2012 Korean Tour

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The 2012 Korean Tour was the second season of the Korean Tour to carry Official World Golf Ranking points. The season consisted of 13 events, seven of which were co-sanctioned by other tours. All the tournament had prize funds of at least 400 million won (approximately US$350,000). Four had prize funds of 1 billion won (US$900,000) while the Ballantine's Championship has a prize fund of 2.2 million euros (approximately US$2.9 million).

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
29 Apr Ballantine's Championship Icheon €2,205,000 Austria Bernd Wiesberger (n/a) 32 Co-sanctioned by European Tour and Asian Tour
13 May GS Caltex Maekyung Open Seongnam 1,000,000,000 South Korea Kim Bi-o (2) 10 Co-sanctioned by OneAsia Tour
20 May SK Telecom Open Seogwipo 900,000,000 South Korea Kim Bi-o (3) 10 Co-sanctioned by OneAsia Tour
3 Jun Yeoju 500,000,000 South Korea (3) 6
24 Jun Jecheon $300,000 South Korea Lee In-woo (2) 14 Co-sanctioned by Asian Tour
1 Jul Nagasaki $200,000 Korea n/a Team match between Korea and Japan
2 Sep SBS Tour Happiness KJB KPGA Championship Naju 500,000,000 South Korea (2) 6
9 Sep Jeongseon 1,000,000,000 Australia Matthew Griffin (1) 6 Co-sanctioned by OneAsia Tour
16 Sep Dongbu Insurance Promy Open Hoengseong 400,000,000 South Korea Kim Dae-sub (8) 6
23 Sep Munsingwear Matchplay Championship Pyeongchang 600,000,000 South Korea (3) 6
7 Oct CJ Invitational Yeoju $750,000 South Korea K. J. Choi (16) 14 Co-sanctioned by Asian Tour
14 Oct Shinhan Donghae Open Incheon 1,000,000,000 South Korea Kim Meen-whee (1) 12
21 Oct Kolon Korea Open Cheonan 1,000,000,000 South Korea Kim Dae-sub (9) 12 Co-sanctioned by OneAsia Tour
28 Oct Pocheon 400,000,000 South Korea (1) 6

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 2995 13
2 South Korea 2720 14
3 South Korea Kim Dae-sub 2620 7
4 South Korea Kim Bi-o 2300 3
5 South Korea 2180 12

Source: [1]

Prize money leaders[]

Rank Player Money (KRW) Events
1 South Korea Kim Bi-o 444,000,000 3
2 South Korea Kim Dae-sub 398,493,137 5
3 South Korea 332,562,772 12
4 South Korea Park Sang-hyun 308,326,923 10
5 South Korea 307,189,457 6

'Events' refers to the number of tournaments in which the player won prize money.

Source: [1]

References[]

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

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