[KLPGA 2025] Hana Financial Group Championship 2025 / Final Round (ENG Commentary)

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A very good afternoon and a warm welcome to Bears Best Chonga for the final round of the Hana Financial Group Championship, the seventh edition of what is quickly becoming a hugely popular event here on the KPGA Tour. Bigname stars like Lydia Co and Mini Lee returned back to South Korea to contest the 1.5 billion Korean Juan prize purse. And the weather set fair for championship Sunday. It’s a barmy 24° Celsius. Nice sunny skies up ahead and a little bit of breeze to keep things interesting for the ladies out on the golf course. I mentioned that 1.5 billion Korean Juan purse. It’s 270 million1 heading the way of our champion Timothy Lo here welcoming you along to what should be another brilliant day of golf on the KPGA tour. These are the groups that will be in the hunt this afternoon. Chinyong Kim7 and Rosong Hui who’s just passed the 1 billion Korean one single season earnings mark after last week’s OK man open. Goji won the only surviving co-sister to make the weekend in the company of Idong and Sununa. So Jung Kurion and Park Mi went off just before 10 a.m. this morning. And in the penultimate group, Mi Lee looking to go one better than her runner-up finishes in 2021 and 2023. Edon the 2023 champion besting Mi to playoff in the final group with Yo Hyon Joe the leader on the points list coming into this week and of course Yun who built a sizable cushion coming into championship Sunday but a little stumble on the third hole has left the door wide open. This is Dion’s third shot to the par five ninth off a couple of bogeies in her last two holes. Dion finds herself back at five under par. Now under the previous editions has seen a repeat winner or a multipletime winner of the Hana Financial Group Championship. It going to change things today to the start of the back nong produced a brilliant round of 67 yesterday to play herself to the fringes of contention. She starts the back n six shots back after nine straight bars to start Sunday [Music] to the start with a birdie at the opening hole but took a double at the third slot open champion the rough so hard to get that ball to stop it tickles through the back collar of rough bit tricky from that spot expected GV to make a bit of a run championship Sunday. It’s been a solid front n for a great look at birdie back at the par five nth unable to convert. She’s got it within two shots of park. Absolutely flagged her approach into this 10th floor 24 hours ago. It’s a pretty fine effort to that back left pin. Improved weather has brought out some good crowds for this final round. Rookie of the year on the KPGA in the air comes up a little short but gets a nice forward kick and feeds down to an excellent position. She’s getting the brakes going her way at this stage. K. [Music] Defending champion unfortunately missing the halfway cut. It came at five over par. So there will be no back victories for Don Jump here to back NA back one hole to EJ on the first group off the 10th T this morning is five under power for Har today and has got it up to a share of sixth was actually seven under for Haround But it’s just bogi six and seven golf working for Jon after that for par at 10 to full time of the KPJ tour after losing her card on the LP. PGA Tour last season finish this year on home soil. Good news for Parkers first cut off rough isn’t too thick at the back of the greens. It gets the club on the back relative ease and managed a very fine effort. I think that’ll be a a rock solid par at the very worst even if Joe makes her part for birdie. Jun is going to be leading with nine laps to play. To the 10th we go and hy lengthy one for birdie justing its way downhill from right to left. Seven birdies yesterday round of 67 is proving that opportunities are out there if you’re brave enough to claim them. So to tie the lead at nine, Hyunjo for a four. She thought she had it. I’m pretty sure the crowd did as well. Great effort that all stubbornly stays out of the cup. Front line bogey free. 35 for you. This is the club that has to behave if wants to be a factor in about 2 hours time. 30 look here at 10. [Music] just out dropping 14 time winner two or three of those major victories including the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship earlier this year. Dion needs to stop the rot. Oh, that’ll help. 8:30 for Edon. Winds back alongside Mi at six under power. Just with the way that there’s a little separation at the top, you have to say it’s pretty much a four-h horse race at this juncture between Mi, Dion, Kunjo, and Hun. 30 but on eight runs past. Good effort though from long range. [Music] Another [Music] one goes some Eugene hopes coming into championship Sunday playing in the penultimate group but a costly excursion thus far. two time tour winner left to play in the week of EJ on the new round of the championship 66 that was carded by Joe yesterday for kill two under which is going to be some magic over the last eights. [Music] Dion laid the crown two years ago. It took a three-hole playoff which included Mji Lee and Thailand’s Tatanip just out the back line. Two shots back. Shut up. [Music] [Music] Who has experience winning at this venue? did so at the Lay Open back at the beginning of July. He’s trying to go wire to wire at the Honda Financial Route Championship in September. Parkinson has led since the word go. Oh, well, she was swinging it yesterday. drove it brilliantly for the back nine. That’s just off the edge of the fairway, but real harm done. The first cut to that left pin. stayed out of the water but still in the penalty area and oh dear dear goodness it’s a steep slope and that would have been an almighty splash should tumble backwards [Music] became the first woman to successfully defend a major title on the Korean tour since went back to back at the KPGA championship. ship in 2021 won KB Financial Group Star Championship in a rookie season at Caner two weeks ago at Blackstone in Inion Top of the KPJ points list with just over 10 events left to play in 2025. The final group into the back nine on championship Sunday with Hjin on to a one-shot advantage over Hyunjo two clear and Mi little bit further away from the weeds at 16. See that flag starting to flutter a little bit more. Breeze is picking up as the leaders get to the back line. So that was two under power for Har, but I will drop at least one shot off par three to 11. One of the players in desperate need of a good finish this week to try and make the task of keeping a tour card for 2026 that much easier. Kurion one under for the championship. Just eight players in red figures. Bear’s best has been a brute for 2025. Same in for bogey. Okay. Drops just the one. Tightest T-shot that the players face at best. Water all the way down the right hand side of this 11th hole. Big pump on the left that must be avoided as well. That’s pretty much ideal for Lee. attempt. Location kind of tempts you to attack it, especially having only a short iron from 130. But you don’t want to miss this green left. It’s a tough up and down. She’s staying aggressive. She’s staying on the attack. And that’s a beautiful shot from Edion. Same with this angle. Even though she’s coming out of the first kind of rush, it’s not a bad shot to have in as a mobile phone just goes off in the crowd. Not that she could deal with any more distractions and it’s a hugely important day for her. safely out to the heart of the green with smart play. Just try and get this one back under control. Give yourself some good birdie looks. So what we’re trying to do is that cutting back enough just about for some jin form to this week and she’s only got wedge into the tent. Try and keep the pressure on. She will do that. Excellent shot for Yu Hun Joe. He’s turning the screws on Parkia Jun a little. only sister pair to have won the KPBJ tour. Goji one and sister goji. Big sister missing the halfway cut this week. This is Sasu Masters champion progressing through to weekend action. Just the company of Son Bernard. Was outside of the top 60 on the money list this week. could bank anchor big check here. Just take a little pressure off with a handful full of events left to go in the 2025 season. Same boat as SA. Shots better to get into a share of fifth. Shot game, place game is going to be vital here. You don’t need to worry about keeping a card if you’re the reigning Korea Women’s Open champion. Earns a 5-year exemption for her victory at Rainbow Hills back in June. Level path for around the championship just inside the top 10 at the moment. The touring distance off the tea. Managed to find the fairways. Doesn’t have a distance there. Just 29 m left into the long 12. She takes advantage having only a wedge in hand. Beautiful shot back to your leader. This is Pursuer in close this up for Eddie down the hill. Tracking on a really nice line and some good speed control we’ve seen out of her throughout the course of the week. He hasn’t put the pass saving putts to too much of a test. And apart G round of golf yesterday 67 the 19 time tour champion who’s yet to win in 2025 a little game again this early part on 11. Joe tie the lead. Make it an even ball game with into play. Take out a mis cut at the Hankyong Ladies Cup. the only cut she’s missed this season. And in the last five weeks, she has not finished outside of the top 10. Two runner-up finishes to go with Blackstone. She’s got a share of the lead in Chonga. Two third place finishes, three runnerups, a major title. Joe’s park and land of the day for EJ Yun. [Music] Take a hop, skip, and a jump and just trickle onto the green. Should start to get a piece. Productive round of golf for E. two tied and he’s under tie on to take it to within one. Pretty simple read this just a fraction of movement off the right. powered it through the brake. frustrate Ion a little. Head to Kim second at the 11th. Done the hard part. Find this narrow fairway. She capitalized. She’s got seven iron. A bit of breeze at her back. [Music] to separate Park and Yu with eight holes to play. some bad players on tour that like to move the ball from left to right a little bit more control. Pretty much the perfect spot. Going to need couple more of those on this back line. But that’s a good start at 11. started to hit a couple of clunky eye shots at this point in her round on Saturday. 