This file photo from Oct. 20, 2023, shows Seowon Hills at Seowon Valley Country Club in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, during the second round of the BMW Ladies Championship on the LPGA Tour. (Image courtesy of Yonhap)
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The BMW Ladies Championship, the lone LPGA Tour event in South Korea, will be played on the same course on the northwestern outskirts of Seoul for the second straight year this fall, the tournament’s organizers announced Tuesday.
BMW Korea said the 72-hole tournament will be back at Seowon Hills at Seowon Valley Country Club in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, for Oct. 17-20.
Han Sang-yun, president of BMW Korea, said the company will seek to forge strong ties with the local community and move the tournament around the country every two years, instead of annually.
In this file photo from Oct. 22, 2023, Minjee Lee of Australia is doused in champagne after winning the BMW Ladies Championship on the LPGA Tour at Seowon Hills at Seowon Valley Country Club in Paju, Gyeonggi Province. (Image courtesy of Yonhap)
This will be the fifth edition of the tournament. It was held in the southeastern metropolitan city of Busan in 2019 and in 2021, with the 2020 event wiped out due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the tournament moved to Wonju, some 85 kilometers southeast of Seoul in Gangwon Province, before coming to Paju last year.
The US$2.2 million tournament will be played over 72 holes with no cut. The field of 78 will be made up of 68 LPGA Tour players, eight players on special sponsor invitations and two amateurs selected by the Korea Golf Association, the national governing body of amateur golf.
Korean Australian golfer Minjee Lee won the 2023 tournament, beating Korean American Alison Lee in a playoff.
(Yonhap)
