Year: | 2018 |
Tour: | Korean Tour |
Regular Season: | – |
No Of Events: | 17 |
Most Wins: | ![]() |
Honor1: | Order of Merit |
Honoree1: | ![]() |
Honor2: | Player of the Year |
Honoree2: | ![]() |
Honor3: | Rookie of the Year |
Honoree3: | ![]() |
Prevseason: | 2017 |
Nextseason: | 2019 |
The 2018 Korean Tour was the 41st season on the Korean Tour, the main professional golf tour in South Korea since it was formed in 1978.
The following table lists official events during the 2018 season.[1]
Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (₩) | Winner | OWGR points | Other tours | Notes | |
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22 Apr | Gyeonggi | 500,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
6 May | Gyeonggi | 1,000,000,000 | ![]() | 12 | ||||
20 May | Gyeonggi | 1,200,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
27 May | Gyeonggi | 1,500,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
3 Jun | Gyeonggi | 700,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | New tournament | |||
10 Jun | South Gyeongsang | 1,000,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
17 Jun | Gyeonggi | 1,000,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | New tournament | |||
24 Jun | South Chungcheong | 1,200,000,000 | ![]() | 12 | ||||
1 Jul | South Gyeongsang | 1,000,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
8 Jul | North Jeolla | 500,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
19 Aug | South Gyeongsang | 500,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
2 Sep | North Gyeongsang | 500,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
16 Sep | Gyeonggi | 1,200,000,000 | ![]() | 12 | ||||
23 Sep | South Chungcheong | 500,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | New Pro-Am tournament | |||
28 Oct | South Gyeongsang | 1,000,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
4 Nov | Jeju | 500,000,000 | ![]() | 9 | ||||
11 Nov | Gyeonggi | 500,000,000 | ![]() | 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.[2] The leading player on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2019 European Tour.[3] [4]
Position | Player | Points | Status earned | |
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1 | 4,662 | Forfeited exemption | ||
2 | 4,524 | Promoted to European Tour | ||
3 | 4,412 | Promoted to European Tour | ||
4 | 3,893 | |||
5 | 3,742 |
Award | Winner | ||
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