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
The OneAsia Tour was a men's professional golf tour based in the Asia-Pacific region. The tour was founded in 2009 as a joint venture between the PGA Tour of Australasia, the China Golf Association, the Korean Golf Association and the Korean PGA. T ...
from 2010 to 2015. Since 2017 it has had prize money of ₩1,200,000,000.
The tenth edition, held 4–7 May 2006, was shortened to 54 holes because of rain.
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.
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Korean Tour events
Former Asian Tour events
Golf tournaments in South Korea
Recurring sporting events established in 1997
Spring (season) events in South Korea
1997 establishments in South Korea