Park Reaches 2023 ATB Okotoks Classic Quarters

SKIP
Jongduk
Park

Third
Yeongseok
Jeong

Second
Seunghoon
Oh

Lead
Jihoon
Seong

Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR) qualified for the 2023 ATB Okotoks Classic playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 7-4 against Brendan Bottcher (Calgary, AB).

Park finished 4-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Park lost 8-2 to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB), droppimg another game, 8-4 to Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK) where Park responded with a 9-3 win over Rob Johnson (Calgary, AB). Park won 9-3 against Cole Adams (Calgary, AB), then won 7-5 against Kleiter and 7-6 against Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) in their final qualifying round match.

Park earned 18.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the ATB Okotoks Classic. Park move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 3 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 57th overall with 74.813 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Park ranks 18th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 34.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	41	30	0	0.577	11-1	6-6	7-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	540	402	374	7.44	6.93	0.52	4.35	4.20	1.71	1.65	1.44

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	258	307	72	36	8-1	27-3	56-11	1.19	0.28	0.41	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	282	95	302	42	3-6	5-22	12-61	0.34	1.07	0.49	0.23

2023: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert , Paul Webster
Calgary, AB
2022: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2021: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, John Morris, B.J. Neufeld, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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