2008 Korean Tour

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The 2008 Korean Tour was a season on the Korean Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments. The table below shows the season results.

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 Notes
16 Mar Ballantine's Championship South Korea Seogwipo 3,106,820,000 Northern Ireland Graeme McDowell (n/a) Co-sanctioned by European Tour and Asian Tour
23 Mar KEB Invitational (1st tournament) China Suzhou 400,000,000 South Korea Bae Sang-moon (3)
7 Apr Japan Daisen 300,000,000 South Korea (2)
20 Apr SK Telecom Open South Korea Incheon 600,000,000 South Korea K. J. Choi (13)
27 Apr South Korea Jeju 300,000,000 South Korea Kim Hyung-sung (2)
4 May GS Caltex Maekyung Open South Korea Seongnam 600,000,000 South Korea Hwang Inn-choon (2) Co-sanctioned by Asian Tour
25 May South Korea Haman 300,000,000 Australia (1)
1 Jun South Korea Yongin 500,000,000 South Korea Hwang Inn-choon (3)
15 Jun South Korea Pocheon 300,000,000 South Korea Hur In-hoi (1)
22 Jun South Korea Pocheon 300,000,000 South Korea Kim Hyung-sung (3)
31 Aug South Korea Jeju 300,000,000 South Korea Kang Wook-soon (10)
7 Sep South Korea Seongju 300,000,000 South Korea (1)
21 Sep KEB Invitational (2nd tournament) South Korea Hoengseong 400,000,000 South Korea Kim Dae-sub (5)
28 Sep South Korea Gapyeong 600,000,000 Australia (1)
5 Oct Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open South Korea Cheonan 1,000,000,000 South Korea Bae Sang-moon (4) Co-sanctioned by Asian Tour
12 Oct Shinhan Donghae Open South Korea Yongin 700,000,000 South Korea K. J. Choi (14)
19 Oct South Korea Yeoju 500,000,000 South Korea (3)
1 Nov SBS Dongbu Insurance Promy Cup
Eden Valley Resort Matchplay Championship		 South Korea Yangsan 300,000,000 South Korea (5)
9 Nov SBS Hana Tour Championship South Korea Hoengseong 300,000,000 South Korea Choi Ho-sung (1)
16 Nov NH NongHyup KPGA Championship South Korea Pocheon 500,000,000 Australia (2)

Order of Merit[]

The Order of Merit used a points system. Points were awarded based on the player's position in each event.

Rank Player Points Events
1 South Korea Kim Hyung-sung 5765 19
2 South Korea Kim Dae-sub 3395 19
3 South Korea Bae Sang-moon 3375 13
4 South Korea Kang Sung-hoon 3030 19
5 South Korea 2730 19

Source: [1]

Prize money leaders[]

Rank Player Money (KRW) Events
1 South Korea Bae Sang-moon 470,654,286 11
2 South Korea Kim Hyung-sung 356,158,000 16
3 South Korea Kim Dae-sub 270,824,190 17
4 South Korea K. J. Choi 270,000,000 2
5 South Korea Hwang Inn-choon 265,100,200 13

'Events' refers to the number of tournaments in which the player won prize money. Prize money won in the Ballantine's Championship did not count.

Source: [1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Korean Tour Record" (in Korean). KPGA. Retrieved 28 November 2018.[permanent dead link]

External links[]

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