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2022 International Series Korea final results: Prize money payout, leaderboard and how much each golfer won

The 2022 International Series Korea final leaderboard is headed by winner Taehoon Ok, who earned the Asian Tour win at Lotte Skyhill Country Club Jeju in Korea.

In the final round, Ok shot his second 68 of the week, bookending the tournament that also saw him jump into contention with a second-round 64. Ok's 15-under 269 total was good enough for a one-shot win over Bio Kim.

Trevor Simsby finished alone in third on 13-under total, with Yunseok Gang alone in fourth place.

Ok won the $270,000 winner's share of the $1,500,000 purse.

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Ok earned approximately 7.4 Official World Golf Ranking points with the win. The field for the tournament was weak, but the OWGR points do help.

There was a cut this week, with 74 players finishing the event in the latest event of the season.

The 2022 Asian Tour schedule continues in three weeks with the Donghae Open.

2022 International Series Korea final leaderboard, results and prize money payouts

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Korean events confirmed on Asian Tour schedule

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The GS Caltex Maekyung Open Golf Championship & Kolon Korea Open returning to Asian Tour

Two of Asia’s longest-running and most popular championships will return to the Asian Tour schedule in 2023.

The 42nd edition of the GS Caltex Maekyung Open Golf Championship will be staged at Namseoul Country Club from May 4-7.

The Asian Tour’s finest players will then return to Korea from June 22-25 for the Kolon The 65th Korea Open Golf Championship at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club.

Cho Minn Thant, Commissioner & Chief Executive Officer at the Asian Tour, said: “We’re delighted to be able to confirm that these two fabulous championships will form part of what’s shaping up to be a record-breaking season for the Asian Tour.

“Our thanks go to the sponsors, the Korea Golf Association for their continued support, and Namseoul and Woo Jeong Hills, which are familiar venues to top-level tournament golf.”

In particular, Bio Kim and Minkyu Kim will be looking forward to returning to the scenes of memorable triumphs in 2022.

Roared on by a large final-day gallery, Bio Kim carded a closing one-over-par 72 to claim his overdue maiden Asian Tour title with a nine-under total. He had also won the Maekyung Open at Namseoul in 2012, although it was not then part of the Asian Tour.

Of the Namseoul venue, Kim said: “It’s a place where I grew up and where I practice a lot. That’s a reason why I’ve had success here. I like the golf course … and my house is about 20 minutes away. That helps!”

Minkyu Kim, meanwhile, secured his first Asian Tour title and first victory as a professional on Korean soil at his country’s national Open at Woo Jeong Hills in 2022 following a tense three-hole play-off with compatriot Mingyu Cho.

In so doing he added his name to the illustrious list of Korea Open winners, which includes Major champions Y.E. Yang, Vijay Singh, Sergio Garcia and John Daly.

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Is the South Korean golf boom over on the LPGA Tour?

Inbee Park (right) and Seri Pak are the two most successful pro golfers from South Korea.

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — In South Korea, the generation has been called “Seri Pak’s Kids,” because it’s a group of young women who became inspired by the golf star’s ascendance with her watershed 1998 U.S. Women’s Open victory. In the decade that followed, huge amounts of girls took up the game, and the repercussions would be felt when the nation’s flag became a dominant power on LPGA Tour leaderboards.

Over the last 26 years, the country has produced two LPGA Hall of Famers in Pak and Inbee Park. It has had five Rolex Women's World Rankings No. 1s—Park, Jiyai Shin, So Yeon Ryu, Sung Hyun Park, and Jin Young Ko—the most of any country since the inception of the rankings in 2006. And South Korea has had 18 players combine to win 32 majors, with Inbee Park holding a remarkable seven—putting the 35-year-old at seventh all-time on the LPGA.

But South Korea’s preeminence has faded noticeably over the last two seasons. The 2022 and 2023 campaigns were the first in more than 20 years that South Koreans won fewer than 20 percent of the LPGA’s events, and the trend has continued this season, with no champions from the country in the eight events played.

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Heading into this week’s Chevron Championship, the first LPGA major of the year, the falloff is even more stark at the tour’s biggest events. Since 1998, South Koreans have won 28 percent of the majors, but in the last three years, only In Gee Chun has captured one—the 2022 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.

