The first-ever Blue Canyon Championship will see a field of 72 golfers — consisting of 60 KLPGA golfers and 12 invitees — vie for the biggest slice of a total $650,000 purse.
Kim claimed her first-ever title at the KLPGA's 2024 season opener, notching the memorable win on her 23rd birthday.
The 2024 KLPGA season starts Thursday with the Hana Financial Group Singapore Women’s Open teeing off at the Tanah Merah Country Club in Singapore.
The KLPGA has cut short Yoon Ina's suspension for playing the wrong ball at the 2022 Korea Women's Open, permitting the temporarily-barred golfer to return to the field for the upcoming 2024 season.
Professional women’s golfers in Korea could soon get paid for giving birth, according to a new childbirth incentive for athletes on the sport’s domestic tour amid a nationwide population decline.
Hong Jung-min will have a busy golf season next year, as she is set to compete on both the Ladies European Tour (LET) and LPGA Tour. “Since I have competed in Korea for three years, it is time for me to get out of my comfort zone,” Hong said.
Im Jin-hee clinched the final KLPGA title of the season, carding 16-under par, 200, to win the three-round, no-cut SK Shieldus-SK Telecom Championship on Sunday.
The SK Shieldus-SK Telecom Championship tees off at La Vie est Belle Golf & Resort in Chuncheon, Gangwon on Friday. Defending champion Park Min-ji and multiple previous winners of the season will vie for a chance to lift the last trophy of the year.
Sung finished the third round with a 12-under-par, 204, and had to retain her momentum through the last day, but it turned out to be unnecessary as the KLGPA canceled the final round due to the weather and named Sung as the final winner.
A field of 96 golfers have tee times in Jeju on Thursday as the KLPGA Tour’s S-Oil Championship kicks off the beginning of the season’s end.
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