KLPGA: 2020 The 42nd KLPGA Championship

"The 42nd KLPGA Championship will be held at Lakewood Country Club in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province for four days from the 14th. This tournament is a major tournament held with the largest prize ever of 2.3 billion won (winning prize of 160 million won), attracting great attention."

제42회 KLPGA 챔피언십

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It's great that they extended the first and second round.
1R 09:00~18:00
2R 09:00~18:00
3R  11:00~17:00
4R  10:00~16:00

C'mon, Grant Boone, we know you lurk on here. You need to bring this to the higher-ups at GC. Tell them they can take credit for the idea. You can do the play-by-play from your bedroom, like the ESPN KBO guys. We know you'll do your homework.

If they still balk, tell them they can get Wiesy to do the color commentary...hey, at least she should pronounce the names right.

S. Korean women's golf major to offer more money, bigger field


SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean women's golf tour has increased the purse and expanded the field for the first major of its season scheduled for next week.

The Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) said Thursday that the KLPGA Championship, set for May 14-17, will offer a total purse of 3 billion won (US$2.4 million), with 220 million won awarded to the champion.

Previously, the purse was set at 2.3 billion won, with 160 million won set for the winner.

Also, the field will now feature 150 players, six more than the initial field to compete at Lakewood Country Club in Yangju, just north of Seoul in Gyeonggi Province.

It will be the first KLPGA tournament to take place on South Korean soil this season. The 2020 season began with the Hyosung Championship in Vietnam last December. It was to be followed by a tournament in Taiwan in March, with the first tournaments on South Korean soil set for April.

But with the coronavirus wreaking havoc worldwide, the KLPGA Tour had long canceled all tournaments for April and most events for May.

The KLPGA Championship was originally slated for April 30-May 3 in Yangju, just north of Seoul in Gyeonggi Province. The tour announced the event's cancellation on April 3 but then said 13 days later that it would be played in mid-May.

The star-studded field will include three of the world's top-10 players: Park Sung-hyun (No. 3), Kim Sei-young (No. 6) and Lee Jeong-eun (No. 10). All three were KLPGA stars before they took their talents to America for the LPGA Tour, whose season has been on hold since February due to the pandemic. Park has yet to play a competitive tournament this year.

KLPGA stars include the past two champions -- Choi Hye-jin and Jang Ha-na.

The tournament will be played without fans. Lakewood has 36 holes, 18 each for the Wood Course, the tournament venue, and for the Lake Course, which is open for members.

Those members will continue to use the main clubhouse, and competing players and their caddies will use a separate facility as a temporary clubhouse during the tournament.
The tournament holes will be roped off so that the playing public will not have access.

All participating players will have their temperature checked before entering the course. They will be asked to maintain a safe distance from their playing partners and to sanitize their clubs during their round.



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This is a big opportunity for KLPGA, especially if both LPGA and JLPGA cancel 2020 seasons and all Korean stars play KLPGA for the entire season.

KLPGA realizes the occasion; they raised the purse from 2.3 billion won to 3.0 billion won and increased the field from 144 to 150.  By the way, previous biggest KLPGA purse was 1.5 billion won.