The 2023 Korea Women’s Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) regular tour (first division) domestic opening game ‘Lotte Rent-a-Car Women’s Open’ will be held at the Lotte Skyhill Jeju Country Club (par 72) for four days from the 6th to the 9th.
The ‘Lotte Rent-A-Car Women’s Open’ has a total prize money of 800 million won (144 million won in prize money). The length of the competition course is 6395 yards (approximately 5848 m) for the preliminary round and 6370 yards (5825 m) for the final round. 메이저놀이터
The KLPGA Tour has been upgraded from 30 tournaments and 28.3 billion won in the 2022 season to 32 tournaments and 31.4 billion won. It is the first time in the history of Korean women’s professional golf that the annual total prize money exceeds 30 billion won.
Competition sponsors played a big role. The total prize money of the ‘Cris F&C 45th KLPGA Championship’ increased from 1.2 billion won to 1.3 billion won. The ‘2023 Doosan Match Play Championship’ raised the total prize money from 800 million won to 900 million won, and the ‘Celltrion Queen’s Masters’ from 1 billion won to 1.2 billion won.
The highest single tournament in the 2023 KLPGA Tour prize money is the’Hanwha Classic 2023’, which has been expanded from 1.4 billion won to 1.667 billion won. ‘Lotte Rent-A-Car Women’s Open’, ’11th E1 Charity Open’ and ‘S-OIL Championship 2023’ also decided to increase by 100 million won.
The Chris F&C 45th KLPGA Championship, held as the first major tournament in Korean women’s professional golf this season, was held at Lakewood Country Club (formerly Royal Country Club) in Yangju, Gyeonggi-do, where Korea’s first female professional golfers (Chun-Ja Kang, Myeong-Hyun Han, Ok-Hee Ahn, Jong-Hyun Ahn) were born. adds meaning.
The ’11th E1 Charity Open’ has confirmed the venue at Seongmunan Country Club in Wonju-si, Gangwon-do, newly opened in 2022, and is expected by golf fans as well as players.