Year: | 2017 |
Tour: | Korean Tour |
Regular Season: | – |
No Of Events: | 19 |
Most Wins: | Chang Yi-keun (2) Kim Seung-hyuk (2) |
Honor1: | Order of Merit |
Honoree1: | Choi Jin-ho |
Honor2: | Player of the Year |
Honoree2: | Choi Jin-ho |
Honor3: | Rookie of the Year |
Honoree3: | Chang Yi-keun |
Prevseason: | 2016 |
Nextseason: | 2018 |
The 2017 Korean Tour was the 40th season on the Korean Tour, the main professional golf tour in South Korea since it was formed in 1978.
In May, it was announced that the European Tour had entered into a strategic alliance with the Korean PGA. As part of the alliance, it saw the leading player (not otherwise exempt) on the Korean Tour Order of Merit gain European Tour status for the following season.[1]
The following table lists official events during the 2017 season.[2]
Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (₩) | Winner | OWGR points | Other tours | Notes | |
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23 Apr | Gyeonggi | 500,000,000 | Maeng Dong-seop (2) | 9 | ||||
30 Apr | South Jeolla | 500,000,000 | Kim Seng-yong (1) | 9 | New tournament | |||
7 May | Gyeonggi | 1,000,000,000 | Lee Sang-hee (4) | 9 | ||||
21 May | Gyeonggi | 1,200,000,000 | Choi Jin-ho (7) | 9 | ||||
28 May | North Jeolla | 300,000,000 | Kim Woo-hyun (3) | 9 | New tournament | |||
4 Jun | South Chungcheong | 1,200,000,000 | Chang Yi-keun (1) | 8 | ||||
11 Jun | South Gyeongsang | 1,000,000,000 | Kim Seung-hyuk (3) | 9 | ||||
18 Jun | South Chungcheong | 300,000,000 | Lee Jung-hwan (1) | 9 | New tournament | |||
25 Jun | South Gyeongsang | 1,000,000,000 | Hwang Jung-gon (2) | 9 | ||||
2 Jul | North Jeolla | 500,000,000 | Lee Hyung-joon (4) | 9 | ||||
16 Jul | South Gyeongsang | 300,000,000 | Kang Kyung-nam (11) | 9 | New tournament | |||
27 Aug | South Gyeongsang | 700,000,000 | Kim Hong-taek (1) | 9 | New tournament | |||
3 Sep | North Gyeongsang | 500,000,000 | Seo Hyung-seok (1) | 9 | ||||
10 Sep | Gyeonggi | 500,000,000 | Chang Yi-keun (2) | 9 | New tournament | |||
17 Sep | Gyeonggi | 1,200,000,000 | Richard T. Lee (1) | 12 | ||||
24 Sep | Gyeonggi | 1,500,000,000 | Kim Seung-hyuk (4) | 9 | New tournament | |||
1 Oct | Jeju City | 500,000,000 | Lee Ji-hoon (1) | 9 | New tournament | |||
29 Oct | South Gyeongsang | 750,000,000 | Hwang Inn-choon (5) | 9 | ||||
5 Nov | Gyeonggi | 500,000,000 | Choi Go-woong (1) | 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] The leading player on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2018 European Tour.[4]
Position | Player | Points | Status earned | |
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1 | 5,246 | Promoted to European Tour | ||
2 | 5,060 | |||
3 | 4,566 | |||
4 | 4,364 | |||
5 | 4,109 |
Award | Winner | ||
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