SK Telecom Open

The SK Telecom Open is an annual professional golf tournament hosted in South Korea and sponsored by the Korean cell phone company SK Telecom. The tournament was inaugurated in June 1997 as "SK Telecom Classic", and renamed in 2001. It is part of the Korean Tour for men, and was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour from 2001 to 2007. It was co-sanctioned by the OneAsia Tour from 2010 to 2015.^[1] Since 2017 it has had prize money of ₩1,200,000,000.

SK Telecom Open

Tournament information
Location	Jeju, South Korea
Established	1997
Course(s)	Pinx Golf Club
Par	71
Length	7,326 yards (6,699 m)
Tour(s)	Asian Tour Korean Tour OneAsia Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	₩1,300,000,000
Month played	May
Tournament record score
Aggregate	265 Kim Bi-o (2022)
To par	−22 Bae Sang-moon (2010)
Current champion
K. J. Choi
Location map
Pinx GC Location in South Korea

The tenth edition, held 4–7 May 2006, was shortened to 54 holes because of rain.^[2] The tournament that year made international headlines when teenage golfer Michelle Wie made the cut, only the second female golfer to do so in a Korean men's tournament after Se Ri Pak in 2003 and the first to do it in an Asian Tour tournament.

It has been staged at five different venues since its inception: Pinx Golf Club, Sky 72 Golf Club, BA Vista, IIdong Lake and the Lakeside Golf Clubs.

Winners

Year	Tour(s)[a]	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Venue
SK Telecom Open
2024	KOR	K. J. Choi (4)	281	−3	Playoff	Park Sang-hyun	Pinx
2023	KOR	Baek Seuk-hyun	271	−13	1 stroke	Lee Tae-hoon	Pinx
2022	KOR	Kim Bi-o (2)	265	−19	7 strokes	Gang Yun-seok	Pinx
2021	KOR	Tom Kim	270	−14	3 strokes	Kim Baek-jun (a)	Pinx
2020: No tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019	KOR	Ham Jeong-woo	271	−13	2 strokes	Jung Ji-ho Lee Soo-min	Sky 72
2018	KOR	Kwon Sung-yeol	275	−13	Playoff	Ryu Hyun-woo	Sky 72
2017	KOR	Choi Jin-ho (2)	269	−19	2 strokes	Park Sang-hyun	Sky 72
2016	KOR	Lee Sang-hee	278	−10	1 stroke	Kim Kyung-tae	Sky 72
2015	KOR, ONE	Choi Jin-ho	278	−10	1 stroke	Lee Soo-min	Sky 72
2014	KOR, ONE	Kim Seung-hyuk	277	−11	1 stroke	Kim Kyung-tae Lee Tae-hee	Sky 72
2013	KOR, ONE	Matthew Griffin	203[b]	−13	1 stroke	Kang Wook-soon	Pinx
2012	KOR, ONE	Kim Bi-o	270	−18	3 strokes	Park Sang-hyun	Pinx
2011	KOR, ONE	Kurt Barnes	202[b]	−14	1 stroke	Kim Kyung-tae	Pinx
2010	KOR, ONE	Bae Sang-moon (2)	266	−22	3 strokes	Kim Dae-hyun	Sky 72
2009	KOR	Park Sang-hyun	276	−12	1 stroke	Kim Do-hoon	Sky 72
2008	KOR	K. J. Choi (3)	272	−16	4 strokes	Kang Kyung-nam	Sky 72
2007	ASA, KOR	Bae Sang-moon	271	−17	6 strokes	Aaron Baddeley Kim Hyung-tae	BA Vista
2006	ASA, KOR	Prom Meesawat	201[b]	−15	3 strokes	Lee Seong-ho Jeev Milkha Singh	Sky 72
2005	ASA, KOR	K. J. Choi (2)	275	−13	5 strokes	Andrew Buckle Fred Couples	Ildong Lake
2004	ASA, KOR	Simon Yates	279	−9	1 stroke	Rick Gibson Charlie Wi	BA Vista
2003	ASA, KOR	K. J. Choi	201[b]	−15	Playoff	Shin Yong-jin	BA Vista
2002	ASA, KOR	Charlie Wi (2)	272	−16	2 strokes	Kim Felton Kevin Na	Lakeside
2001	ASA, KOR	Charlie Wi	281	−7	Playoff	Kang Wook-soon Simon Yates	Ildong Lake
SK Telecom Classic
2000	KOR	Park Nam-sin (2)	275	−13	1 stroke	Mo Joong-kyung	Ildong Lake
1999	KOR	Park Nam-sin	278	−10	Playoff	Kim Wan-tae Park Boo-won	Ildong Lake
1998	KOR	Choi Gwang-soo	269	−19	9 strokes	K. J. Choi Kang Wook-soon	Ildong Lake
1997	KOR	Park No-seok	285	−3	2 strokes	Choi Sang-ho	Ildong Lake

Source:^[3]

Notes

1. ASA − Asian Tour; KOR − Korean Tour; ONE − OneAsia Tour.
2. Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

References

1. "Golf-OneAsia add Korea's SK Telecom Open to 2010 schedule". Yahoo! Sports. 9 April 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
2. "2006 SK Telecom Open final scores". ESPN. Associated Press. 7 May 2006.
3. "List of winners" (in Korean).

External links

• Official website (in Korean)