The Korea Championship marks the first DP World Tour event in the country for a decade, with the action taking place at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club in Incheon.
Earlier in the month, it was revealed that luxury automotive brand Genesis would sponsor the tournament, and there are some well-known players in attendance.
One of those is Scot Robert MacIntyre. The World No.90’s most recent victory on the DP World Tour came in September’s Italian Open at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, and he has shown more encouraging form of late, including a tie for seventh in the Magical Kenya Open in March and a tie for sixth in last week’s ISPS Handa Championship in Japan. With the benefit of that recent momentum, he will be targeting another strong finish this week.
If MacIntyre is to win the tournament, he could well need to overcome the challenge of the highest ranked player in this week’s field, World No.63 Adrian Meronk. The Pole missed the cut in his last tournament, The Masters at Augusta National, and he will be hoping to bounce back this week as he looks to recover the form that saw him win twice on the DP World Tour in 2022.
A player who suffered the same fate during the Masters was Japanese star Kazuki Higa, which was his second missed cut in a row. His fortunes didn’t improve last week, either, where he again failed to make the weekend’s action. The World No.87 will be eager to arrest that slide this week with his first win on the Tour.
Others who will be confident of a good week include Jordan Smith, whose most recent victory came in October’s Portugal Masters and who impressed last week too, with a tie for sixth along with MacIntyre. Meanwhile, Dane Rasmus Hojgaard goes in search of his fourth DP World Tour victory while his twin brother Nicolai plays on the PGA Tour’s Mexico Open.
Elsewhere, another relatively recent victor on the Tour is Antoine Rozner. He won December’s AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open and performed well in last month’s SDC Championship in South Africa, too, where he finished tied for third.
Local attention will turn to Kim Yeongsu, who earned his membership into the DP World Tour for the 2023 season after claiming the KPGA Tour’s 2022 Genesis Point Award. Three-time DP World Tour winner Wang Jeunghun and 22-year-old Kim Min-kyu, who won the Kolon Korea Open on the KPGA Tour last year, also play.
Participants are competing for a purse of $2m. The winner will receive $340,000 and the runner-up will earn $220,000.
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