The KPGA Tour Challenge Tour in the 2024 season has returned to the halfway point since its 10th edition. A total of 20 KPGA Challenge Tours will take place this season.
A total of 10 winners were born in the first 10 competitions in the first half of the year. Many winners have yet to be born.
Four players made their first professional debut. Jeon Jae-han (34), Choi Seung-hyun (31), Kim Hyun-wook (20), and Kwak Min-jae (27) had their first wins at the 6th, 8th, 9th, and 10th competitions, respectively.
Kim Hyun-wook, the winner of the “9th Tournament,” won the title as an amateur at the time and made an amateur title about a year after Jang Yoo-bin (22, Shinhan Financial Group), who won the “10th Tournament” in June 2023.
Kim Baek-joon (23.team elementary school kid) and Oh Seung-taek (26. Cowell), who won the KPGA Challenge Tour, have won the title for the second consecutive year. Kim and Oh, who are currently participating in two tours, including the KPGA Tour and the KPGA Challenge Tour, are also performing well in the KPGA Tour.
Kim Baek-joon, who made his KPGA Tour debut in 2024 as the combined points finisher of the 2023 KPGA Challenge Tour, is currently ranked No. 1 in points (972.00 points). He has entered the Top 5 twice, tied for third at the SK Telecom Open and fifth at the 67th KPGA Championship with A-ONE CC.
Oh Seung-taek is ranked 58th (744.00 points) in Genesis points, consistently passing the cut in eight tournaments, including 23rd place in the “KPGA Classic.”
Choi Isaac (44. Huseem), who won the trophy in the seventh competition, had four wins in the second part of the tour alone. Choi had won the 13th Lochas Challenge Tour Championship in 2005, and the 7th and 9th Championships of the Srikson Tours, which were the second part of the tour in 2020.
Currently, Jung Sun-il (32, Canada), the winner of the one-time KPGA Challenge Tour, is ranked No. 1 in the combined points and prize money list. Jeong has participated in all 10 competitions in the first half of this year and is ranking in the top 5 four times, including one championship.
Second place is Kim Hyun-wook, third place is Choi Seung-hyun, fourth place is champion Park Hyun-seo (24), fifth place is Jeon Jae-han, sixth place is top (33), seventh place is Oh Seung-taek, eighth place is Yoo Hyun-joon (22), ninth place is Choi Isaac, and 10th place is Kwak Min-jae.
After the end of the final round of the KPGA Challenge Tour in the 2024 season, the top 10 unified points will be given the best perk of qualifying for the 2025 KPGA Tour.
In addition, the KPGA Tour seed is given to the player who wins three times in the KPGA Challenge Tour. The seed category is “the one who records three wins in the KPGA Challenge Tour.” A player who wins three times can participate in the KPGA Tour tournament or play in the KPGA Challenge Tour by applying the seed immediately after achieving three wins. They can also participate in the KPGA Challenge Tour.안전놀이터
The KPGA Challenge Tour of the 2024 season will continue its journey starting with the ’11th Competition’ to be held at Solago CC in Taean, Chungcheongnam-do from the 23rd to the 24th.
Attention is focusing on the fierce competition for the KPGA Challenge Tour’s integrated point TOP10 and whether a player with three wins on the KPGA Challenge Tour can be born.