LPGA Tour season 2021

As a rule, the first leg of the schedule is only for the champions two seasons before. But the 2020 season lost many awards due to the epidemic, the host organization added the 2018 extension. This year, the tournament gathered 25 players to take advantage of the 1.2 million USD bonus fund.

Yesterday, Kang did not bogey, scoring seven birdies on the par71 field of Diamond Resort at Buena Vista Lake, including a 9.1 meter chip into hole 9. All round, she averaged 237 yards, hitting 9 out of 13 fairways. , go to the green according to the 14-hole standard and use 26 put – putt.

Kang made the biggest mark on the opening day of the tournament with a birdie in hole 13 par5, 530 yards long. At the top of this hole, Kang hit the fairway, but the ball entered a downhill position. From there to the green front edge about 241 yards.

Usually in such situations, Kang needs to use an iron to keep the ball safe. But she decided to use the number 5 wooden stick. With that risk, Kang went to the green, six meters away and comfortably put the ball into the hole to close the birdie.

After the round, Kang revealed that his own caddy Oliver Brett did not believe her “2 on” in the second in such a difficult position. Brett said: “That was the best 20 I’ve ever seen. Danielle recognized the chance, I didn’t. So she was the star player.”

Kang has been playing professionally since 2011, winning the 2017 major Women’s PGA Championship in five LPGA Tour championships, in which two consecutive titles in the rematch schedule after five months of translation break last season. She currently ranks fifth in the world – the Rolex Rankings table.

In the past few weeks, she has quarantined herself twice because of Covid-19 infection, and did not appear on the evening of January 18. After six negative tests, a golfer born in 1992 was allowed to play.

Kang is taking a lead over the T2 group of sisters Jessica – Nelly Korda and defending champion Gaby Lopez and T5 at -5 goes to Brittany Lincicome and Stacy Lewis. Nelly Korda is a step above Kang on the Rolex Rankings. On the first day of the tournament, there were 19 players with negative scores.

Despite the raging epidemic, the event still maintains the same content as it was for celebrities and other sports stars in previous years. This year’s section brings together 53 players, competing for a $ 500,000 prize fund in the adjusted Stableford format. They are grouped together with a pro rating. Former Mardy Fish is at the top with 41 points, more than two points ahead of Aaron Hicks, the star of the New York Yankees baseball team.

The “Stableford Adjustment” format encourages golfers to be more daring in their fighting strategy, so that the more positive points the better, by converting the usual score per hole into algebraic scores like this: Double Eagle (under standard three-stroke hole or -3): +8 points Eagle (-2): +5 points Birdie (-1): +2 points Par: 0 points Bogey: -1 point Double bogey or worse: -3 points

Quoc Huy synthetic