KLPGA star Yoon Ina poised for LPGA card after bogey-free round at qualifying tournament

SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Yonhap) -- South Korean tour star Yoon Ina has taken a huge step toward her LPGA Tour membership after submitting a bogey-free round on the penultimate day of the qualifying tournament in Alabama.

Yoon fired a 10-under 62 in the fourth round of the LPGA Q-Series on the Crossings Course at Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Magnolia Grove in Mobile, Alabama, on Sunday (local time). Yoon, the 2024 KLPGA Tour Player of the Year, money winner and scoring champion, recorded eight birdies and an eagle to reach 14-under 272 for the competition, good for a tie for seventh.

Players finishing in the top 25 and ties after the fifth round Monday will receive LPGA Tour cards for 2025.

Yoon tied Chisato Iwai of Japan for the low round of Sunday. Iwai leads the Q-Series at 20-under, while her twin sister, Akie, is tied with Yoon at 14-under.

Yoon is the top-ranked South Korean so far, with Park Kum-kang in 10th place at 11-under and Joo Soo-bin one stroke back in 11th place alone.

Five players are tied for 25th place at four-under heading into the final round. Lee Se-hee is in a six-way tie for 30th at three-under, with Kang Min-ji sitting at one-under and Shin Bi at even par through four rounds.

Lee Jeong-eun has her work cut out as she is at two-over. One other South Korean, Kang Hae-ji, missed the cut after the fourth round with a score of six-over 292.

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