99. You see how firm the greens are getting this afternoon. Just want to carry that bunker. Expect a big kick and it should feed on. That’s more like a really good shot from the Aussie. Saw G taking a drop at 12 from an embedded ball. This is her putt for P. Well done. 21 year old winner on tour after that huge T-shot was able to keep it fairly close to this front hole location and has a excellent look at birdie that would move her into red figures runner up last week at the OK Savings Bank open to Bangshin Sil doing a great year here on tour. It’s like the top 10 on the points list and the money list. Confidently walks that one in. You look down on that 11th hole, there really isn’t much fairway to a You certainly don’t want to be right. Young Joe generates a good amount of club head speed. Lowest scoring average on tour this year as well. 69.7. Threewood trying to keep it short of that left bunker. And she’ll do that and find the rough. That’s going to be a little challenging to access the left hole location from there. Up on the green. Couple of birdie putts coming for the penultimate group. First, Hunyong right about pinh high right. Can’t get the putter warmed up just yet. Hun to cap off a fabulous final round. Yes, why not? That’s a great way to end. 30 on the last equals the low round of the week of 66 and for the moment takes the clubhouse lead. That’s a great week’s work. Kin with the driver. This is a tight line down the left side of the fairway. Does it catch a piece? No. She also finds the left rough and really looked like it buried itself into the longer grass. Both leaders slightly out of position at 11. up ahead on the green. Ni have to say just for her sanity and for her confidence, she needs one of these putts to go in. It feel like she can start to put a bit of a run together. Certainly the most experienced campaigner on the front page of the leaderboard. Okay, she’ll get it. Miy Lee makes her move on 11. Got a good amount of support behind her as well. The Australian Eugen to try and recover one of the three drop shots today. Okay. It looked like it was trying to get away but it tumbles in for some Eugene. her that three underpass sending her back in the right direction. Look at the 18th is where we find young 279 starts before her first victory at the DO house open two years ago. Our final round started so brilliantly with three birdies in a first four but three bogeies in a row straight past 35year-old mother. Not the test of lies for young Joe in this left rough. How firm the greens are. The only way she gets this close is just to carry that left hand trap in the rough. Had to take some of the sting out of that golf ball and have it just tumble on. Such a risky shot. You don’t catch it perfectly. You’re in that trap. Tricky up and down. You catch a bit of a flyer. Catch a firm bounce of the green. It goes shooting through the back. So, I expect this one to be just played out towards the fat side of the green, a little right of this pin. [Music] Pitch it pin high. It just shoots on towards the back. Finds the green Jose. Bad result by any stretch of the imagination. just trying to keep the pressure out here. Jing her on to say probably the most inexperienced of contenders. That’s bad line. So from the camera angle earlier on, it looked like a pretty poor line that left rough. Similar case to George smart about this. Not the time to get greedy. Let’s find the green bit right. Give yourself a [Music] The jumper just runs through the back. See that birdie on 11 just ignites the charge of Mi Lee who finds herself trailing by one on the 12th team. player the final route to hit the fairway at 11. Take advantage of this at 32 left. Back into the breeze. Another well played iron shot for Eion. God [Music] to 18 we go. Running from right where the pin was on Friday as a song became the first South Korean amateur to win on the Japanese ladies tour last season. a rough day. It’s good piece of effort for the bright yellow stars golf South Korea and to the 13th a birdie for Kimman 7. All right, confidently hold there. Another player to have won a professional title as an amateur did so at the mix championship of 2023. Ju for her part 72. saw a great comment on social media earlier in the week. Waited 279 years for Park Juul Young to win game after the birth of her son. So, let’s not wait till she sends his son to college before he she wins again. Good friend and teammate team care. her first PLPG title runs back ladies cup unfortunately ends her week 79 back to Mi who’s no stranger to being in the winner circle successful golfer ever on the KPJ2 as this birdie part at 12. We had four top 10s this season. Victory Mi very inconsistent year. Lots of green to work with from the back of 11 runner. Don’t need to reach for the lob wedge. Settle down. Oh, it’s very heavy-handed indeed. Here, Jun. She’s starting to feel the pressure. Maybe the nerves getting to her a little bit. That’s the huge opportunity in front of her. Notice she’s coming from the middle of the fairway. It’s a tough pin to get close to, especially when you’re coming in with a five iron. Right on the front section of the green, just six from the front. Couple yards from the right edge. Buck is short. A lot of players just content to play out towards the middle at themselves. 30 40 ft for birdie. Especially with ball flight being a little flatter and lower. It’s just hard to stop it with a long iron. She’s reached for the hybrid, which is going to give her a little bit more launch and trajectory. She’s definitely going to have to take something off it. Said she’s got a great sweeping motion. So shallow into the ball next to one of the elite players on tour with this particular club in her hands. just tried to feather one in. Lost a little speed to digs in left and that’s going to be a bit of a tricky one to negotiate for Park. The co- leader struggling for park Joe here in the road. Maybe even a two-shot swing if this finds the target. was tracking. That’s very good putt. So, Eugen 12 a little heavy contact. to keep it on the dance floor. Song 13 the 30 opportunity even though this penalty area shortly got good distance control making solid contact. Plenty of chances of getting a putt from inside 15 ft. Just like that. Don do what Lee did just a couple of moments ago. It’s a bird to take Dion to 700 bar. Another [Music] one slips by from E. She’s a tremendously patient player. Start forcing the issue. Just got to create chances. Let the birdies come to her. Deficit remains two. Why doesn’t look too bad for Lee? She’s going to have to hoist this one high up in the air if she wants to keep it in the front segment of this 12th green. She’s got an eight iron. The crowd liked it from the rough. That is not a bad shot at all. Pressure mounting for parking on this 11th green. Clumsy pit shot from the back edge has left of this for to stay tight. No, not this time. Such great power saves from yesterday. That is a costly bogey. that hands the lead to that young lady, 20year-old Joe seeking a second win of the year. That will consolidate the lead at top the points list and over to the top spot on the money list as well. Already made 997 million one. It’s a 270 million Korean one. A first place check this week. Currently holding down top spot on the money list. He’s made just over a billion one with the momentum, the lead and the honor of the 12th team. [Applause] Nice shot there from left side of 12 green. Go to Kit Lynn who’s following up a bogey on 60 with another on 17. Back at two over P now. [Music] But you’re expected to hold too often. Mi le with good pace downhill swinging from left to right. [Music] Good to see the rhythm of that swing hasn’t changed for Parkia Jin. Finds herself chasing for the first time this week. Trails by shot. Goodbye. See right fringe number 12 is down here left to rider. She would have seen ni spot for her. So it has an idea of how this ball will react around the hole. It’s traveling with a little bit more pace. Too much peace. [Music] Thick looking line for