Three-time DP World Tour winner Wang Jeunghun and the KPGA’s 2022 Genesis Point Award winner Kim Yeongsu are returning home for the inaugural Korea Championship from April 27-30, 2023, and fans can buy tickets at a special early price through the Interpark ticketing site here.
Kim enjoyed a career-best season in 2022, winning his first two KPGA Korean Tour titles at the Genesis Championship and the season-ending LG Signature Players Championship. The Korea Championship will represent a welcome return to Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea in Incheon, where he claimed his first victory.
As part of a recently announced expansion to the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR’s relationship with the KPGA, the Genesis Point Award winner earns membership onto the DP World Tour for the following season, with Kim teeing it up in his first two events of the 2023 Race to Dubai in South Africa earlier this month.
As a result of winning the Genesis Championship in October, he will also gain entry into the Genesis Scottish Open, the Rolex Series event which is co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR.
The 33-year-old, who also topped the KPGA Challenge Tour money list in 2018, is looking forward to the first DP World Tour and KPGA co-sanctioned event.
“I am excited to play a DP World Tour event in Korea and to connecting with the Korean fans," he said. "Since the tournament will be held on the same course where I won my first championship, I will return to a place where I have great memories.
“My goal is to compete for the title and achieve an outstanding result. With many Korean players expected to participate, I am hoping that one of us will take home the Korea Championship trophy.”
For Wang, it will be his first professional event on home soil since 2020. The 27-year-old burst on to the international scene in 2016 when he won the Trophée Hassan II in Morocco and the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open titles to become the youngest player to seal back-to-back DP World Tour titles, aged just 20 years and 251 days.
He was named the 2016 Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year, and quickly followed up that success by winning the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters title to become the third youngest player to win three events after Italy’s Matteo Manassero and the great Seve Ballesteros.
Wang has been on fine form since returning to action this season following a period of military service, recording two top tens, including a tied-third place finish at the Singapore Classic in February.
The Seoul-native, who represented his country at the 2016 Olympic Games, said: “It’s exciting to have the chance to play at home alongside players from Korea and around the world, especially in my first season back on the DP World Tour.
“I’ve had a positive start to the season and I’m enjoying my golf. I feel like I’m playing well and I can’t wait to tee it up at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club in April.”
General admission tickets and ticket packages for the Korea Championship are on sale now on the Interpark ticketing page here.
The Korea Championship marks the DP World Tour’s return to the country for the first time in 10 years. The field for the new event will feature some of the brightest young DP World Tour and Korean Tour stars, including Danish twins Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard, Scotland’s number one Robert MacIntyre and recent Korean Tour winner Kim Min-kyu.
