Tae-hoon Ok, the reigning Korea PGA Tour money list winner, was disqualified from the KPGA Tour’s Woori Financial Championship after running out of golf balls during round two.
The 27-year-old, who won three times last season and earned MVP honors, opened with a level-par 71 and showed steady form early in round two. However, his round unraveled at the par-4 fifth, where he made a quintuple-bogey nine after a series of poor shots from rough, leaves, and bunker. Despite briefly recovering with a par, disaster struck at the par-5 seventh when he repeatedly drove balls off a cliff, losing six in total. Under the KPGA’s strict one-ball rule, he could not replace them with a different ball, forcing his withdrawal.
Ok had taken 134 strokes by that point, comfortably within the projected cut line, making the disqualification especially costly.