The Ladies Asian Tour Series now inclues the Korea Women's Open.  07:18, 20/06/2021

The tournament was officially announced at Lotte Hotel, Seoul and will be staged at the Rainbows Country Club from June 17-20, 2021. As Korea’s national title tournament, DB Group Korea Women’s Open marks the start of an exciting journey for the region’s best women golfers as they embark on their journey to be crowned the AGLF (Asia Golf Leaders Forum) Asian Player of the Year at the end of the season. 

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, only a small group of key personnel were present at the signing ceremony between the AGLF and the Korea Golf Association (KGA). They consist of Mr. Jung-tai Kim, chairman of the AGLF & KLPGA, Mr. Jong-myung Lee, chairman of the Korea Golf Association, Mr. Hyung-mo Kang, vice chairman of the Korea Golf Association and Mr. Paul Park, secretary-general of the AGLF. 

“The DB Group Korea Women’s Open is the first tournament of the LAT series and is indeed a significant milestone for Asian Women’s golf. These tournaments will give us the opportunity to enhance international sporting relations and promote friendship between  Asian countries through golf,” said Kim.  

Backed by the R&A, the LAT Series aims to boost Asian women’s golf starting with the DB  Group Korea Women’s Open followed by the Hana Financial Group Championship in late September and the Hana Financial Group Singapore Women’s Open in early December.  In addition to the existing KLPGA tournaments, other tournaments across the Asia region such as the Taiwan Women’s Open with SBS in November and the Hyosung Championship with SBS  in Vietnam during the first week of December will also form part of the series in 2021. 

The LAT Series committee is already in discussion with several key stakeholders including the Indonesia Golf Association and Thailand Golf Association on the hosting of their national women’s open in their respective countries. There are at least six tournaments planned for  2021, expanding to 10 by 2023. Plans are also in the works for LAT Series’ own ranking system and establishing the AGLF Asian  Player of the Year Award. The AGLF Asian Player of the Year will be awarded to the player who earns the most points from each LAT Series tournament played this year.  

About Asia Golf Leaders Forum 

Asia Golf Leaders Forum (AGLF) is a non-profit corporation, led by four founders Mr. Jung-Tai  Kim of Hana Financial Group, Mr. Gwang-Soo Hur of Korea Golf Association (KGA), Mr. Sang Yeol Kim of Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA), and Mr. Kenny Park of Simone.  With a mutual understanding with the R&A and golf associations in Asia such as Taiwan,  Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, AGLF's mission is to unite all the Asian golf associations and create synergies to boost Asian golf to a global arena. Together with corporate partners, the AGLF is working to establish and grow Asia's own series of women’s golf by co-developing with existing tournaments or establish new tournaments in countries across Asia. R&A has put its support behind AGLF and LAT for this new milestone in  Asian Golf.  

About Korea Golf Association 

Korea Golf Association (KGA) is a governing body of golf in Korea to organize three (3) national open championships such as the Korea Open, the Korea Women's Open and the Korea Senior  Open as well as approximately 20 amateur events annually. The KGA was established in 1965,  supported by a few golf clubs here in Korea. The KGA was an affiliate with a member of the Asia  Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC) in 1965 and the International Golf Federation (IGF) in 1968. The  KGA is consists of seventeen (17) regional golf associations, four (4) affiliated golf associations and ninety-three (93) member golf clubs. The KGA has achieved proud results by winning the  2016 Rio Olympic Women's individual, World Amateur Team Championships and other international events and also produced proud players such as K.J Choi, Seri Pak, Inbee Park and Sungjae Im who was the Rookie of the year for the 2018-19 PGA tour.