Year: | 2016 |
Tour: | Korean Tour |
Regular Season: | – |
No Of Events: | 13 |
Most Wins: | ![]() ![]() |
Honor1: | Order of Merit |
Honoree1: | ![]() |
Honor2: | Player of the Year |
Honoree2: | ![]() |
Honor3: | Rookie of the Year |
Honoree3: | ![]() |
Prevseason: | 2015 |
Nextseason: | 2017 |
The 2016 Korean Tour was the 39th season on the Korean Tour, the main professional golf tour in South Korea since it was formed in 1978.
In April, the Official World Golf Ranking announced that the minimum points awarded to Korean Tour events would be increased from 6 points to 9.[1]
The following table lists official events during the 2016 season.[2]
Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (₩) | Winner | OWGR points | Other tours | Notes | |
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24 Apr | Gyeonggi | 500,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
8 May | Gyeonggi | 1,000,000,000 | ![]() | 11 | ||||
15 May | South Chungcheong | 300,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
22 May | Gyeonggi | 1,000,000,000 | ![]() | 10 | ||||
29 May | Gangwon | 702,339,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
12 Jun | South Gyeongsang | 800,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
28 Aug | South Gyeongsang | 1,000,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
4 Sep | North Jeolla | 500,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
11 Sep | South Chungcheong | 1,200,000,000 | ![]() | 8 | ||||
2 Oct | Gyeonggi | 1,200,000,000 | ![]() | 18 | ||||
9 Oct | South Gyeongsang | 500,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
23 Oct | North Gyeongsang | 500,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | New tournament | |||
13 Nov | South Jeolla | 300,000,000 | ![]() | 9 |
The Order of Merit was titled as the Genesis 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 | 4,009 | ||
2 | 3,762 | ||
3 | 3,215 | ||
4 | 3,179 | ||
5 | 2,897 |
Award | Winner | ||
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