There are so many variables that it is not easy to predict who will win.메이저놀이터 Above all, this year’s Korea Professional Golf (KPGA) Korean Tour is even more so. Since the tournament is held in an unfamiliar foreign country, there is not much information about it. New players appear rather than traditional strong players. Baek Seok-hyun and Choi Seung-bin are typical examples.
The KPGA Korean Tour Hana Bank Invitational (total prize money of 1 billion won) will be held at Isumi Golf Club (par 73, 7,625 yards) in Chiba Prefecture, Japan for four days from the 15th.
It is the longest course in the KPGA this season and has the second longest battlefield in history. The longest record is 7630 yards at the Ananti NH Nonghyup Open in Mt. Geumgang in 2007. This is the first time that the Korean Tour has been held with a par 73.
Several players are on the verge of winning. First of all, Lee Jae-kyung is determined to keep the No. 1 spot in the Genesis Grand Prize, which he won by winning Descente Korea Match Play. Choi Seung-bin, a second-year tour player who won a surprise victory at the KPGA Championship on the 11th, is aiming for two consecutive championships.
Australian compatriot Lee Jun-seok, winner of last year’s tournament, will go on to win his second consecutive tournament and third win in his tour career. Park Sang-hyun and Seo Yo-seop will challenge for the second championship after 2018 and 2019, respectively. Lee Sang-hee, Ryu Hyun-woo, Song Young-han, and Jang Dong-gyu were listed as part of the Japanese tour. Ryu Hyun-woo won two wins each on the Korean and Japanese tours, and Song Young-han won the rookie award on both tours, and in 2016, he reached the top at the SMBC Singapore Open co-hosted by the Japanese and Asian tours.
This year’s tournament, co-hosted by the KPGA and the Japan Professional Golf Tour (JGTO), will be held in Japan for the first time since its establishment in 2018. As a result, 76 of the participating players were of Korean nationality, a little more than half of the total (144), and players from countries such as Japan, China, and the Philippines took up the challenge.
Among the Japanese players, Mikumu Horikawa, who has won 4 times in the JGTO, Daiga Semikawa, who is ranked 1st in the JGTO Mercedes-Benz points ranking this season, and Riki Kawamoto, who has won many wins at the JGTO, stand out. In this event, which is in its 5th year this year, no player has yet won the championship twice.