Year: | 2008 |
Tour: | Korean Tour |
Regular Season: | – |
No Of Events: | 20 |
Most Wins: | Bae Sang-moon (2) K. J. Choi (2) Hwang Inn-choon (2) Kim Hyung-sung (2) Andrew McKenzie (2) |
Honor1: | Order of Merit |
Honoree1: | Kim Hyung-sung |
Honor2: | Player of the Year |
Honoree2: | Kim Hyung-sung |
Honor3: | Rookie of the Year |
Honoree3: | Kang Sung-hoon |
Prevseason: | 2007 |
Nextseason: | 2009 |
The 2008 Korean Tour, titled as the 2008 SBS Korean Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 31st season on the Korean Tour, the main professional golf tour in South Korea since it was formed in 1978.
It was the fourth season of the tour under a title sponsorship agreement with Seoul Broadcasting System, that was announced in June 2004.[1]
The following table lists official events during the 2008 season.[2]
Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (₩) | Winner | OWGR points | Other tours | Notes | |
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16 Mar | Jeju | €2,000,000 | Graeme McDowell (n/a) | 28 | New tournament | |||
23 Mar | KEB Invitational (1st) | China | 400,000,000 | Bae Sang-moon (3) | n/a | New tournament | ||
7 Apr | Japan | 300,000,000 | Lee Seong-ho (2) | n/a | New tournament | |||
20 Apr | Gyeonggi | 600,000,000 | K. J. Choi (13) | n/a | ||||
27 Apr | Jeju | 300,000,000 | Kim Hyung-sung (2) | n/a | ||||
4 May | Gyeonggi | 600,000,000 | Hwang Inn-choon (2) | 14 | ||||
25 May | South Gyeongsang | 300,000,000 | Andrew Tschudin (1) | n/a | ||||
1 Jun | Gyeonggi | 500,000,000 | Hwang Inn-choon (3) | n/a | ||||
15 Jun | Gyeonggi | 300,000,000 | Hur In-hoi (1) | n/a | New tournament | |||
22 Jun | Gyeonggi | 300,000,000 | Kim Hyung-sung (3) | n/a | ||||
31 Aug | Jeju | 300,000,000 | Kang Wook-soon (10) | n/a | New tournament | |||
7 Sep | North Gyeongsang | 300,000,000 | Kim Wi-joong (1) | n/a | ||||
21 Sep | KEB Invitational (2nd) | Gangwon | 400,000,000 | Kim Dae-sub (6) | n/a | |||
28 Sep | Gyeonggi | 600,000,000 | Andrew McKenzie (1) | n/a | ||||
5 Oct | South Chungcheong | 1,000,000,000 | Bae Sang-moon (4) | 18 | ||||
12 Oct | Gyeonggi | 700,000,000 | K. J. Choi (14) | n/a | ||||
19 Oct | Gyeonggi | 500,000,000 | Kim Hyung-tae (3) | n/a | ||||
1 Nov | South Gyeongsang | 300,000,000 | Kang Kyung-nam (6) | n/a | New tournament | |||
9 Nov | Gangwon | 300,000,000 | Choi Ho-sung (1) | n/a | ||||
16 Nov | Gyeonggi | 500,000,000 | Andrew McKenzie (2) | n/a |
The Order of Merit was titled as the Ballantine's Points and was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[3]
Position | Player | Points | |
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1 | 6,765 | ||
2 | 4,025 | ||
3 | 3,375 | ||
4 | 3,230 | ||
5 | 3,030 |
Award | Winner | ||
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