The SK Telecom Open is an annual professional

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tournament hosted in

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and sponsored by the Korean cell phone company

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. The tournament was inaugurated in June 1997 as "SK Telecom Classic", and renamed in 2001. It is part of the

Korean Tour The Korean Tour is a men's professional golf tour run by the Korea Professional Golfers' Association (KPGA) of South Korea. In 2011, it had total prize money of about United States dollar, US$14 million. Professional golf in Korea dates back to ...

for men, and was co-sanctioned by the

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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 P ...

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

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made the cut, only the second female golfer to do so in a Korean men's tournament after

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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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