Lydia Cole the ninth. quite been the weekend Lydia was looking for. I’m sure she’d be very happy all four rounds having missed the cup last year of this championship. To the 14th we go and it’s on seventh for another birdie. Okay. Starting to cooperate again. [Music] [Music] last week’s winner Bang Shin Sil privilege and pleasure Lia Coast company today’s final round no doubt will learn a thing or two from the threetime major champion and hall of famer and see to end her day with a birdie. [Music] Had a good round working before those late bogeies. Be a 72 for sale. Eugene has lost a turn on 12. She still finds herself putting this time for par. Best ever inductee to the LPGA’s Hall of Fame, Lydia Co. the reigning Olympic gold medalist, ends her week with a 76. Park Championship Sunday Bunch in Silk. Not easy but left for Mji. Going to start this left. Well, really nicely rolled in. Stays in a share of second. Hit some brilliant iron shots yesterday down the stretch. Park engine that little saw off follow through which I’m really becoming a fan of the full send there. It sounded a little thin. Where’s this heading? Great undone under the putting surface, but it is a different kettle of fish. Dealing with Sunday pressure, the nerves, your body feels a little different. Takes some getting used to. Dion no stranger victories on a couple of close calls this season already couple of championships under her belt including the women’s open classic couple of majors KPGA was a pretty big drive. You have Joe. Importantly, she’s kept it out. Left hand fairy bunker. See the pin there right just over the small inside track breeze off the right a little bit into her face. So the ideal shot is we can hold up some kind of cut against that breeze should come down fairly softly. She’s only got 123 m left of the hole. It’s going to be a little chippy one. [Music] took off on a good line. How’s the number? Pretty good. That’s solid from there. Doesn’t make too many mistakes. Joe picks up another birdie. gets herself to one underpar. This is a really good performance from Song. Yes. Yes. It’s actually not a terrible lead for Diane on 12. The line looks okay. She’s on an ups slope and it’s just enough green to work with where she can land this on the putting surface. A little bit of height. Don’t worry about it getting away from her too much. A passing shot. A brilliant shot. Somehow does a drop for Dion. Boy, she has had some close calls at the start of this back nine at the short 13th. Really, you have to say for the top four on the leaderboard, this is one of those holes where it is a musty hole. She has played the par fours better than anybody else this week. Mi generous fairway with just a three-wood in hand for most of these players. No. Just about controlling the nerves in the base of this plant from Parkrin. downhill moving right, but you don’t hit it with enough with enough speed, leave yourself an awful little short slider. So, you still got to be positive with your pace. Was going to be a little low, but the speed was good from here. [Music] She’s half the distance. too greedy with this. How much it slips away to the right, especially the last six feet. Sort of feel and finesse down there. Set up with a little bit more brake, a little bit less speed. Just have the slump of the green feed it towards the hole. Just like that. Excellent touch from Ky Joe Qu. She won the Financial Group KB Financial Group Star Championship for the last two years. Is widely regarded as the toughest test on KLPJ tour every year. She’s no stranger to grinding out cars. Efficient and smart golf seemed to the top of the leaderboard. [Applause] Go back out to the final hole. Well, the where the action will culminate in about 90 minutes time. Couple of groups make their way into this great finishing hole. There’s best cha expect to see a number of butts from this segment of the green in Jong is pointing that’s the that’s the apex of a butt the highest point balls path towards the hole look downhill from there two time on PGA Tour in another player who struggled over the last season or two with consistency. finds herself inside the top 20 this year financial group championship know the point that she picked out but it should work out. Oh tried to hang on but good effort though from Hijong Closing top. That’s a week with a 73. Got to go flag hunting here. Did not shy away from the challenge. on a brilliant line just half a club short for Mji Lee we find one two years in a row she’s been queen of golf KLPJ tour player of the year in successive years after bagging rookie of the year honors in 22 and that’s a nice way to end the day just like she did on Saturday. Birdie’s the final hole round and 72. [Music] are tight at the top. You have to say it’s between the top four on your leaderboard. It’s Yu Honjo, the KB Financial Group Star Champion, holds the slimmest of leads at 8 under par. Training out of the middle of the fairway on 13 is Sun Eugen to move it left to right. So this back right pin should suit her eye nicely right on Q. [Music] the five 15th Seven who’s started to roll a couple of birdies in. Has another look here. [Music] leads by one. Hungju is going with 3wood of 13. all the way to the edge of the fairway. Show the penalty here. He has a little flick wedge left as we go up to the green and ninjuts short. It’s an easy thing to do when you got a broomstick putter. Hard to swing something that long hard enough. not used to trailing this week at the Hana Financial Group Championship. has time opportunities. Just has to keep getting good solid shots. Pretty good from all three ladies in the final group there. Throw a picnic blanket shots. 14 and Kon looking for a birdie here at the bar three. Good speed though. Judge. Couple of minutes to go. Cool. Saw you jump. She will find the bottom of the cup. Great birdie there from S. after that excellent second shot actually got Lee to get up on the green and mark her ball before she played her second. He can’t convert. A poor effort from Sug was just dying to build a little momentum. Arkami nice T-shot into 14 to back to even par for the tournament. Ah, finally a birdie on Sunday for Park Mi get the fans all riled up. Lovely deuce mi from one mi to another. Australian just looking to clean things up at 13th. expect with quality of these three players in the final group, someone’s going to knock it stiff to this back pin. It’s only a wedge. These girls have been pretty soft and receptive all week. Make the early downpour for that. D first needs to feel like a conversation. Very much is too bad. early if you need to put a par in from here in a tournament. Contact is good. It’s a little right. Just clears the penalty area. Turn back in a Little for Joe. A bit of spin, but okay. As close as she would have liked, but still a pretty solid shot. That edge off that edge in left. He keeps turning left. Clumsy from park. It’s just a subtle difference in the body language. Send it into slumped a little bit. She’s not quite attacking the ball, attacking the pins with the same confidence she had 24 hours ago. Head to 14 and Lee in deep discussion. Yes, pretty calm right now breezewise on this elevator too. She’s got seven. Let’s [Applause] guess where that’s gone from facial expression. Oh, there you go. If you answered 25 ft short and right, you’d be correct. Pretty good. Underneath the hole with an uphill putt. She gets the window. I only predicted someone was going to stick it close on this 13th or actually no one has in Duty second just penalty just up between those two away. Let them sort it out. We go up to the billion dollar girl Rosong. He’s got six iron on the 16th. She is a Women’s Open champion. Excellent T-shot there at the bar three. who gave the hole a mighty scared. No one’s driven away with that BMW hole-in-one prize for a number of years now. Hana Financial Group Championship. Back to 15 we go. And Cooji one who unfortunately a couple of drop shots is now back at five over par. determined that Dion is away. So, apart from the right fringe of this green, just going to be a slow one working uphill all the way towards the hole. Just so hard to convince yourself to hit that one hard enough. Such as the steep green around the cup at 13. Heat. Heat. should though it’s just about that we’ll get her attention. She knows the back edge of this queen. It’s going to be a little slippery one downhill and if you’re a little bit ham-handed in a pace this could pull out to almost where Dion is. Don’t want that having just boi the 11 plenty of respect there. That was not traveling too quickly at all. At the par 515, the birdie putt downhill sliding to the right. Oh, it drops for Dongan. Couple more birdies on this back n take into solo seventh. It’s one of those putts where you’re not worried about clumsy three putt just coming uphill all the way. You can be aggressive with your speed and you’re starting to build a little momentum. Freewheel parts of this range a little more and it’s not surprising to see them drop. leads by one. The double that spread. This one finds the bottom of the cup. She was very bold with the pace. That’s no converts after that lovely wed shot. Nice little birdie. First of the day go at seven from