What happened to make such a golf-loving country take such a dive? The theories are both quantifiable and speculative. Pak herself asserts that it’s simply a predictable cycle. Others point to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing many Asian players to stay home, and they got comfortable there. Further, the various Asian tours offer good prize money and more television exposure, which can translate into better player endorsement deals. Also, golfers from other Asian countries have provided more competition on the LPGA.

Even looking at the field for this year’s Chevron, which begins on Thursday, there are fewer South Korean players. Ten years ago, at the then-Kraft Nabisco Championship (now Chevron), 26 South Koreans were among the 114 competitors. And more of them (21) made the cut than there are South Koreans—20—in the field this week among 132 players.

“So, less player, then maybe less chance, but still we are strong,” two-time LPGA winner Mi Hyang Lee said.

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That is becoming debatable, at least when it comes to the pipeline from South Korea to the LPGA. Of the last 33 first-time winners on tour, dating back to 2020, Hae Ran Ryu's 2023 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship victory is the country’s lone triumph.

In Gee Chun is the last South Korean to have won a major, at the 2022 KPMG Women's PGA Championship.

Meantime, South Korea is at risk of doing something it hasn’t in the Olympics—not sending four players. Countries can have up to four golfers in the field if they're all in the top 15 in the World Rankings, and in the last two Olympics, the country maxed out. All of its players were ranked in the top 10 in the world at the time, and in 2016 Inbee Park won her country a gold medal.

But going into this summer ahead of the Paris Olympics, with the cutoff for making it looming on June 24, South Korea has only three players eligible—Jin Young Ko (sixth), Hyo Joo Kim (ninth), and Amy Yang (15th).

Pak, who coached her country’s Olympic women’s golf team the last two times, acknowledges that it might be South Korea’s time to fall off. “It's natural, actually,” she said. “Some ups and downs anyway. It has [been] a lot of pressure for a long time.”

The drop-off starts with the winding down of the generation of golfers, now in their 30s, who adored Pak. Inbee Park was elected by her country to the IOC’s Athlete’s Commission, had her first child last year, and hasn’t competed on tour since the middle of 2002. Ryu, 33, a two-time major champion, has announced she is retiring after this week. Shin, 35, who won the 2008 and 2012 Women’s British Open, now primarily competes on the Japanese LPGA after she resigned her LPGA membership in 2014.

The next wave of players who did not witness Pak's U.S. Women's Open victory has won majors at a lesser rate and is beginning to cut back on U.S. appearances. Chun, 29, leads with three major titles (the last being the 2022 Women's PGA), while Ko and Sung Hyun Park have two. Park, 30, has yet to make any appearances on the LPGA in 2024 despite having status from her Women’s PGA title. Ko, 28, will make her first domestic start at the Chevron this week.

South Korea’s decrease in wins converges with other nations having their equivalent Seri Pak generations starting to enter the LPGA. Japanese journalist Reiko Takewara, who has covered the LPGA for 25 years, explained that Japan is going through its Ai Miyazato generation.

Miyazato became the first player from Japan to become the No. 1 player in the World Rankings in 2010 and retired from playing on the LPGA in 2017. Since then, Japan has had its first two major champions in Hinako Shibuno (2019 Women’s British) and Yuka Saso (2021 U.S. Women's Open). Japan has a record nine members in the LPGA this season, including six-time winner Nasa Hataoka and 2020 Olympic silver medalist Mone Inami.

It's not just Japan on the rise.

“I don't see that Korea is going down, but other countries, especially from Asia, are getting better now,” Takekawa said.

China and Thailand, in particular, have emerged. Shanshan Feng became the first-ever LPGA major champion from China in 2012 and World No. 1 in 2017. Ruoning Yin was the second Chinese major winner and the country’s second World No. 1 last year. Xiyu Lin is a top-10 player in the world.

Ariya Jutanugarn became the first Thai to win a major at the 2016 Women's British and the first from her country to be No. 1 in 2017. Patty Tavatanakit became the second Thai major champion at the 2021 ANA Inspiration (now Chevron). Atthaya Thitikul became the second-ever No. 1 from Thailand in 2022.

A further incentive for South Korean players to stay home is the rise of the Korean LPGA. Since 2009, the tour has grown from 18 tournaments to 30, with the average purse increasing 270 percent from around $337,000 to $779,000 converted from won to U.S. dollars. That's a higher rate than the LPGA's 208-percent growth over the same span, though the American-based tour still boasts a robust $3.5 million average prize money at its events.

