SK Telecom Open

SK Telecom Open
Tournament information
Location South Korea
Established 1997
Course(s) Sky 72 Golf Club
Par 72
Tour(s) Korean Tour
OneAsia Tour (2010–2015)
Asian Tour (2001–07)
Format Stroke play
Prize fund 1,200,000,000 won
Month played May
Current champion
South Korea Kwon Sung-yeol

The SK Telecom Open is an annual professional golf tournament hosted in South Korea and sponsored by the Korean cell phone company SK Telecom. The tournament was inaugurated in June 1997 as "SK Telecom Classic", and renamed in 2001. It is part of the Korean Tour for men, and was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour from 2001 to 2007. It was co-sanctioned by the OneAsia Tour from 2010 to 2015.[1] In 2017 and 2018 it had prize money of 1,200,000,000 Won.

The tenth edition, held May 4–7, 2006, was shortened to 54 holes because of rain.[2] The tournament that year made international headlines when teenage golfer Michelle Wie made the cut, only the second female golfer to do so in a Korean men's tournament after Se Ri Pak in 2003 and the first to do it in an Asian Tour tournament.

It has been staged at five different venues since its inception it is currently played at the Sky 72 Golf Club and has previously been played at Pinx, BA Vista, IIdong Lake and the Lakeside Golf Clubs.

Winners

YearWinnerCountryVenueScoreTo parMargin
of victory		Runner(s)-up
2018Kwon Sung-yeol South KoreaSky 72275−13PlayoffSouth Korea Ryu Hyun-woo
2017Choi Jin-ho (2) South KoreaSky 72269−192 strokesSouth Korea Park Sang-hyun
2016Lee Sang-hee South KoreaSky 72278−101 strokeSouth Korea Kim Kyung-tae
2015Choi Jin-ho South KoreaSky 72278−101 strokeSouth Korea Lee Soo-min
2014Kim Seung-hyuk South KoreaSky 72277−111 strokeSouth Korea Kim Kyung-tae
South Korea Lee Tae-hee
2013Matthew Griffin AustraliaPinx203−131 strokeSouth Korea Kang Wook-soon
2012Kim Bi-o South KoreaPinx270−183 strokesSouth Korea Park Sang-hyun
2011Kurt Barnes AustraliaPinx202−141 strokeSouth Korea Kim Kyung-tae
2010Bae Sang-moon (2) South KoreaSky 72266−223 strokesSouth Korea Kim Dae-hyun
2009Park Sang-hyun South KoreaSky 72276−121 strokeSouth Korea Kim Do-hoon
2008K. J. Choi (3) South KoreaSky 72272−164 strokesSouth Korea Kang Kyung-nam
2007Bae Sang-moon South KoreaBA Vista271−176 strokesAustralia Aaron Baddeley
South Korea Kim Hyung-tae
2006Prom Meesawat ThailandSky 72201−153 strokesSouth Korea Lee Seong-ho
India Jeev Milkha Singh
2005K. J. Choi (2) South KoreaIldong Lake275−135 strokesAustralia Andrew Buckle
United States Fred Couples
2004Simon Yates ScotlandBA Vista279−91 strokeCanada Rick Gibson
South Korea Charlie Wi
2003K. J. Choi South KoreaBA Vista201−15PlayoffSouth Korea Shin Yong-jin
2002Charlie Wi (2) South KoreaLakeside272−162 strokesAustralia Kim Felton
South Korea Kevin Na
2001Charlie Wi South KoreaIldong Lake281−7PlayoffSouth Korea Kang Wook-soon
Scotland Simon Yates
2000Park Nam-sin (2) South KoreaIldong Lake275−131 strokeSouth Korea Mo Joong-kyung
1999Park Nam-sin South KoreaIldong Lake278−10PlayoffSouth Korea Kim Wan-tae
South Korea Park Boo-won
1998Choi Gwang-soo South KoreaIldong Lake269−199 strokesSouth Korea K. J. Choi
South Korea Kang Wook-soon
1997Park No-seok South KoreaIldong Lake285−32 strokesSouth Korea Choi Sang-ho

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References

  1. ↑ "Golf-OneAsia add Korea's SK Telecom Open to 2010 schedule". Yahoo! Sports. 9 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
  2. ↑ ESPN.com, 2006 SK Telecom Open Final Results
  3. ↑ http://www.sktelecomopen.com/html/open.asp?htype=winner List of winners (In Korean)
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