distance at 16. Some Jim just about a 4footer at 30. Wouldn’t it just be ironic if she rolled this one in for birdie at 14? Of course she will because that’s just the game of golf, isn’t it? It is rewarding as it is ridiculous. Great birdie there for Sunu Jin left to ru those early bogeies. She’s still battling to keep herself relevant. Big butt for Dion. Can’t be giving up shots. Not on a hole like 13. Confidently stroked for Dion [Music] to tie the lead at the 14th for Mi. That’s hit positively. Oh my goodness. How’s that missed hit the back of the hole? Wasn’t even the full lip out for Mi. Was an aggressive try. It was a good putt, but it goes unrewarded for the Australian. Just keep the focus up here. Come on, Joe. Just a right half putt. It’s the putts that got to make championship Sunday. So polarizing. You’re rolling in. You feel confident. That confidence builds. You somehow miss these. You start to second guessess yourself. Solid nicely hauled out. Keeps the lead. Young Joe Richard case for her. Deal with the distraction. The crowd already starting to move along up towards the 14th G as she settles in over this popup. Hand up nicely. M at the far 515 up above the slope. It will a shot from Mi. Don’t stare at it. Run up the market. What are we doing? She can’t believe it stayed up on top of the rise. Back on the te’s where we find some Eugene. I think the train is okay. Come here. Looks like a fairly innocuous all location on 14. Solid enough contact. You end up in that front bunker. That’s not an easy up and down. Expect sensible shot to be just a little right over the pin. Second pass. She’s a very good front runner. Another freeding championships drill. This one certainly off a little right, a little deep, but it’s okay. Just avoiding any silly mistakes now. Cross to 15. She’s going to think eight on the minimum. NG gets to nine. Probably be a mini target over these next four holes. 15th is pretty much a mustard for her. She wants to avoid another heartbreak at the Hummer Financial Group Championship where she has finished runner up twice. Both of them in playoffs go to this lady Destroy [Music] is the right back is a little deep. just by extra tossing up the across. Maybe the wind starting to switch a little this tea box. It was gently off the right for most of the day. Sticking with that seven iron. Have to work it from right to left. This is a comfortable looking target for E. [Music] appear to like the strike, but you’ll love the result. What a D-shot at a time like this for Eion. Not the time to press the panic button yet for Parkin. Solid shots, solid swings at conservative targets like the great Ernie Elms used to say. That’s what she needs. Too conservative there, but she’s dancing at 14. No one’s made an ace on this par three all week. No one’s going to win that mattress and bid set with 140 million1, which I still find remarkable. It’s almost $100,000 for a bed. Slightly more practical prize up for grabs on 16. That new BMW 5 series. So, in how brave will she be? It’s a pretty solid T-shot given the circumstances for Salt. Just be a layup here on the 15. Get it past the creek that splits the fairway. Park Ni get the right side of power. He’s only had four top 10s this season. He finds himself in solo in 11. Not many more. Birdie there back to back for Park to a share of eighth. Incredible. 257 m. Does play a little downhill. Maybe out of range for NG Lee just trying to get himself a nice yardage in for her Good. [Music] to the closing hole. [Music] We at the par five ninth and eight over bar. This is her third shot. It’s a very nicely played one. reach to the closing stages of this year’s HANA Financial Group Championship and it’s the star champion Yu Hy Joe who holds a slim oneshot lead overnight leader Park Jun and the three-time major champion Inji Lee Heat. Heat. So shot to the 15th for some huge chin. Got to make sure you get it all the way up that slope just short of the pin spin on this. Don’t want it backing up. Good distance control from pinh high. Back to the night leader Park Jun with this outside chance for a birdie at the par 34th. That was struck with a little more conviction. hasn’t been able to get too much going today pass except for a drop shot at the 13th hole. Back at one under now that one to skip up the slope. That’s a delightful shot for the player was known as beautiful. [Music] It’s a chance to extend again for Yuan Joe. Wasn’t far off. Excellent effort from the 20-year-old leader. [Music] got to manufacture something brilliant here. Mi doesn’t have to worry about spin. 53 m to go the slope. Get a bit of check. Stay up there. just hangs on. She capitalize after that brave T-shot. Takes it to seven under. Another player joins the pack within one of Yu Hon Joe. It looks like we’re going to head for another photo finish at this year’s Hana Financial Group Championship after Madas’s blowout win last year. It’s going to be a race to the finish line. Edongen 116. Nice line on that pull up just a little shy Women’s Open Champ. Hu to end her week with a birdie. Positive way to end. Despite the round of 73, it’ll be a top 40 finish for Yu Ho Ju. You can see at the bottom right of your screen where the crowd is starting to gather. Final group make their way up to the tea box with Yukio Ju leading by one over three players on just birding 14th with the honor here at the bar five. Jin or another birdie straight up the hill so I can give this one a good wrap [Music] up to beat. She’s not one to be concerned. She knows that they still have to make birdies to catch her. Oh, snatch of the tea tells you all you need to know about where that one’s heading. to get herself into a tie for the lead that moves right to left relatively straight towards the end. All the movement’s going to be in the first couple of feet. Didn’t hit it. Just did not hit it. I’ve seen that a number of times. Such a great player. Terrible. But believe me, that putter does run a little cold. Thank you. [Music] Just a simple little tap in park in Kung to take it to two under. [Applause] [Music] But the tie had no struggles on Sunday. Second shot to the final hall. It’ll be a fifth cut made on tour this year. Sure. [Music] Couple of yards more. [Music] What began as a pretty wet week has turned into a brilliant canvas on championship Sunday where Yu Hyunju leads a trio of challengers by a single shot. I do recall in slightly drier conditions in years past this 15th provided a fair amount of drama with players being able to reach into get a little bit more run in the fairways and shorten up that second sharp considerably, but not so much the case in 2025 with the soft condition of the golf course. Just trying to lay it up. An unusually warm summertime season in Korea. Thunderstorms. National average recorded temperatures 2° C warmer than it’s ever been. Been a tough couple of months for green keepers at the 524 golf courses up and down South Korea. Dion and Hun up safely on this par five. What does Yu Hun Joe have in for the second? We wait. We’ll go over to Chari Bunchan. It’s coming to the end of the round. A birdie on the card for Bunan. Almost a flashy way to finish, but that one in a closing round of 76 at the moment. It’s just enough for a top 25 finish. Desperately needed like a top 10 this week. Joe getting pretty close to the front edge similar yardage to what G Lee had in the penalty group. Goodness, was that a stone cold top? [Music] I think it was that that might be in the penalty area. Oh, what a time to make a mistake like that if you’re Yu Hun Joe. That’s just blown this tournament wide open. Pressure does strange things to great players. Her boyfriend Saddam Galenjana won the Colon Korea Open in Chun Chun at the end of May. Unfortunately slumped to a 76 on the championship Sunday. I’m sure she’ll take the positives from this week into next week’s height general championship. Blue her back to even for a day after her birdie on 15. Shing away at bar three 16th water down the left. This one hitting a little right. after that. Unbelievable miss finding the the creek after much a stone cold top. Joe has had to drop a play for the other side of the penalty area and she’s still got quite a ways to go to get to this green. Just got to put that mistake out of her mind. Try and give herself a chance to save car. through the back of the relief. That’s quickly. She doesn’t know it, but G Lee did have a share of the leading group. So 30 or two get some pressure on the final three ball. It’s an excellent T-shot on 16. But will the putter cooperate for Lee? Weird in this area here. A great chance on remain very patient. the course of this final round. State from here tie on a little opening here at the 15th. She’s played that nicely, given herself an uphill putt. Chance of a two shot swing unfolding at this par five then at the par five on this back n the long 17th. This is her third shot just outside of 100 m. play up to this elevated green bunker short that come to a rest about 12 ft away spike as well for her line just crafted an excellent approach to Dion and Hen A great birdie looks Yuion Joe find the penalty area is still not on the green for four. This tournament even tighter at the top Kar 16. It’s downhill right to left