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The 2019 Korean Tour was the ninth season of the Korean Tour to carry Official World Golf Ranking points. The season consisted of 15 official events Three events are co-sanctioned with the Asian Tour, one of which was also co-sanctioned with the Japan Golf Tour. All the tournaments had prize funds of at least 500 million won (approximately US$500,000). Nine had prize funds of 1 billion won ($1,000,000) or more.

Tournament schedule

The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Korean Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament.

Date Tournament Location Prize fund
(KRW)		 Winner OWGR
points		 Notes
21 Apr DB Insurance Promy Open Pocheon 500,000,000 Canada Richard T. Lee (2) 9
28 Apr NS HomeShopping Gunsan CC Jeonbuk Open Gunsan 500,000,000 South Korea Kim Bi-o (4) 9
5 May GS Caltex Maekyung Open Seongnam 1,200,000,000 South Korea Lee Tae-hee (3) 12 Co-sanctioned with the Asian Tour
12 May Huons Elravie Celebrity Pro-Am Incheon 600,000,000 South Korea Jeon Ga-lam (2) 9
19 May SK Telecom Open Incheon 1,200,000,000 South Korea Ham Jeong-woo (1) 9
26 May KB Financial Liiv Championship Icheon 700,000,000 South Korea Seo Hyung-seok (2) 9
9 Jun Descente Korea Munsingwear Matchplay Namhae 1,000,000,000 South Korea Lee Hyung-joon (5) 9
16 Jun KEB Hana Bank Invitational Yongin 1,200,000,000 South Korea Seo Yo-seop (1) 9
23 Jun Kolon Korea Open Cheonan 1,200,000,000 Thailand Jazz Janewattananond (n/a) 13 Co-sanctioned with the Asian Tour
30 Jun KPGA Championship Yangsan 1,000,000,000 Australia Won Joon Lee (1) 9
1 Sep Woosung Construction Aramir CC Busan Gyeongnam Open Changwon 500,000,000 South Korea Lee Jae-kyeong (1) 9 New tournament
22 Sep Shinhan Donghae Open Incheon 1,200,000,000 South Africa Jbe' Kruger (n/a) 14 Co-sanctioned with the Asian Tour
and Japan Golf Tour
29 Sep DGB Financial Group Volvik Daegu Gyeongbuk Open Gumi 500,000,000 South Korea Kim Bi-o (5) 9
6 Oct Hyundai Insurance KJ Choi Invitational Gimhae 1,000,000,000 South Korea Lee Soo-min (3) 9
13 Oct Genesis Championship Incheon 1,500,000,000 South Korea Im Sung-jae (1) 9

Source: [1]

Genesis Points table

The Order of Merit used a points system, called Genesis Points. Points were awarded based on the player's position in each event. 1,000 points were awarded to the winner, 600 points for second place, down to 5 points for those finishing outside the top 60. All 15 events had the same points. Moon Kyong-jun did not win any tournaments but had 7 top-10 finishes.

Rank Player Points Events
1 South Korea Moon Kyong-jun 4126 15
2 South Korea Lee Soo-min 3780 15
3 South Korea Ham Jeong-woo 3529 14
4 South Korea Lee Hyung-joon 3260 15
5 South Korea Seo Hyung-seok 3127 15

Source: [2]

Prize money leaders

Rank Player Money (KRW) Events
1 South Korea Lee Soo-min 469,948,101 15
2 South Korea Ham Jeong-woo 404,922,935 14
3 South Korea Seo Yo-seop 378,703,241 15
4 South Korea Lee Hyung-joon 358,730,918 15
5 South Korea Lee Tae-hee 345,203,713 11

Source: [3]

References

  1. ^ "Korean Tour Schedule" (in Korean). KPGA. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Genesis Points" (in Korean). KPGA. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Genesis Prize Ranking" (in Korean). KPGA. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
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