"Yang Hee-young 2nd place → Kim Hyo-joo 3rd place." This time, Yoo Hae-ran is the first Korea to win the Korean season. [LPGA HSBC Championship]

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Yoo Hae-ran (25, Daol Financial Group) continued her first attempt to win the season as a Korean player, showing off her top skills on the second day of the HSBC World Championship (total prize money of $3 million).

Yoo Hae-ran recorded a 4-under 68 in the second round of the tournament held at Sentosa Golf Club (par 72) in Singapore on the 27th as he had four birdies without a bogey.

Yoo Hae-ran, who recorded an interim total of 8-under 136, tied for second place by one stroke with Korean-American Austin Kim, who led the game alone with 9-under 135. He was on par with Lee Min-ji and Arya Jutanugarn (Thailand).

Attention is growing on whether Korean players will be able to win their first championship in the third tournament of this season. At the opening Hilton Grand Venations Tournament held in January, Yang Hee-young (27, Keum Securities) showed good performance as the lone runner-up, three strokes behind the lead at 10-under 206, and at Honda LPGA Thailand, which ended on the 23rd, Kim Hyo-joo (31, Lotte) was left disappointed as the sole third-place runner-up, two strokes behind the lead.

Yoo Hae-ran took over the baton. Yoo Hae-ran, who started tied for ninth in the opening game, also tied for 10th in Honda Thailand and entered the top 10 in a row.

She is showing off her scarier senses in this competition. Yoo Hae-ran, who started tied for third at 4 under par on the first day, dropped a tricky birdie putt on the fourth hole (par 3) and showed off a fantastic putting sense on the fifth hole (par 4) to reduce the number of pars in a row.

Unfortunately, he missed the birdie putt on the 7th hole (par 3), but he targeted the green with a perfect iron shot on the 8th hole (par 5), then calmly dropped the birdie putt, reducing three strokes in the first half alone.

In the 10th hole (par 4) trouble situation, the second shot crossed the green and headed to the rough, but he defended his par-stroke following a sensational approach. In the 12th hole (par 4) and the 13th hole (par 5), birdie putts turned away from the hole, but in the 13th hole (par 5), he calmly put his third shot near the hole to reduce one more shot.

After that, he played a stable game, but failed to reduce the number of pars any longer and ended up in the third round tied for second place.

Kim Hyo-joo, who was ranked third in the last competition, reduced four strokes and tied for 11th with Kim Se-young (33, Sportat) with 5-under 139. Rookie Hwang Yoo-min (23, Lotte), who was ranked 8th at 4 under par the previous day, started off in a good mood by catching a birdie at the 1st hole (par 4) and an eagle at the 3rd hole (par 3), but then slowed down to 1 under par with 3 birdies and 5 bogeys, and tied for 19th with Choi Hye-jin (27, Lotte) with a total of 5-under 140.

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