for birdie just off the edge of the green. Well, the head’s got to be spinning a little. Heart’s got to be racing for EJO after it’s been a bizarre last 15 minutes for the 20 year old. Still the task is simple here. Just with where that hole’s cut, if she tries to be a little too bold in this par putt, she gets it with too much speed. You could easily catch the slope and roll another 10, 15 ft down into that valley. It’s just about pace here. Yourself a chance. Limit the damage to no more than one. downhill all the way to the hole and will be moving a decent amount off the left as well. The putt is the right play here. The old adage goes, a bad putt’s always going to be better than a bad chip, especially with adrenaline and curves running through your body. [Music] Decent effort to stick a spot on [Music] Still not yet secure. Dongan at 17 to take it to three under par. [Music] Knew that where that one was headed. Confidently walked in. Kimmanadan 7 has reached the final hole. Found the fairway off the tea. See too many shots stuck close to this pin for him to kill the speed. Not a bad lead for tied on to move into the lead of the Hana Financial Group Championship with three holes to play. She pounces on 15. Edion with backto- back birdies gets to wait under par. Yuon Joe going to be dropping at least one shot at this par five. Seen time and time again through the such a patient player. on crafts chances and just take some the opportune moments championship Sunday. You see another player move to wait under. Giving herself plenty of good looks. Mi Lee needs one to drop. This is a vital putt on 16. [Music] can’t take it again. The putter just letting Mi down. She needed it most to get back to under the top spot it high. Now it’s the turn of Edion to lead outright with three to play. Boy, this Sunday has certainly delivered in terms of drama. That lead has flip-flopped all throughout this round starting the three shot cushion. Joe with some excellent golf to be in the lead for the entirety of our pet ninjel chasing the 2023 champion at Bear’s best. Still three holes to play. [Laughter] did what she had to do after that second shot. off with minimal damage done. Little flip-flop at the top of the board is Edon Pole position down the home stretch. [Applause] Sure. [Applause] Sure. Well, got to find a birdie. These last two holes, manito of any sort of chance. just don’t seem to like making silly mistakes over this closing run. You sure? [Applause] [Music] Should be fairly obvious. The one place you can’t go on this 16th hole. Trouble. Nothing good down the left hand side of this par three. It’s not the strongest it’s been all day long is helping and coming off the right. So players can look to start this T-shot just on the front right third of the green and let that wind push it back towards the target. Even if it stays straight, don’t be a great penalty for that. This is not the time to get greedy. Try and attack this flag or it’s a kind of hu cut up shot. Dion knows that natural draw should mean that she can start this almost right edge and let the wind push it back towards the target and 50 stumble for Joe as Dion lead by one. She looks for her second hardship group championship in three years. Nice PGA to a victory. Advantage at the moment certainly the corner of the 28y old stage Sunday afternoon. Heat. Heat. deliberation between Diana and her caddy here. It’s just trying to work out what the wind’s doing. We’ve got a bit of a crosswind. We’re trying to establish whether it’s helping or it’s hurting you. what we saw from the camera angle at the back of the green. It certainly looked like it was helping. Definitely coming off the right That was a stunning shot. Maybe just a little deep, but that’ll do for the 17th and Park M trying to claw her way up to two under. A little too firm on that line. Saw her use that little abbreviated follow through, that sort of trappy squeeze shot to such great effect over the first three days. See that little sort of follow through at all. Hardly seen it this Sunday. This is a good spot for it to try and trap one. There it is. the flight down, but she doesn’t like it. Is that hitting out to the right? Yes, it is. Sun7 on the home hole for a closing birdie. A drop at good pace from Diva. Just a little kick in the bar. End her week at two over. Just a couple of deep breaths. Calm the nerves. Put a good swing on this one. Shortest club of the three in the final group. Uh-oh. She doesn’t like it. That one’s a little left. Oh no. You Honjo wheels have come off. I think the penalty area should have just hung up on the bank in that thick rough. Looked a different player last 40 minutes. 17. Mi just trying to lay it up to a good number at the par five. Let’s go. It’s Dion who’s in control of the Hana Financial Group Championship with three holes to play. She leads on eight under par. doesn’t need to do too much with this one. Stab and run. Everything’s sloping down towards that whole location. contenders to find some struggles this bad night. Couldn’t kill 17. Good solid sound of contact. Pretty good shot. Just finds that little level of the three tiered green. So from a long way from Joe like the ball is in the penalty area in the water. It’s like a very big lie though. That’s a shot where you feel like you stab the the leading edge of the club into the back of the ball with almost no follow through. Should just pop out with no spin and chase on a shot. practice a lot. Requires a lot of touch and feel. Of course, commitment and acceleration just skidded on her. Came up a lot lower than she expected. Almost looked like she tried to play that with a straight face instead of opening up the club face and using loft. It’s tough times if you’re a young Joe fan. Meanwhile, Sun Eugene into 17. Very nicely played. And she’ll be really ruining those early mistakes. While Dion brilliantly throughout the state herself in the lead with 30 effort at 16 yet three players in the final group with passing butts coming up three flag hunting here. No two ways about it. She’ll do that. Stay there. There’s a little spine that could catch it. That could catch it. No. Okay. Stays on the correct level. An aggressive swing from the Australian [Music] final hole in her championship. She’s three under the tour and driving distance. So only a nine into this closing par four. [Music] off that slope a little bit. Beautifully manufactured 16 after a problematic T-shot. It’s not going to go. So back to back birdies proving costly and inopportune time Joe Kimmer on 17 for her birdie with this downhiller. [Music] crucial part where they all this stage of the unfortunate and stay seven under the overnight leader slips it by the right edge. A big moment for Ni who has made really nothing on this back n and it will with dying breath just creeps in over the front edge and Mi Lee grabs a share of the lead Just enough steam on it. A vital birdie, especially with Dion still sweating over this 5-footer for par. A whole behind. Maybe just a part that needs to be started. the left edge. Just looking outside left by the looks of things. Oh, good thing she did. That had a lot of swing in it. That’s a huge putt to keep her tied with Ninji Lee at 8. And might be a case of Dja Vu all over again. Two of them to duke it out in extra time in 2023. Could he be hitting the same way in 2025? Yeah. of Sunu Jin sent some good putts in this back nine. Hasn’t been her day really inside the top five comfortably though at four under go to Edongen 19 who could join her. This a birdie putt with a 68. That’s low. Just a little low. [Music] This is going to be a ninth top 10 finish of the season. Very good year. The 21y old 68 69 was playing on the weekend. Two moss to go. And ninji deadlocked at eight under Hanjo and Hun late on 16 perhaps proving costly. Oh, looks like already set off at the 17th. Speed deflating, you have to say. Three over for her round today. Just sleep on the lead once again. Miraculous finish that might need to go wire to wire. Last this All right. This group’s just fallen behind a little. You tend to see that championship Sundays with the final group. He’s taking time to get prepared and settled in before he pull the trigger. Sh target fairway on 17, but he’s missed it. Stop. Sure. Important T-shot coming up for Mi Lee on 18. You find the fairway, you can attack. You come out of the rough. You got to play defensive. She’s tied for the lead with Edai on. She’s found the fairway. to be said this is probably going to come down to Mi and Dion who’s going to hold their nerve and who’s leaving theirs best with the seventh Hana Financial Group Championship. T-shot in the right hand rough be the high not looking particularly good. It might just force Ed out a little bit further down the right half of this fairway leaving her longer third shot in to want to bring those left bunkers into the equation. [Music] Shortly number one crew leader inserting it into the slope just long left of the pin. Try and use it to slow the ball down towards the target. The slope should start to work its way right. Keep going. Keep going. Yeah, very clever shot by Sun Eugene. Park there just coming up short of the green. It’s a big moment for Lee. So for the bridesmaid