The smaller KLPGA purse sizes are supplemented by South Koreans' additional potential sponsorship opportunities on their home tour. According to Lee, South Korean companies prefer to sponsor players from their home country who stay in their homeland for TV exposure reasons. If players head over to the U.S., with a 13-hour time difference between Seoul and the U.S. East Coast, the LPGA's broadcast hours on Joongang Tongyang Broadcasting Company (JTBC) are often during inconvenient viewing hours. Chevron's final round will air live from 7 to 10 on Monday morning.

The KLPGA is broadcast on Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) Golf, with additional exposure during reasonable TV windows. This week's KLPGA Nexen Saint Nine Masters final round will start at 10 a.m. on Sunday.

South Korean Jin Young Ko has amassesd 15 wins on the LPGA Tour.

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JTBC doesn't send out its camera and production crew to LPGA tournaments; instead, it utilizes the Golf Channel's feed and provides Korean commentary. With the telecast's focus on a U.S. audience, South Korean players may not get as featured as they would if JTBC were directing the show.

“There's not many Korean players on TV as well,” Lee said. “So, hopefully Golf Channel can help the Korean player.”

Additionally, travel across the world is a challenge. Trips to play in U.S. LPGA events are a long haul, while competing on JLPGA is highly convenient, with Tokyo and Seoul in the same time zone. The JLPGA’s average purse over its 37 events, converted from yen to U.S. dollars, is approximately $750,000, offering a comparable amount of money to the KLPGA.

Chun pointed out the impact COVID-19 had on players staying home, but she hopes the next generation will be more ambitious. “I'm on tour here [on the LPGA], but I wish we all play well,” she said. “And then, give the juniors good [inspiration] as well.”

Jiyai Shin is trying to get more South Koreans to play on the LPGA, even though she left more than a decade ago. When talking with younger players on the Japan tour, the former No. 1 explains that they may not grow as players as much if they remain close to home. “If you stay in Korea, our thinking, our seeing, still keep narrow,” she explained.

Shin competed in her first non-major U.S. event since 2013 at the Fir Hills Seri Pak Invitational in March, in part to potentially gain World Ranking points (she's 19th at the moment) for a bid at the Olympics. A victory on the LPGA, she contends, could be a chance to provide inspiration for more South Korean golfers.

“That's why I say this is my turn to influencing to the other young golfers,” Shin said. “Because, look at me, I'm still challenging [myself], I keep make the noise to come over, come over. It should maybe touch their heart."

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What is the International Series on the Asian Tour? Is it linked to LIV Golf?

The International Series marks a ground-breaking and unprecedented investment into the Asian Tour by LIV Golf Investments.

The International Series was unveiled by the Asian Tour and LIV Golf back in February, marking a huge investment and development for the circuit.

The International Series is integrated into the Asian Tour schedule and it began with its Thailand event at Black Mountain Golf Club in March.

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LIV Golf, commissioned by Greg Norman, increased their investment of $200 million to $300 million into the Asian Tour, supposedly showing LIV's commitment to improving golf on a global scale.

10 events are set to be played on the International Series each season for the next 10 years. Some of the key aims of the series include driving fan engagement, attracting commercial interest and stabilising professional golf.

The series will visit countries such as England, Korea, Vietnam, China, Singapore and Hong Kong while prize purses will range from $1.5 million to $2 million.

The first event of The International Series in Thailand was won by Sihwan Kim. Scott Vincent won the second event at Slaley Hall Hotel, Spa and Golf Resort at the start of June.

There are two more events on the series scheduled for 2022. International Series Singapore is taking place this week at Tanah Merah Country Club where Patrick Reed will be teeing it up having most recently played in the Bedminster Invitational on the LIV Golf Tour .

"I have heard a lot of amazing things about the area and the golf course. To be able to come and experience it myself is amazing and watching the (National Day) fireworks last night was great," Reed said.

"There is a lot of things that go into it, and when the people treat you like family as they have here, it makes the experience that much better."

International Series South Korea is up next from August 18 to 21 at Lotte Skyhill Jeju Country Club. This will be the fourth event of the series to be held in 2022.

Currently, Vincent leads the International Series Order of Merit from Kim in second place. Travis Smyth, Phachara Khongwatmai and Sadom Kaewkanjana make up the top five and all of these players have competed on the LIV Golf Tour this year.

The Asian Tour kicked off its season with the Saudi International in February which was sponsored by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia . The PIF is the majority shareholder of LIV Golf Investments. 

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