Jeong is the last amateur standing
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July 18, 2010, Sunday
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HE only had four hours' sleep but Jeong Jin's early rise was well worth it, the South Korean all but ensuring the best amateur title at the British Open and earning an outside chance of the Claret Jug itself.
Jeong was up with the dawn chorus yesterday to complete his second round after battering winds had curtailed play on Friday. He duly sank a birdie at the 18th when play resumed to take his score to six under and confirmed he was the only amateur to survive the halfway cut.
The Silver Medal guaranteed so long as he completes 72 holes, he held a share of third place and went out in the third round with the likes of three-time champion Tiger Woods and world No. 2 Phil Mickelson several groups ahead of him.
"I only had about four hours' sleep having finished quite late last night, then got up early this morning to go to the practice ground," the dapper 20-year-old said by the 18th green.
The Australia-based player withstood most of the barrage the weather threw at the players on Friday with four birdies and two bogeys in one of the few rounds to beat par.
He has already shown his love for the Scottish links and Muirfield in particular where last month he became the first Asian to win the British amateur championship since the event's inception 125 years ago.
"It was a nice way to finish with a birdie at the last," he said.
Now that a second world class amateur accolade has been secured, he said he hoped he could play without pressure and try to reel in leader Louis Oosthuizen.
Jeong was up with the dawn chorus yesterday to complete his second round after battering winds had curtailed play on Friday. He duly sank a birdie at the 18th when play resumed to take his score to six under and confirmed he was the only amateur to survive the halfway cut.
The Silver Medal guaranteed so long as he completes 72 holes, he held a share of third place and went out in the third round with the likes of three-time champion Tiger Woods and world No. 2 Phil Mickelson several groups ahead of him.
"I only had about four hours' sleep having finished quite late last night, then got up early this morning to go to the practice ground," the dapper 20-year-old said by the 18th green.
The Australia-based player withstood most of the barrage the weather threw at the players on Friday with four birdies and two bogeys in one of the few rounds to beat par.
He has already shown his love for the Scottish links and Muirfield in particular where last month he became the first Asian to win the British amateur championship since the event's inception 125 years ago.
"It was a nice way to finish with a birdie at the last," he said.
Now that a second world class amateur accolade has been secured, he said he hoped he could play without pressure and try to reel in leader Louis Oosthuizen.
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