2025 Korean Tour

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2025 Korean Tour season
Duration17 April 2025 (2025-04-17) – 9 November 2025 (2025-11-09)
Number of official events20
Most wins Flag of South Korea.svg Ok Tae-hoon (3)
Order of Merit Flag of South Korea.svg Ok Tae-hoon
Player of the Year Flag of South Korea.svg Ok Tae-hoon
Rookie of the Year Flag of Thailand.svg Sadom Kaewkanjana
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The 2025 Korean Tour was the 48th season on the Korean Tour, the main professional golf tour in South Korea since it was formed in 1978.

Contents

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2025 season. [1] [2]

DateTournamentLocationPurse
(₩)		Winner [a] OWGR
points		Other
tours [b] 		Notes
20 Apr DB Insurance Promy Open Gangwon1,000,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Baek-jun (1)5.68
27 Apr Woori Financial Group Championship Gyeonggi1,500,000,000 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Richard T. Lee (4)6.97
4 May GS Caltex Maekyung Open Jeju1,300,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Mun Do-yeob (4)8.75 ASA
11 May KPGA Classic North Gyeongsang700,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Bae Yong-jun (2)4.28
18 May SK Telecom Open Jeju1,300,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Eom Jae-woong (3)6.69
25 May Kolon Korea Open South Chungcheong1,400,000,000 Flag of Thailand.svg Sadom Kaewkanjana (1)8.58 ASA
8 Jun Baeksang Holdings-Asiad CC Busan Open South Gyeongsang1,000,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Hong-taek (3)5.69
15 Jun Hana Bank Invitational Gangwon1,300,000,000 Flag of South Africa.svg Shaun Norris (n/a)9.53 JPN
22 Jun KPGA Championship South Gyeongsang1,600,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Ok Tae-hoon (1)7.91
29 Jun KPGA Gunsan CC Open North Jeolla700,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Ok Tae-hoon (2)6.57
31 Aug Dong-A Membership Exchange Group Open North Jeolla700,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Park Sang-hyun (13)6.59
7 Sep KPGA Founders Cup North Gyeongsang700,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Mun Do-yeob (5)6.52
14 Sep Shinhan Donghae Open Gyeonggi1,500,000,000 Flag of Japan.svg Kazuki Higa (n/a)10.59 ASA, JPN
21 Sep Golfzon Open North Gyeongsang1,000,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Park Sung-kug (2)6.98
28 Sep Hyundai Insurance KJ Choi Invitational Gyeonggi1,250,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Jeon Ga-lam (4)6.90
4 Oct KPGA Gyeongbuk Open North Gyeongsang700,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Ok Tae-hoon (3)4.76New tournament
19 Oct The Charity Classic Gyeonggi1,000,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Choi Seung-bin (2)5.76
26 Oct Genesis Championship GyeonggiUS$4,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Jung-hwan (3)21.25 EUR
2 Nov Lexus Masters South Gyeongsang1,000,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Jae-ho (1)5.64
9 Nov KPGA Tour Championship Jeju1,100,000,000 Flag of South Korea.svg Park Sang-hyun (14)3.95

Order of Merit

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] [4] The top three players on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2026 European Tour (DP World Tour). [5] [6]

PositionPlayerPointsStatus earned
1 Flag of South Korea.svg Ok Tae-hoon 7,204Promoted to European Tour
2 Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Baek-jun 5,176
3 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Richard T. Lee 4,965
4 Flag of South Korea.svg Choi Jin-ho 4,731
5 Flag of South Korea.svg Bae Yong-jun 4,411

Awards

AwardWinnerRef.
Player of the Year (Grand Prize Award) Flag of South Korea.svg Ok Tae-hoon [4] [6]
Rookie of the Year (Myeong-chul Award) Flag of Thailand.svg Sadom Kaewkanjana [7] [8]

Notes

  1. ↑ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Korean Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Korean Tour members.
  2. ↑ ASA − Asian Tour; EUR − European Tour; JPN − Japan Golf Tour.

References

  1. ↑ "2025 Tournament schedule" (in Korean). KPGA. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  2. ↑ "[2025년 KPGA 투어 일정 발표] 20개 대회-총상금 259억 원 규모, 평균상금 역대 최고 12.9억 원… '13억 원 시대' 눈 앞" [[2025 KPGA Tour Schedule Announced] 20 tournaments with total prize money of KRW 25.9 billion, average prize money of KRW 1.29 billion, the highest ever... The '1.3 Billion Won Era' is in front of us] (in Korean). Korean Tour. 24 February 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  3. ↑ "2025 Genesis Points" (in Korean). KPGA. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  4. 1 2 "옥태훈, 대상 이어 상금왕 등 4관왕 확정..."이제 해외 진출 도전"" [Ok Tae-hoon confirmed 4 gold medals including the prize king after the grand prize...“ Now the challenge to enter overseas"]. Hankyung (in Korean). 9 November 2025. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  5. ↑ "PGA Tour Q-School 및 DPWT 특전 적용 시점 관련 안내" [Information on the time of application of PGA Tour Q-School and DPWT perks] (in Korean). KPGA. 18 June 2025. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  6. 1 2 "2025 시즌 KPGA 투어, 'KPGA 제네시스 대상 시상식'으로 피날레" [The 2025 KPGA season comes to a close with the KPGA Genesis Awards Ceremony] (in Korean). KPGA. 14 November 2025. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
  7. ↑ "2025 Rookie of the Year" (in Korean). KPGA. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  8. ↑ "[포토] 사돔 캐우칸자나, '명출상(신인상)' 수상" [Sadom Kaewkanjana wins the 'Rookie of the Year Award']. Nate (in Korean). 12 November 2025. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
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