SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Ko Jin-young, former world No. 1 and currently the top-ranked South Korean, will headline her country’s contingent at the first major tournament of the 2025 LPGA Tour season in Texas this week. The Chevron Championship will open at the Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course at Carlton Woods in The [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — As Kim Hyo-joo stood on the 18th fairway in a playoff at the Ford Championship in Arizona on Sunday (local time), pursuing her first LPGA win since October 2023, a ladybug landed on her ball. Knowing it was a symbol of luck, Kim didn’t chase it away. “I was [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The International Crown, an LPGA match-play competition, will feature a new team of global stars for this year’s edition in South Korea, organizers said Thursday. Team World, to be made up of one player each from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa and Oceania, will go up against seven [...]
PARIS, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Running for a seat on an International Olympic Committee (IOC) body dedicated to representing athletes’ voices, South Korean golfer Park In-bee has arrived in Paris to launch her election campaign in earnest. The LPGA Hall of Famer landed at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport on Monday night, decked out in a [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean golf legend Pak Se-ri will team up with a global investment firm to host a newly named tournament on the LPGA Tour, officials have announced. The LPGA Tour announced Tuesday (U.S. time) that Pak and the Silicon Valley-based investment company Fir Hills will stage the Fir Hills [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — By capturing the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship in Florida on Sunday at age 34, South Korea’s Amy Yang became the oldest winner on the LPGA Tour this year — not that Yang had paid much mind to it. “I didn’t even think about it,” Yang said with a [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The LPGA has released a documentary celebrating the 25th anniversary of a groundbreaking major championship victory by South Korean legend Pak Se-ri. Titled “The Shot,” the documentary premiered on LPGA’s YouTube channel and LPGA.com at 8 p.m. Wednesday (U.S. Eastern time). It explores how Pak’s win at the 1998 [...]
WONJU, South Korea, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, will become the Official Cybersecurity Partner of the BMW Ladies Championship, taking place at the Oak Valley Country Club in the Republic of Korea. The partnership with the BMW Ladies Championship will represent Fortinet’s first sponsorship [...]
INCHEON, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – LPGA rookie sensation Park Sung-hyun got a hero’s welcome Monday as she returned home following a historic season. Park became only the second LPGA rookie ever to win the money title, the Rookie of the Year and the Player of the Year honors in one season, joining Nancy Lopez from 1978. Park clinched the points race for the top rookie award in October, with five tournaments remaining in the season, thanks [...]