Current season, competition or edition: 2021 Korean Tour |
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| Sport | Golf |
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| Countries | Based in South Korea. |
| Official website | http://www.kpga.co.kr/ |
The Korean Tour is a men ‘s professional golf tour run by the Korea Professional Golfers ‘ Association ( KPGA ) of South Korea. In 2011, it had total prize money of about US $ 14 million. professional golf in Korea dates bet on to the mid twentieth hundred. The korean Professional Golf Championship and the korean Open were launched in 1958 and the KPGA was founded in 1963. respective other tournaments were created over the adopt decades. The KPGA ‘s tours serve as feeders for richer tour around the world. substantial numbers of korean golfers have played on the asian Tour and the Japan Golf Tour, and a few have made it onto the PGA Tour or the european Tour. celebrated examples include Yang Yong-eun, who was the first korean to win a men ‘s major golf championship, and K. J. Choi, the first Korean-born PGA Tour achiever whose most celebrated win was the 2011 Players Championship.
Reading: Korean Tour – Wikipedia
Main tour [edit ]
In 2011, there were 17 events on the main tour. All these tournament have prize funds of at least 300 million north korean won ( approximately US $ 300,000 ). Four have prize funds of 1 billion won ( US $ 1 million ) while the Ballantine ‘s Championship has a loot fund of 2.2 million euro ( approximately US $ 3.1 million ). full respect money for the tour is approximately 12 billion won ( US $ 12 million ). Until 2011, regular korean Tour events did not carry Official World Golf Ranking points. The first regular tournament to carry World Rankings Points was the 2011 Twayair Open. [ 1 ] korean Tour events carry a minimum of nine OWGR points for the winner, increased from six in 2016 .
order of Merit winners [edit ]
The ordain of Merit uses a points system, presently called Genesis Points .
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multiple winners [edit ]
other KPGA tours [edit ]
The KPGA launched a developmental go in 1999. In 2007 there are two developmental tours. Both of them consist of two-day, 36-hole tournaments, and the dates of the tours do not clash. The Bear River Tour consists of ten tournaments with prize funds of 60 million acquire ( US $ 60,000 ) each, and the SBS Golf Calloway Tour has eight tournaments with respect funds of 40 million north korean won ( US $ 40,000 ) each. The KPGA besides runs a aged go and a series of events for teaching pros. The korean Senior Open Golf Championship was launched in 1996. Women ‘s professional golf has a high profile in South Korea, due to the huge external achiever of korean women golfers such as Se Ri Pak since the mid-1990s. There is a separate LPGA of Korea Tour for women .