at this championship co- lead second shot on the last. Oh, and it just hangs up in the fringe. That’s an unlucky break for Minju. I will have a devilishly quick straight down the hilly. Trying to play the right shot. Just tucked it a fraction. The Lee siblings still on for the sibling double. younger brother Minu Lee te’s off in a couple of hours time in the final round of the French Open. Tied for the lead with none other than fivetime major champion Brooks Kepka. That is certainly going to be a fascinating watch on the DP World Tour this evening. need something special. That counts. Straight at the target. She’s not giving up both despite her missteps over the last couple of holes. Running out of holes. Troy’s got to take it straight at the flag here. She does. Right over the top of it. We’ll have a putt from around 20 ft. could the pressure on Muli up ahead if she could stick it in close here at 17. Nice full pitching wedge from this yardage. Pulling it a fraction. Keeps it on the correct section of the green on. had a nice weekend. in her final round 67 yesterday got her into the penultimate group and looks like she’s going to comfortably finish like the top 10 being solo eighth I think for the last four This does go to a playoff. Jeez, not exactly. Sparkling a loser of the KPJ tour of this championship to Songbar Ernst Eion in 2023. She’s three for three in the LPJ2. One of them being ner at the Mundi Evian Championship in 2021. This post 9 under. It’s a quick one on 18. A great try. Ni Lee who has had heartbreak at the Hana Financial Group Championship. in many an occasion finishes birdie birdie to get to nine under par that sets the clubhouse target and that is the fourth different solo leader we have had on the back nine Sunday one more look at that putt is it the putt for the Australian what a finish said that putter needed to start cooperating and boy did it pick the perfect time to do so. On a heartbreak in 21 and 23 in G Le has now asked Edion the tough question. Can you find a birdie in your last two holes to take us into extra times at this championship? Boy, oh boy, has this final round delivered. It’s still not over. Daniel would have heard a roar from up ahead. She may have been able to guess what caused that. can’t control does she can focus in on is this birdie putt in the 71st hole. [Music] [Music] [Music] It’s good, you know. Oh my goodness. Would you believe it? Eaton birdie 17 to time Lee at 9 under par. Unbelievable stuff we’re witnessing down the stretch at the seventh Hana Financial Group Championship. Not so fast. Mi Tion still has the 18th hole to play. There’s nothing more she can do. It’s been a fabulous day for Mi to take that bogey free 68. Really showing her class. But how about Eion picking up her third birdie in four holes to get to 9 under. And just got a feel for Yuonju and Park Jun’s 9 under par total in the clubhouse. to feel their race is pretty much run but still a lot of money and points to play for it’s not going to go parkin 18 for a closing birdie She’ll get one, two. Great finish there for Eugen. [Music] Tough start, dropping three shots in her first 10 holes. And he did the damage, but that is a classy way to end the week off for Sun Eugen. So fifth for her young for her power. [Music] Well done. Nicely hauled out. Level pass 72 for her. Another top 10 for Parkuni Lee in that amazing finish. Just sign her scorecard and assume stay pretty loose. The range isn’t too far from that 18th green. Very much looking the way of a playoff once again at the Hana Financial Group Championship. Joe can’t get her birdie to drop after that excellent approach. 68 post. Is it going to be good enough for extra holes? championship that she has felt like it owes her. Those close calls through the years. One more look at one of the shots of the tournament. Jay Lee a birdie on the 72nd hole to get to nine under power. And then moments later on a stunning birdie to respond between those two now. Where do we go? You never know. She still has to play. No, I know. I know. They want us to get ready to go. Oh, it’s interesting. the the suits and the tournament committee. and Mji get ready for a playoff. It’s a bit disingenuous to die on who still has the 418th hole to play with that final run hole location. Ninji’s just shown us that hit this fairway Jin. You can craft yourself a decent birdie opportunity to win it outright, but you end up finding the rough particularly the the left rough. Even keeping the ball on the green isn’t an easy assignment. The process is simple. So he going on two good swings here. Give yourself a putt to win. Starts finding the fairway though. [Music] I’m done. also it is a playoff. We’ll just head back down to the 18th and continue to play this par four till a winner is determined. [Music] Heat. Heat. Where’d you [Music] go? I tell you what, you’ve certainly gotten your money’s worth. We found a seat in the pack grandstand at the back of this 18th old. seen some fireworks all throughout Championship Sunday at Bears’s best and there’s a pretty good chance that there may be more golf to play more that Mi can do after that round of 68. Dion can win it outright with a birdie. the 18th hole. Break Mi’s heart once again this tournament station on six and eight stumbling her through the front nine but it was a good closing birdie at the ninth that turned her in par 36 had excellent opportunities to start the back n turning on the style at the Right time. Final birdies at 1415 and most recently at the par 517 got to Nander Park. Good T shot straight down the fairway in the last opportunity to try and set up championship winning 30. But first, it’s Yukon Joe to play. Looked like she was cruising all the way through this final round before cold top in the par 515 led to a bogey. Shares third with the overnight co overnight leader Park Jun. The days it’s going to get a little longer for Yanjun finds the bunker at 18. comes out of this now for Dion. She’s set up championship winning the slip on the left she can use. Just don’t want to be in that right hand bunker. Seems to like it. Is that going to worm its way off the slope? It’s going to come down. It’s going to try. It’s a quality iron shot and she will have that for the title. Solo third is a whole lot better than a share of third up here. Jin with Joe in the green side bunker. 133 left and that’s clumsy. That’s pulled. But that is going to be a slightly easier up and down than what faces Joe. disappointment surely won’t be a journey that by three coming into Sunday just hasn’t been able to get anything happening since her opening birdie at the first down to Edion some great playing over the last hour excellent shot into 18 will have an opportunity a birdie. An outright victory. Take nothing away from that fabulous finish from Mingi Lee. He’s on 17 and a roof raiser on 18. Forced Tion’s hand. This lady potential championship winning putt coming up of the 72nd hole. That’s what you work so hard for as a professional golfer, to put yourself in this position, to have this moment on Sunday afternoon with a tournament on the line. [Music] [Music] That’s okay. [Music] [Music] Come on. [Music] What’s the deal? [Music] [Music] Doesn’t have to over complicate this. Not a good break while staying out of the bunker for Yuan Joe. The lies okay. This is not a difficult shot. Played that very nicely. Really good touch. It’s got to be a little deflating for Yuan Joe and Parkia Jin feeling like they’re playing second fiddle. This dramatic series of events that have unfolded over the past hour or so at Bears’s best even 72 to end the week at 600 par Financial Group Star Champion. Never easy to sleep on the lead. Professional tournament needs to do it three nights in a row as Ari has had to do. A bit windy to wire. Just going to come up short. Slopes down towards the hole from here. So just land it past the fringe. Let the slope do the rest of the work. Nice touch. Leave us with this moment. on 24 months ago which is very green her playoff goal made a 40footer to break Mi’s heart in her financial group championship it’s much shorter but the result could be the same pretty similar line to the responded to the pup that Mi had all the energy from the left fringe. So, we know they should stay fairly straight the last couple of feet is downhill. So, you don’t have to worry about getting the balls at the hole that she’s put the last couple of holes. fancy their chances to very worse scare the cup this effort. So die on the 72nd hole. This birdie putt to win the Hana Financial Week Championship. Oh, it had a look. Strap in, folks. We’re headed for extra time at the Hana Financial Group Championship. And I think that’s only fair if we send it to a sudden death playoff. Fabulous goal from both Mi Lee and that lady with a closing couple of holes here at Bears’s Vest. Sund death playoff commence shortly to crown the seventh champion Financial Group Championship. Oh boy, it’s going to be a good one. It’s going to be a lot of movement around as spectators and fans jockey for position down the fairway. A Jun disappointing 75, but it’ll be a share of third alongside Yu Honjo. Be a second victory in China this season for Park, but good tournament nonetheless for