01주요 선수 조 편성 발표… 임성재·폭스·차카라 한데 모였다
한국에서 열리는 제네시스 챔피언십의 공식 티타임이 발표되었다. 대회 주요 흥행 카드로 꼽히는 한국의 간판 임성재는 뉴질랜드의 라이언 폭스, 스페인의 에우헤니오 차카라와 함께 한 조로 묶여 출발선에 선다.
PGA 투어 무대에서 꾸준한 성적을 거두고 있는 임성재는 고국 팬들 앞에서 최상의 기량을 선보이겠다는 각오다. 이에 맞서는 폭스와 차카라 역시 뛰어난 샷 감각을 자랑하는 선수들로, 세 선수가 펼칠 초반 화력 대결에 팬들의 이목이 집중되고 있다.
대회 조직위원회는 주요 선수들의 출발 시간을 확정하며 본격적인 대회 준비를 마쳤으며, 세계적인 선수들이 펼치는 수준 높은 플레이가 국내 골프 팬들에게 특별한 볼거리를 선사할 것으로 기대를 모은다.
02Original (English) — DP World Tour
Eugenio Chacarra will look to continue his recent blistering form in the company of Open champion Ryan Fox when the Genesis Championship gets under way on Thursday.
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The Spaniard has finished third, second and first in his last three starts to move to the top of the Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World and is playing his tenth week in the last 11 as he looks to become the third player from Spain to lift the Harry Vardon Trophy.
Kiwi Fox can also still take the season-long honours with an impressive finish to the campaign and they tee off the tenth alongside home favourite Sungjae Im at 7.40am.
It is All to Play For up and down the Rankings at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club and ten minutes earlier two players with high hopes of securing dual membership with the PGA Tour get started.
Daniel Hillier and Jacob Skov Olesen are both in the top ten on the Race to Dubai and they will play rounds one and two in the company of Korean Chanmin Jung.
Also on that side of the draw are three players who need to make the cut to have a chance of keeping a full card, with Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Sebastian Söderberg and Sean Crocker getting started at 7.00am, 7.10am and 8.10am respectively.
Home favourite Si Woo Kim is the highest-ranked player in the field and tees off the first at 12.05pm alongside defending champion Junghwan Lee and South African Casey Jarvis, who could go second in the Rankings with a win.
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