SEOUL – Golf joined baseball and soccer on Thursday as sports in South Korea that are back in action. The women’s KLPGA Championship started with three players — Bae Seon-woo, Kim Char-young2 and Hyun Se-lin — tied at the top of the leaderboard at 5-under 67.
Three more players were a shot behind. The tournament is being played without fans and with players using hand sanitizers and following social-distancing rules.
Caddies wore masks and players were allowed to play without them. Defending champion Choi Hye-jin (69) was two strokes back.
Like many players, she did not know how to react with no gallery and no applause. “I birdied the first hole, and I didn’t know how I should celebrate it,” she told South Korean news agency Yonhap. ”I made