her. For the third time in 5 years, we are going to head to a playoff of the HANA Financial Group Championship. And it is once again going to involve Edion and Mi Lee courtesy of one of the great finishers on the KPJ tour this year. Final birdie on the 72nd hole. Both players deadlocked at 9 under par. Playoff will commence in a couple of moments. Do stick around here with us in Chungna. [Music] [Music] Oh my god. [Music] I mean, I think she knew she had to hold it, but my word to deliver in the moment moment that is why she was one of the best in the women’s game lead and to have to follow that just a couple of moments later almost 400 m away not the best wedge shot but a brilliant birdie number 17 took it a man under as [Music] She happens to win outright 18. Brilliant try. Just wasn’t to be in regulation. [Applause] Look like she hit a good punt. Just a little misread. It’s a game of fine margins. Golf. There’s nothing to separate Lee and Edon down to the AT for a sudden death playoff. This year’s other Financial Group champion. There they go. The carts pass the fans and back to the 18th. took three holes separate them in 2023. It’s a three-way playoff. Patty Tabatanic of Thailand was also involved against Dion and Mi 2025. [Music] [Music] We walk, right? Yeah. It would be weird if we I often wonder when in playoffs when they last forever why they don’t park them like all of them. You know what I mean? They keep going and going and they’re losing daylight. Why they don’t have carts to hold up? Not right now. All right. [Music] Uhoh. Wherever you’re watching us from around the world, it’s safe to say it’s been a enthralling afternoon of some golf which has culminated in a sudden death playoff between Australian NG Lee with the pocket rocket stands at the back of the 18 packed to the brim. Lined a couple deep as well. Looks like Dingji has won the tass and will be leading us off on the first extra hole here at Bears’s Best. equation’s the same. Just got to find the fairway. Give yourself a chance to be aggressive with your second shot. Just like she did in regulation. That’s the left half of the fairway. It’s the pressure Don. [Applause] Dion responds finding the fairway herself. A good chance to thank everyone from around the world for tuning in Sunday afternoon. Captivating stuff at the Hana Financial Group Championship. Whether you’re watching in Australia, in Europe, state side, or here in Asia, or even on YouTube. I’ve been keeping an eye on the on the comments thread in the live chat on the YouTube stream on SPS Golf’s YouTube page, and it’s been highly entertaining. A lot of support for both players, Miy Lee and Edion. Couple of predictions as well that Dion’s going to get it done with a a birdie here on the first extra hole. Have to see if that comes to fruition. Two very efficient golf swings. Two worldass players, but only one the Hana Financial Group Championship. [Music] They are no strangers to each other. This very situation die on getting the best of ninja in 2023. be a chance for sweet revenge for the Australian two years later. is hesitant to use the term hatchway situation but it really is playoff haven’t found the fairway. Z will have the opportunity to hit first. He just put a little bit of pressure. Of course, if Dion does that difficulty, makes shots so much simpler. [Music] Just need to stick to that process, to your thoughts, do know how to play this one, especially to this old location. He’s trying to use that slope as he can. Got a bit unlucky with that whole hang up at the fridge in regulation. Dion’s able to beautiful approach. Unable to convert the B. Too tight to call between these two. Again, I’ve said it since I started doing commentary for the KPJ tour some 4 and 1/2 years ago. Italian’s got one of my favorite swings. South Korea just so technically solid. It’s very good control of the dispersion. There’s a reason why she’s won eight times on this domestic circuit. Expect her to stay aggressive here. Favor the left side of the screen. Use the contours. Oh, now it’s Tion’s turn to get that ball hanging up in the left fringe. So, a little advantage for Gile Lee. Not wasting any time. Mi slight downhill line should flatten out the ball fight a little bit. Touch more cut spin on it as well. She’s got 132 m to go. Oh no. Comes up just a little shy. How about that ball kick that could be bunkered [Music] of momentum for the Australian and back towards the South Korean. Clumsy miss there from Lingi. [Music] Good [Music] [Applause] Good news for Minci is that ball’s rolled into a nice flat spot in the bunker. Certainly simpler just by being on the left fringe of the green. Everything just gently sloping down towards the hole. And she could clean line the bunker. She’s working a little uphill so she can be a touch more aggressive with her effort. You know how good she is from the sand. Remember that excellent bunker shot she hold. That was much harder than this on the 12th hole in the opening round. Hardly had any green to work with. We have another little moment of brilliance for us on Friday to play first. The green sight trap in this sudden death playoff. Excellent shot. I think that’s going to be good enough to secure a four. Now the question is for Eion just cozy one down there to then tap in range and go back towards the team. You try and have your hero moment and win it outright. Another look at this excellent technique from Ni Lee. Get the hands nice and low. Club face wide open. Accelerate into the sand. Pops up nice. High and soft. Just has to be careful with this one. Dion [Music] fertilizer play for today’s final round after the rain we had all week long. Just making sure that this ball rolls smoothly through the three and a 3 4 ft of fringe. before it gets off the green. It’s all downhill the Dion. It’s just about pace this one. Don’t need to give yourself a stressy comeback of the path. Just a matter of controlling your breathing and steadying your nerves. Easy, easy. A bad effort to die on. That’s a little knee knocker left. [Music] remember that playoff in 2023 gen about a two-footer the championship about right the second extra hole see it’s dion little tidler try and get in first with the par four has made some great putts this back n just the birdies 14 15 and 17 think about that big swinging par putt. She had to all on the par 316. This one shouldn’t do too much brake wise. Dion. So have to have to start this outside the edge of the cup. Coming up hill. Just play it pace. Take the brake out of the equation. [Music] No problems for Edion. In with a four likelihood getting back into the golf guard and down to the tea. She just gone through her routine. Relatively straightforward putt for par. Take us back to the tea for the second extra hole. Back down 18 will go again. Trade pass on the first playoff hole. Why not hit back for another playoff between Minjili Lee and Edion continues here at Bears’s best. [Music] What’s that? [Music] So second time of asking second playoff hole in Lee and Edion. And once that uh cameraman on the 183 gets out of the way, I’m sure MJI will quickly stick a peg in the ground and get us underway. Have to say I do appreciate the briskness in which Mi approaches her playing in the game of golf. So play really is a a pandemic. This great game that we all love, rounds that take more than 5 hours to complete, never fun for anyone. So, Lingi leads us off on the second extra hole. Tetronomic swing producing pretty similar results. Slightly better angle now finding the right half of the fairway. much flatter lie than the one she had on the first playoff hole. Can Dion respond like she did a couple of moments ago. Okay. [Music] Diana’s turn to find that little hump on the left hand side of the fairway. So I know that she’s going to have a slightly more hanging lie in Miley Lee. So had to say it’s the advantage Lee in this situation. And to Mi’s Cadd’s point, you wonder why you just don’t get cuts out for playoffs, especially when they start to carry on a little bit. So good to see some effort from the organizers in the tournament committee here at the Hana Financial Group Championship to try to speed up play a little bit. Notice in the past, especially events here in South Korea, playoff carries on more than two holes and don’t be surprised if they change the whole location for the third time out. It’s happened in the past experienced it on both occasions at the playoffs against Suna and Eidon. Looks like he’ll definitely tie on first to play the second playoff hold in a row. Make the best of things the first time round. is pulling her approach to the left but getting her relatively simple up and down if anything is simple in the cauldron of pressure that is a sudden death play off and then Lingi Lee not a poor second just a little poor contact to fly two three yds more to give herself a good birdie look both would get up and down to extend the playoff off Derek Bear’s best really think about the contrasting styles in play, particularly speed of play. Dion much more methodical, much slower player than Mi. Pretty much just settles on a number and a club and pulls the trigger. See that flag just fluttering in the green a little up around the green. Looks like it’s