2020 Korean Tour

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The 2020 Korean Tour was the tenth season of the Korean Tour to carry Official World Golf Ranking points. The season consisted of 11 official events. All the tournaments had prize funds of at least 500 million won (approximately US$500,000). Six 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
5 Jul Changwon 500,000,000 South Korea (2) 9
12 Jul KPGA Gunsan CC Open Gunsan 500,000,000 South Korea Kim Joo-hyung (1) 9
19 Jul Taean 500,000,000 South Korea Lee Soo-min (4) 9
9 Aug KPGA Championship Yangsan 1,000,000,000 South Korea Kim Seong-hyeon (1) 9
23 Aug GS Caltex Maekyung Open Chuncheon 1,000,000,000 South Korea (4) 4 54-hole event
30 Aug Pocheon 500,000,000 South Korea (1) 9
13 Sep Shinhan Donghae Open Incheon 1,400,000,000 South Korea (2) 9
27 Sep Hyundai Insurance KJ Choi Invitational Yeoju 1,000,000,000 South Korea (2) 9
11 Oct Genesis Championship Incheon 1,500,000,000 South Korea Kim Tae-hoon (4) 9
25 Oct Jeju 500,000,000 Australia (2) 9
8 Nov Paju 1,000,000,000 United States Seungsu Han (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 11 events had the same points.

Rank Player Points Events
1 South Korea Kim Tae-hoon 3251.70 11
2 South Korea 3039.00 10
3 South Korea 3025.55 10
4 South Korea 2706.58 11
5 South Korea 2630.55 11

Source: [2]

Prize money leaders[]

Rank Player Money (KRW) Events
1 South Korea Kim Tae-hoon 495,932,449 11
2 South Korea 422,709,505 10
3 South Korea 362,417,488 10
4 South Korea 289,396,879 11
5 United States Seungsu Han 282,535,417 9

Source: [3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Korean Tour Schedule" (in Korean). KPGA. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Genesis Points" (in Korean). KPGA. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Genesis Prize Ranking" (in Korean). KPGA. Retrieved 8 November 2020.

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