GS Caltex Maekyung Open: downpour cuts tournament to 54 holes, ‘Korean Hulk’ Jung Chan-min still leads
- Flooding of bunkers and fairways causes reduction to three rounds for only the second time in the event’s four-decade history
- ‘My strategy this weekend is to persevere and wait for an opportunity,’ Jung says
The GS Caltex Maekyung Open has been reduced to 54 holes after Saturday’s third round was washed out on another rainy day in South Korea.
The third and now final round will restart on Sunday at 7.50am local time at Namseoul Country Club.
Only a handful of groups teed off when play eventually started at 11.30am local time, before the round was cancelled just 40 minutes later.
“Because we have had rain since last night, the bunkers and the fairways are full of water, so after discussing the situation with the Korean Golf Association we decided the course is unplayable,” Chokchai Boonprasert, the tournament director, said.
“We will start round three on Sunday and we will complete the tournament in 54 holes.”
Unheralded Korean Jung Chan-min leads the tournament after two rounds. He is 11 under, two ahead of Korea’s Lee Jungh-wan and four ahead of his compatriots Jang Yu-bin, an amateur, Jung Tae-yang, and Bio Kim, the defending champion.