coming off the right. Neither helping nor hurting. Just got to be wary of this slightly hanging line for Da on a bit of a down slope with the ball below her feet. Tends to push the ball out a little right. Solid contact is an absolute must here. That would have been a much better line and it should work off the slope. You go. Clever shot from Edion. That’s pretty similar putt to the one she had in regulation to win balls in your court now. Mi 3 and three playoff record the LPJ tour. 2 and 0 on the ladies European tour and 0 for two KLPJ tour. Oh, that is poor. That’s really poor with only a wedge in hand. Why does it look brilliant for the Australians? Dion in the driver’s seat on this second extra hole. E with work to do. Just control that flight so nicely. Edion, she knew she had a little room left with the slope and she used it to perfection there. [Music] This was really an unforced error from Lee. 122 into the hole from a perfectly flat line and she’s missed the green by that 8 yd 10 yds left into some pretty thick rough. It’s going to find some short game touch if she wants to continue action on Championship Sunday. Hello. Thank you. Just the poor line that left and limit the options that Mi has third shot. Had to deal with the steepest portion downhill slope, but it certainly will be working gently downhill towards that old location. I don’t think she’s got the option to try and play this off the back of the start to try and bump this through the fringe. She’s got to throw the club face a little open. Try and carry it onto the green. Have it chase on out. Get nice check on this caught between club face and ball. Take anything inside of 3 ft. [Music] It’s not bad. Not bad at all. Second time on Sunday afternoon on a birdie but it’s an 18th old to become the first player to win multiple financial group championships. How does it look since the triumph year 2023? three. Couple of close calls already this season for Dion. It’s a slightly different putt to the one that she faced on the 72nd hole. You’ll know what this does. instead a little right to the 18th or first go around this to win. She can’t do it. Oh my goodness. The full 360 lip out. Drama continues at Bear’s best. Oh, that looked in all the way and somehow the ball stays above ground. That’s just golf, isn’t it? You can do everything right and that silly little ball somehow finds a way to stay out of the cup. [Music] After all, that ninjap, [Music] a second lease of life in this playoff. It’s a bit of a stressy one to keep things going. Just from here, it’s one of those tricky parts where you’re trying to work out if you need to start it outside left lip or just on the left lip. To say given the circumstances, take the break out of it. Don’t give the hole away. Just play it with pace. This to extend the playoff for Lee. Nope, not going to go. And it’s Hana. Heartbreak for Mi Lee once more who falls on the second extra hole to Edion. [Music] Dion does it again. Absolutely terrific stuff. Back in the winner circle after a epic Sunday showdown with one of the best in the women’s game. It took two holes of extra time, but Edon claims a second Hana Financial Group Championship title. [Music] And it’s relief and elation for the 28-year-old who picks up her ninth KPJ tour victory on the very same green where she won her eighth two years ago. She’s a big game hunter. Huge talent. Has had her issues with injury through the years. always plays a bit of a limited schedule, but she is going to take so much confidence and great pride in this victory. Many congratulations, Edion, your 2025 champion here at the Hana Financial Group Championship. Again, full credit to Ni Lee who gave herself every chance with that amazing birdie birdie finish. Somehow that ball didn’t go. It wouldn’t matter. He’s missed Papa Harper ending the title to die on and lead can’t help but feel a little disappointed. Found a fairway both times in the playoff and then couldn’t hit the green with a short eye and a wedge in hand. Just relief across the face of EJ. Played some sparkling golf and played her part to deliver drama world class golf when it mattered most on championship Sunday. A deserving winner in 2025. [Music] [Applause] Don’t get [Music] [Music] You are a They don’t touch you first. Beautiful. You got it. She’s sorry. Speech. Speech. Speech. [Music] Soch. [Music] Come [Music] there. I’m speech. Need that. Wow. How do you reflect on what an amazing day it was at Bears’s best? We’re going to try our best though. It will start with the overnight leader. Parkia Jr. was looking to go wire towire this week. started off her day brilliantly with a birdie at the opening hole, but had her struggles at the par 4 third, ultimately taking a double bogey. What was a threeshot lead evaporating into the slimmest of margins the 10th we thought the reigning star champion Yuang Jo last year’s rookie of the year was going to assert her dominance on the top of the leaderboard. a birdie there taking her to the top of the pile. And then Mi Lee needed the putter to start heating up and it certainly did that on the 11th with a vital birdie keeping her title hopes alive. Fortunately for Park Jun, it was a bogey that dropped her back alongside Lee at seven under handing the solo lead to Yu Hy Joe. But little did we know there were more twists and turns to come on the back ninj. So very nearly a birdie there on the 14th be the only 360 lip out we saw on championship Sunday. didn’t know at that time of course [Music] the championship you figured it was very much a a four-h horsese race between Dion Mi Hyanju and Park Jun Dion’s timely birdie on the 14th make it a threeway tie for second place just one shot behind Yu Hon Joe who was in cruise control before this shot on 15 a cold top into the penalty area for the championship leader who at up to that point had looked unflapable. Dion however as she has done so many times in her career would pounce backing up a birdie on 14 with a stellar wedot and a nicely hold on 15. A two shot swing with Joe making bogey dion making birdie. All of a sudden she found herself at eight under had a chance to tie was unable to capitalize on. To be fair, Joe did very well to limit the damage to just one. And on the 16th, things would go from bad to worse. The 20-year-old, a poor T-shot, left her in the weeds. go on to back-to- back podies to effectively thwart her chances. Her second victory of the season a shot on 16 as well as Park Jun on 17 in the penultimate group needed something special. She knew she needed at least a birdie coming home. And this one just had enough speed for Mi Lee to grab a share of the lead with Edion. Then this remarkable finish to the Australians round. [Music] A much needed birdie in a pressure pack situation. Lee would post nine underpar as the clubhouse target because moments later on the 71st hole, Dion would respond in another moment of brilliance. [Music] And there were two at nine under par, but Tion still had the 18th to play. [Music] She gave herself a chance to win outright. Her birdie butt from 12 ft just slipping by the right edge for the third time in 5 years headed to a playoff. The Anna Financial Group Championship on the line for the second time in three years. The playoff would involve Minji Lee and Eid. The first playoff, Lee found itself in the bunker, but calmly knocked it out. Pretty much tapping range to secure her four. Dion got a little racy with her birdie putt from the left fringe. Thankfully, both would make their putts. Then another clumsy wet shot from the middle of the fairway. Left lead in an awkward position. A nice little pit shot, but still a little meat left on that bone for P. and a similar putt to the one she had in regulation. And somehow this lipped out. She settled for par. Put the pressure back on Lee [Music] to make this putt to extend the playoff. It wouldn’t drop. Hana heartbreak for Mji Lee again in a playoff for jubilation for Edion who claims victory in 2025. [Music] [Applause] Fore [Applause] speech. [Applause] [Music] Facebook. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Have it all. [Applause] [Music] Daily Club. [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] Daily speech. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Dancing. Championship. Yeah. [Music] [Music] [Music] Sorry. Foreign [Music] speech. Foreign speech. [Music] [Music] [Music] Look at this. [Music] One. Wow. foreign. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] We are [Music] [Laughter] speech. Speech. Speech. [Music] Facebook. Tuesday. [Laughter] Come on. [Music] [Music] Good afternoon. [Music] [Music] Well, many congratulations once again to our winner of this year’s Hana Financial group championship. It’s been another stunning week here at Bears Best in South Korea and thank you wherever you watch us around the world for your company over these last four days. It’s been a privilege as always to bring you the best of golf from the KPJ tour and certainly look forward to your company next week when we teed up at Blue Heron for the Height Ginro Championship. Until then, have a lovely Sunday ahead. I’m Timothy Low saying bye-bye for now and we’ll see you next time on the KPGA tour. Let’s [Applause] go. [Applause] [Music]