On the 48th KOLON-Hana Bank Korea Open Championship held on the 30th day in Woojeong hills Country club (Par 71, 7,047 yard), Jang ik jae recorded six birdies on the second day that made him the lead with 6 under par 136 hits.

Under rainy weather condition from the morning, Jang Ik Jae began lowering down his hits by making continuous birdies on the 4th (par 3) and 5th (par5) holes. Later, he even precipitated his rise by successfully making a 15m long hook-line birdie putt on the 11th hole (par 4).

Additionally cutting 2 more hits from the 14th (par 5) and 15th (par 4) holes, Jang Ik Jae recorded another birdie on the 18th (par 5) to finish up putting his name on the top.

After the game, he stated "I tend to focus more on rainy days. I practiced employing games under rainy weather conditions which helped a lot today. I have learned a lot from watching Wier's play and I will do my best for the upcoming season's third win and the rest of the rounds."
Park Do Kyu ranked 2nd with 4 under par 138 hits where Teddy Ferdy and Heo Won Kyung ranked dual 3rd position with 3 under par and 139 hits.

Choi Sang Ho, who aims for All season win was ranked 5th with 2 under par 140 hits. Michael Wier, 2003 Masters Champion who showed up with Korean, Canadian flag badge could cut through ranking 6th with 1 under par 141 hits. He stated, "I have 2 more rounds to go. I would be able to make champion if I can manage short games and putting well." Previous day's lead Kim Sang Ki was left with 143 hits with 2 birdies, 2 double bogey.
Inclemency was definitely a big hazard even to the veterans, scoring over than usual. Kim Jong Duk suffered from scoring 15 over pars 86 hits just on this day. Except for just one birdie, Kim Jong Duk scored 5 bogeys, 2 double bogeys, triple bogey and double par so called as 'the onion'.

Master of Iron shot; Park Nam Sin scored 10 over pars 81 shots where 'senior majesty' Kang Uk Sun scored 9 over pars 80 hits and collapsed. There were only 6 players scoring under par combining the two rounds and this day's standard for cut breakthrough was 7 over pars 149 hits. Total of 65 players made their way to the third round.

Second prize ranker Park No Suk and Choi Kwang Soo could barely pass the cut by scoring 6 over par 148 hits, 7 over par 149 respectively.

In the other hand, 'Busan Seagull' Shin Yong Jin was disqualified for strongly arguing for scores. He started off from the 10th hole this day and was inadvertent to sign off the score card after losing patience from making bogey in the last 9th hole (par 4).

However, about 15 minutes later, Nicholas Redfun the marker raised an objection that the "score is odd" and found that the result was incorrect. On the other side, Kim Seung Hyun was vastly compared by making a hole-in-one in the 4th hole. He continued to strike birdie in the next hole and could reduce 3 hits.

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On the 48th KOLON-Hana Bank Korea Open championship 3rd round, Teddy Firdie of U.S.A ranked 2nd, 2 hits after Park Do Kyu. On the 1st day's 3rd round at Woojeong hills club (Par 7, 7,047 yard), Teddy Firdy was the lead, with records of 67 hits 4 under par, mid total count of 7 under par.
He recorded 5 birdies and only one bogey on this day.

Firdy on this day succeeded a 6m birdy putt at 2nd hole (par 4) and led the beginning mood of the game.
As Ted was on the rise after successfully making a 5m long birdie putt in the 10th of the first hole, he failed on making a 2m par putt and declined on the 11th (par 4, 494 yard) hole which a paid-attention of this tournament.
However Ted could rise back up by making a birdie in a 226 yard long par 3 hole with his number 2 iron tee shot. In the last 18th hole, Teddy succeeded again on a birdie at a 55yard third shot by approaching the ball to 1.3m position, leaving behind Park Do Kyu by 2 hits.

On this day teddy even showed politeness by stating "I'm very glad to have performed well under such inclemency, and I was just lucky enough to be able to do this." He also remarked strong compliments about Woojeong hills course management by saying "Even though it rained heavily yesterday and today, I was amazed by the condition of the course."

Jang Ik Jae, who scored 6 under par in the day before recorded 2 over par 73 hits and ranked 3rd. He lost control of his finest grip of putting, collapsed and had to giveaway the lead and was finally ranked 3rd.

Park Do Kyu reduced one more score on this day, threatening Teddy with only 2 scores in the lead, and the 'legendary Choi Sang Ho' also reduced one more score which placed him 3 under par dual 4th position with amateur player Heo Won Kyung.

'Master's Champion' Mike Wier was unusual to lose command of short putts that placed him 6th with 2 under par. In the other hand, 'snake' Choi Kwang Soo recorded 7 under par 64 hits, a record tie. Previous record of the course was 7 under par 65 hits by Jae Tae Hwa in 97 Philip Morris Cup tournaments final round. Choi Kwang Soo recorded even par in total after achieving 7 under par on this day that raised his rank from 59th to the 8th.

The 48th KOLON-Hana bank Korea Open championship's final round was itself very competitive like a war and the victory was finalized to the 'snake' Choi Kwang Soo. On the 2nd, the last day of the tournament at Woojeong hill country club (par 71, 7,047 yard), Choi Kwang Soo competed against amateur player Heo Won Kyung until the extended play and finally grabbed his first Korea Open title and also his 15th champion title.

Choi Kwang Soo could regain the championship title that had been given out to foreign players for 3 consecutive years. He went into extended game with Heo Won Kyung at round 3 with his score of 7 under par 282 hits. He could participate in the extended game with more comfortable state of mind after observing Heo's tee shot falling into the woods. The game was over rather easy and not as competitive.

This day's round was literally an unpredictable continuum of chaos that no one could anticipate the winning. Choi was at a very difficult moment where he could not guarantee a par in 16th hold (par 3), but could finally manage it very calmly and overcome a critical moment. Followed by the success of the 16th hole, Choi succeeded a 7m long birdie putt in the 18th hole and could wrap up the game as the lead.

Choi stated "I wasn't completely expecting champion which I feel more happy about, and I really wanted to win a game I've never won before." He also said "I anticipated the champion score to be 14 under par before the game, but because of the bad weather conditions and wind blowing my score was not as good."

Choi received 100million won as the winning prize that accumulates with the other prizes into slightly less than 200million won (196million won), making him the prize winner over Jang Ik Jae at about 23million won difference.

Amateur player Heo Won Kyung had an opportunity to grab the Korea Open title after Kim Dae Seop, but finally failed due to the mistakes made from extended game.

Heo Won Kyung's tee shot at the extended game went over a tree and fell into a rough zone in the 17th hole. Attempts for lay up into the 18th hole fairway stuck in a tree and was finally back into 18th hole after three shots. Heo could drop the ball in front of the green through 4 wood attempts and could chip on green on the fifth attempt, but could just satisfy with the amateur trophy instead of the champion cup because Choi had already scored a par.

Invited player Teddy Firdy who looked after champion after running the lead in round 3 collapsed on the last day making 5 three putts, scoring 77hits 6 over par. He also faced the misfortune of hitting the cup in his par putt in the 18th hole that could have taken him into the extended game. He finally had to finish the game ranking 3rd. However, though not a satiating game, Ted did not lose smile on his face and his manners, leaving an amiable impression.

In the other hand, Jang Ik Jae at the champion group recorded bogey on the 14th hole falling into a hazard, another double bogey on the 16th and collapsed ranking 14th in the end. By losing this opportunity, Jang Ik Jae also lost the opportunity to record 300million prize taker never happened before in the history of Korean golf. Park Do Kyu also faced difficulties, scoring 3 over par and ended the game ranking 19th. 'Legendary'