The Korea Professional Golf (KPGA) Srixon Tour (part 2), which produced Kim Seong-hyeon (25), Kim Young-soo (34), Kim Min-gyu (22), and Lee Jae-kyung (24), the future of Korean men’s golf. started on the 28th.
The first KPGA Srixon Tour tournament opened on the 28th at the Sol course (par 71) at the Solago CC in Taean-gun, Chungcheongnam-do. In the first round, national amateur Jang Yu-bin swept 7 birdies without a bogey and recorded a 7 under par 64, leading alone. Jang Yu-bin is the winner of the Songam Cup Amateur Golf Championship, which is called an amateur major tournament.
The winner of the opening match will be determined through the final round 2 held on the 29th. National team member Cho Woo-young and Park Hyung-wook, who won two wins on the Srixon Tour last year and debuted on the Korean Tour (Part 1) this year, are tied for 4th place by 3 strokes.
The Srixon Tour started title sponsorship in early 2020, when Srixon supports all 20 tournaments in the second part of the tour, and has been sponsoring it for four years until this year. Srixon changed the name of the event from the Challenge Tour to the ‘Srixon Tour’ and promoted the development of the second division tour through substantial management and unconventional player sponsorship.
Srixon is carrying out more strengthened player sponsorships and services every year. Srixon announced that it plans to operate a tour van at all times this year to improve the performance of players in all competitions, starting with the first competition. Srixon said, “This season, we hired an additional ‘Srixon Tour dedicated Peter’ to analyze the players’ swing conditions and, if necessary, club fitting so that they can always show their best skills, and analyzed using Trackman and GC Quad before the tournament is in progress,” he explained.
In addition, although the Srixon Tour is a second-part tour, it is well-received for conducting matches in an environment closer to the first-part tour, the Korean Tour. Starting this season, SBS Golf will broadcast all 20 tournaments of the Srixon Tour as the broadcaster changes. Accordingly, hole boards and live scoring systems were installed on the course in all competitions.
Kim Seong-hyun, who is active on the PGA Tour this year after writing the story of winning the first qualifying round at the KPGA Championship two years ago, Kim Min-kyu, who won the Kolon Korea Open last year, and Kim Young-soo, who won the KPGA Korean Tour Genesis Grand Prize and prize money last year. All of them are players produced by Srixon Tour. 메이저놀이터
Kim Sang-hyun, who became the prize money champion on the Srixon Tour last year, added more meaning to the Srixon team. From the first year of sponsoring the Srixon Tour, Srixon signed multi-year contracts with the finalists as a responsibility of the main sponsor. Srixon, who signed 103 players during the first year of 2020, is contributing to the training of players while maintaining sponsorship contracts with a total of 392 players in 2022.
Srixon said, “We will make endless efforts and change for the development of the Srixon Tour and Korean men’s professional golf for the ‘challenge and growth’ of the players.”