Mun gatecrashes Maekyung Open with thrilling triumph

Korean Mun Do-Yeob won the Maekyung Open after a sensational back nine birdie-fest saw him shoot a sizzling bogey-free eight-under-par 63.

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Mun, six behind the leaders at the start of the day and playing nine groups ahead of the final pairing, stormed through with six birdies on the second half — including four-in-row from the 11th — to win by three shots from Thailand’s Jazz Janewattananond, plus Koreans Kim Baek-Jun and Lee Jung-Hwan.

Mun posted his 10-under par total two hours before the final players finished, anxiously waiting to see if he would be caught.

Jazz missed makeable birdie putts on 14 and 15 and later bogeyed the last while Canadian Yonggu Shin birdied 13 and 14 to move one back but then dropped a shot on the 17th, before a catastrophic 10 on 18. He ended in a tie for 12th.