Year: | 2016 |
Tour: | Korean Tour |
Regular Season: | – |
No Of Events: | 13 |
Most Wins: | Choi Jin-ho (2) Joo Heung-chol (2) |
Honor1: | Order of Merit |
Honoree1: | Choi Jin-ho |
Honor2: | Player of the Year |
Honoree2: | Choi Jin-ho |
Honor3: | Rookie of the Year |
Honoree3: | Kim Tae-woo |
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 | Choi Jin-ho (5) | 9 | ||||
8 May | Gyeonggi | 1,000,000,000 | Park Sang-hyun (5) | 11 | ||||
15 May | South Chungcheong | 300,000,000 | Mo Joong-kyung (5) | 9 | ||||
22 May | Gyeonggi | 1,000,000,000 | Lee Sang-hee (3) | 10 | ||||
29 May | Gangwon | 702,339,000 | Choi Jin-ho (6) | 9 | ||||
12 Jun | South Gyeongsang | 800,000,000 | Lee Sang-yeop (1) | 9 | ||||
28 Aug | South Gyeongsang | 1,000,000,000 | Kim Jun-sung (1) | 9 | ||||
4 Sep | North Jeolla | 500,000,000 | Joo Heung-chol (2) | 9 | ||||
11 Sep | South Chungcheong | 1,200,000,000 | Lee Kyoung-hoon (2) | 8 | ||||
2 Oct | Gyeonggi | 1,200,000,000 | Gaganjeet Bhullar (n/a) | 18 | ||||
9 Oct | South Gyeongsang | 500,000,000 | Joo Heung-chol (3) | 9 | ||||
23 Oct | North Gyeongsang | 500,000,000 | Yoon Jung-ho (1) | 9 | New tournament | |||
13 Nov | South Jeolla | 300,000,000 | Lee Hyung-joon (3) | 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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