The situation is fierce after the third round of Lexus Challenge
In the final round of the Lexus Challenge 2023, Chi Quan scored the most birdies - seven times, and at the same time touched a record of 66 strokes on the VGA Tour set by Joel Troy at the grand final of the Tour Championship in the opening season, at Thanh Lanh par72. in Vinh Phuc in the last month of 2022. But that ecstatic performance only pushed him up behind Khanh Hung.
When entering the match on The Bluffs par71, Khanh Hung, 15 years old, kept the top of the table, at -6, while Chi Quan, born in 1998, was at T2 (-1) with the defending champion Nguyen Anh Minh, 16 years old and still wearing. amateur.
These three players started the last round together, from hole 1 on the morning of February 23. Minh and Chi Quan immediately scored bogey, and Khanh Hung birdie.
Halfway through, Khanh Hung dropped to -5 due to two bogeys from holes 7 to 9 while Anh Minh scored five birdies, Chi Quan four birdies. And so, Khanh Hung had to stand T1 with his teammates at SEA Games 31, Chi Quan was next at -4.
Through seven more holes, Khanh Hung scored three birdies to push the top of the table to -8, at hole 16. In the same place, Chi Quan reached -6 and stood next, right above Anh Minh -4.
On hole 17, Khanh Hung suddenly scored a double bogey, making the score -6. There, Chi Quan got the same score as Anh Minh but accidentally monopolized the top of the table. In the last hole, Khanh Hung and Anh Minh both took birdies, Chi Quan kept par.
With this result, Khanh Hung led three consecutive rounds of Lexus Challenge 2023, finishing the third match at -7, leaving one stroke away from Chi Quan, and Anh Minh ranked third (-5). The finish line is less likely to get into the top 3 when Anh Minh is six strokes above fourth place. Last year, Khanh Hung shared the runner-up with Chi Quan and Anh Minh at the age of 15 established a +3 victory. With that result, Anh Minh became the first and youngest amateur to own a cup in the history of professional golf in Vietnam.
The Lexus Challenge men's table this period has a bonus fund of 1.8 billion VND, of which the champion is 324 million VND.
The prize also has a women's table like the previous period, with the bonus budget doubled, to 200 million dong, including 60 million dong for the cup holder. This branch ended round 3 with the lead going to Lina Kim, at +8. Kim is followed by Ngo Bao Nghi (+9), defending champion Nguyen Thao My (+10), Le Chuc An (+14).
