup point rankings, suffered a decline after the tour was stopped due to a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
Lim Sung-jae, 22 years old and 5 months old, is also challenging to win the second youngest ever in the Tour Championship.
Jordan Spice (USA), who won this competition in 2015, is two months older than her age at the time.
The possibility of breaking the best Korean players in the FedEx Cup playoffs has also increased.
In the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which was founded in 2007, Koreans' best performance was 5th place in 2007 by Choi Kyung-joo, 50.
In the 2019-2020 season, when he won the Rookie of the Year, Lim Sung-jae was a tie for 19th in the Tour Championship.
The Tour Championship started the first round with bonus at-bats to players in advance according to the ranking of the FedEx Cup until the second playoff, the BMW Championship.
Lim Seong-jae, 9th in the FedEx Cup ranking, started off with a bonus of 4 under par.
So, in the first round, he hit a 2-under par 68, but added the bonus at-bats to a 6-under par.
In the second round, the flow was better.
The driving accuracy was 71.43% and the green hit rate reached 88.89%, so the shot was good.
In the first round, Im Seong-jae reduced 4 strokes to the 12th hole (par 4), but was regretted by violating the bogie in the 16 (par 4) and 18 (par 5) holes, but in the second round, he caught birdies in both holes. It.
Lim Seong-jae once tied for first place when Johnson put a tee shot on the 15th hole (par 3) in the bunker and wrote down the peeking, but Johnson put a birdie in the 18th hole and went down to second place as he climbed to the top alone. Went.
Johnson hit an even par with 4 birdies and 4 bogies this day.
In addition, he is recording a middle total of 13 under par, with 3 under par in the first round and 10 under par in bonus at-bats.
Zander Chopley (USA) is in third place alone with 11 under par, and Justin Thomas (USA) is running at fourth place alone with 10 under par.
Colin Morikawa (US), Tyral Hatton (England) and Yon Lam (Spain) are tied for fifth place (9 under par).
Among them, Ram, second in the world ranking, tied for first place with Johnson in the first round, but lost 4 strokes by struggling with 1 birdie, 3 bogies and 1 double bogie.
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