Korea Championship Purse, Prize Money And Field 2023
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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.
Below is the full prize money breakdown and field for the 2023 Korea Championship Presented By Genesis.
Korea Championship Prize Money 2023
Korea Championship Field 2023
Kiradech Aphibarnrat
Marcus Armitage
John Axelsen
Sangmoon Bae
Yongjun Bae
Matthew Baldwin
Wil Besseling
Alexander Björk
Thomas Bjørn
Christoffer Bring
Daniel Brown
Jinjae Byun
Rafa Cabrera Bello
Jorge Campillo
John Catlin
Heemin Chang
Mingyu Cho
Sungmin Cho
Jinho Choi
Minchel Choi
Todd Clements
Aaron Cockerill
Nicolas Colsaerts
Jens Dantorp
Louis De Jager
Wenyi Ding
Bryce Easton
Nacho Elvira
Grant Forrest
Manu Gandas
Daniel Gavins
Deon Germishuys
Gavin Green
Julien Guerrier
Jeong Ham
Seungsu Han
Chase Hanna
Marcus Helligkilde
Angel Hidalgo
Kazuki Higa
Calum Hill
Daniel Hillier
Ryo Hisatsune
Rasmus Højgaard
David Horsey
Oliver Hundebøll
Inhoi Hur
Gary Hurley
Doyeon Hwang
Jaemin Hwang
Junggon Hwang
Scott Jamieson
Jazz Janewattananond
Galam Jeon
Seonghyeon Jeon
Matthew Jordan
Hanmil Jung
Kyungnam Kang
Yunseok Kang
Bio Kim
Bongsub Kim
Dongeun Kim
Hanbyeol Kim
Jaeho Kim
Jinsung Kim
Junsung Kim
Minjun Kim
Minkyu Kim
Taeho Kim
Taehoon Kim
Yeongsu Kim
Marcus Kinhult
Søren Kjeldsen
Alexander Knappe
Jeong Weon Ko
Guntaek Koh
Mikko Korhonen
Jacques Kruyswijk
Osang Kwon
Joakim Lagergren
Romain Langasque
Pablo Larrazábal
David Law
Dongmin Lee
Gyeongjun Lee
Hyungjoon Lee
Jaekyeong Lee
Joshua Lee
Jun Lee
Junghwan Lee
Richard T Lee
Sanghee Lee
Soomin Lee
Taehee Lee
Wonjoon Lee
Alexander Levy
Haotong Li
Mikael Lindberg
Zander Lombard
Hurly Long
Mike Lorenzo-Vera
Joost Luiten
Robert Macintyre
Dongseop Maeng
Richard Mansell
Tom Mckibbin
Adrian Meronk
David Micheluzzi
Guido Migliozzi
Kyongjun Moon
James Morrison
Doyeob Mun
Niklas Nørgaard
Shaun Norris
Taehoon Ok
Eunshin Park
Sanghyun Park
Sungkug Park
John Parry
Yannik Paul
Matthieu Pavon
Tapio Pulkkanen
Richie Ramsay
David Ravetto
Antoine Rozner
Kalle Samooja
Marcel Schneider
Freddy Schott
Robin Sciot-Siegrist
Jack Senior
Yoseop Seo
Shubhankar Sharma
Sanghun Shin
Yonggu Shin
Marcel Siem
Martin Simonsen
Jordan Smith
Sebastian Söderberg
Clément Sordet
Matthew Southgate
Andy Sullivan
Santiago Tarrio
Darius Van Driel
Johannes Veerman
Justin Walters
Jeunghun Wang
Paul Waring
Gunner Wiebe
Oliver Wilson
Ashun Wu
Jiho Yang
Sungho Yun
Fabrizio Zanotti
Who's In The Field For The Korea Championship?
Some of the players who will be confident of victory this week include Scot Robert MacIntyre, Polish star Adrian Meronk, Japanese player Kazuki Higa and Dane Rasmus Hojgaard.
What Is The Prize Money For The Korea Championship?
Players will be competing for a $2m purse, an identical sum to the prize money on offer in last week’s ISPS Handa Championship in Japan. The winner will receive $340,000 and the runner-up will take home $220,000.