The 2024 season of the Korean Men’s Professional Golf (KPGA) Tour has returned.

The 19th DB Insurance Promy Open (total prize money: KRW 700 million), which will be held as the 10th opening match this year, will be held for four days starting on the 11th at the Raviebel CC Old Course (71, 7,271 yards) located in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do. .

‘Defending champion’ Go Gun-taek (25, Daebo Engineering & Construction) is attempting to win the competition twice and for the second time in a row for the first time in history. There is no player yet who has won the tournament twice in a row or twice. If Go Gun-taek wins this competition, he will become the first player to be named.

Go Gun-taek went into the final round last year in second place, one stroke behind Seo Yo-seop (28, DB Insurance), and won his first championship by beating Park Sang-hyun (40, Dong-A Pharmaceutical), the winner of the 2022 tournament, by reducing a whopping 7 strokes.

Ahead of the opening game, Go Gun-taek said, “It is a tournament that I achieved my first win in my life, and it is a meaningful tournament for me personally because I gained a lot of confidence through winning the opening game.” He added, “I have already improved both my game sense and physical strength through the Asian Tour in the off-season. He said,

“I will do my best as it is my first title defense.”

Go Gun-taek said, “Thanks to his first win in the opening match last year, he won the ‘Honors K·Solarago CC Han Jang Sang Invitational’ and the ’39th Shinhan Received 3 wins until the ‘Donghae Open’.

In addition to Go Gun-taek, Park Sang-hyun, Moon Do-yeop (28, DB Insurance), Lee Tae-hoon (34, Canada), Jeon Ga-ram (28), Choi Jin-ho (40, Cowell), Heo In-hoe (37, Geumgang) House), Lee Dong-min (39, Daesun Casting), Lee Chang-woo (31, Danu), and Kang Gyeong-nam (41, Daesun Casting) are also planning to challenge for the second win of the ‘DB Insurance Promy Open’.

There are also some familiar faces before the opening . Returning. Led by Lee Chang-woo (31), who won the tournament as an amateur in 2013 after returning to the tour after completing his military service, with a total of two wins, Seo Hyeong-seok (27, Shinhan Financial Group), Park Jeong-hwan (31, Cucon), and Cha Yul-gyeom. A total of four players will be making their comeback until (30):

Jazz Jane Wattanannand (29, Thailand), who won the ‘Kolon 62nd Korea Open’ in 2019 and has a total of 7 wins, will participate in the ’19th DB Insurance Promy Open’ ‘, and will be active on the KPGA Tour in 2024.

Jazz Jane Wattanand said, “I am well aware that the competitiveness of the KPGA Tour is high. “I am also trying to improve my skills,” she said. “My goal this year is to win one game on the KPGA Tour. Also, I want to get closer and become friends with players who are active on the KPGA tour. “We all have a love for golf, and making friends through golf is a very good thing,” he said.

Meanwhile, the 2024 season KPGA Tour will be held in 22 tournaments with a total prize money of more than 25.85 billion won. It is the largest season, tying the record for the largest number of competitions and breaking the record for the highest total prize money. The previous record for the most competitions was 22 competitions and total prize money of 23.7 billion won in 2023. ‘Kolon 66th Korea Open’, which is currently discussing the size of the total prize money. Depending on the size of the prize money, the total prize money is likely to exceed 26 billion won for the first time in tour history.

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