[Golf Topic] Rookie Yoonina's 'Hell and Heaven' "Hole-in-One Right After Sextuple Bogey"

[Asia Economy Reporter No Woo-rae] ○…Rookie Yoon Ina (19·photo) experienced hell and heaven.

On the 16th, at the Rainbow Hills Golf Course in Eumseong, Chungbuk (par 72, 6,763 yards), during the first round of the KLPGA Tour major DB Group Korea Women's Open (total prize money 1.2 billion won), she made a 'sextuple bogey,' hitting 6 strokes over par. Right after that, she made a hole-in-one. The nightmare began when her tee shot on the 10th hole (par 5) landed in a bunker. The ball was buried in the sand and she couldn't hit it properly, and the ball she hit out of the bunker flew into the out-of-bounds (OB) area.

She hit three times from the bunker to get out, but including penalty strokes, she had already lost 5 strokes. It didn't end there. Her seventh shot landed in the OB area beyond the green. After receiving a penalty, she got the ball on the green on the ninth stroke but missed a 4-meter putt, recording 11 strokes. However, on the following 11th hole (par 3, 145 yards), Yoon Ina made a hole-in-one with her tee shot. It was her first hole-in-one on the KLPGA Tour stage.

She received a Ceragem medical device set worth 8 million won as a prize. "After scoring 11 strokes on the 10th hole, I was completely out of my mind," said Yoon Ina. "Since I lost 6 strokes on the first hole, I approached the 11th hole with the thought of reducing my strokes as much as possible on the remaining holes," she added. "Tomorrow, I will go out with the determination to reduce my strokes further to advance to the finals." Yoon Ina scored 4 over par 76 on the first day, combining a hole-in-one, 3 birdies, 3 bogeys, and 1 sextuple bogey.

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