By Keely Levins
Imagine hitting so many fairways that you don’t even notice that you’ve gone 46 holes without missing one? That’s what happened to at the BMW Ladies Championship. The 21-year-old from South Korea hit every fairway in the first round at LPGA International Busan and again in the second round before finally missing the fairway on the 11th hole of her third round. When she was asked about ending that streak by the media on Saturday, her answer was a bit shocking.

“I wasn’t necessarily aware of the fact that that was the first fairway that I missed during this event. But I’m not really used to missing the fairway. I usually keep the fairway pretty well,” Lim said. “So being in the rough itself was a bit awkward I would have to say.”

Lim is a member of the Korean LPGA Tour (KLPGA), where she has won four times including a major title and has earned the nickname Stone Budda. The BMW is just her fifth career LPGA Tour event.

Lim has another streak going at the BMW: She’s yet to make a bogey during the tournament, posting scores of 67-66-65 to set the 54-hole tournament scoring mark at 18-under 198. Lim has a four-shot lead over World No. 2 Jin Young Ko and fellow KLPGA member, Na Rin Ryu. If she were to win on Sunday as a non-member of the LPGA, she would have the opportunity to accept full LPGA Tour status, something she’s had her sights on for some time.

“I think when I started with golf, my ultimate goal was to make it to the LPGA,” Lim said. “And I would always see other players who would win the LPGA Tour events and automatically get to go to the LPGA, and I always kind of wanted that route for myself as well. So I think I have a really good opportunity in front of me. But I always thought that I wanted to build my competency here in Korea and then later, perhaps when I’m more ready, go to the LPGA. But I think I’m ready to grab the opportunity if it presents itself.”

After the missed fairway at 11, Lim hit the rest of the remaining fairways in the round. And that one missed fairway didn’t even matter: She birdied No. 11 anyway.

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PGA and LPGA event marketing teams can get pretty creative with the hospitality goodies they give players, but this is hands down the weirdest one we’ve seen yet.

As seen on Danielle Kang’s Instagram story, players who arrived at the BMW Ladies Championship at LPGA International Busan in Busan, Korea this week received a metal tin with a traditional Korean dalgona cookie inside. The toffee-like desserts were featured in the third episode of ‘Squid Game,’ the viral Korean Netflix show that’s driving the internet bonkers.

Squid Game has officially reached 111 million fans — making it our biggest series launch ever! pic.twitter.com/SW3FJ42Qsn

— Netflix (@netflix) October 12, 2021

Without the nightmarish context of the dystopian show, the cookies would be a lighthearted and fitting welcome gift, considering the dessert originated in Korea. But when you’ve seen ‘Squid Game,’ the sight is not a pleasant one.

Danielle Kang’s cookie before …

Danielle Kang’s cookie after …

In the show, hundreds of people are invited to play a series of Korean children’s games to win millions of dollars, but the stakes are life and death. The dalgona cookies were the star of the second “game,” where players were tasked with carving intricate shapes out of the delicate honeycomb cookies with just a pin, in less than ten minutes. Each player is forced to choose a shape before hearing the premise of the game – leaving some with a simple triangle to carve, and others with the ridiculously challenging outline of an umbrella. Let’s just say that if a player failed to complete the challenge and broke even a fraction of their cookie, the results weren’t very pretty.

Despite the initial shock, several LPGA players tried their hand at the game and shared the results on social media.

Some were successful:

 

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Others…not so much. Ouch.

 

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