From Kim Min-sol exceeding 1.6 billion won to Park Min-ji’s 20 wins… The rich KLPGA tour

As the 2026 Korea Ladies Professional Golf (KLPGA) Tour ended with Kim Min-sol's 'triple crown', various records and rich stories poured out.

According to the KLPGA Tour on the 10th, 29 competitions were held in the 2026 season with a total prize money of 33.5 billion won, and 19 winners emerged.

Kim Min-sol won the grand prize, rookie of the year, and prize money along with 3 wins of the season.

Seo Gyo-rim, Kim Min-sol's rival in the same age group, became the multiple wins king with his first win of his career and his fourth win of the season.

Six people, including Seo Kyo-rim, Lim Jin-young, Jang Eun-su, Choi Ye-rim, Ma Seo-young, and Jjarawi Bunchan (Thailand), enjoyed the joy of winning for the first time in their lives.

In particular, Boonjjan reached the top at the 14th E1 Charity Open last May and became the first Thai national to win the KLPGA Tour.

He also set a record as the first player to win the regular tour from the KLPGA International Qualifying Tournament (IQT).

There were a total of 6 winners including Seo Gyo-rim (4 wins), Kim Min-sol, Yoo Hyeon-jo (3 wins), Kim Min-seon, Lee Ye-won, and Kim Hyo-ju (2 wins).

Sister golfers Go Ji-woo and Go Ji-won attracted attention by each winning one win this season, following last year.

New history was also written in the prize money category.

Kim Min-sol, the prize money king, earned 1,628,439,428 won in prize money this season, exceeding 1.6 billion won in prize money in a single season for the first time in tour history.

Five people, including Kim Min-sol, Seo Gyo-rim, Yoo Hyeon-jo, Lee Ye-won, and Kim Min-seon, won prize money of more than 1 billion won.

This is the first time that five players have earned more than 1 billion won in a single season. The previous record was 4 in 2024 and 2025.

Park Min-ji tied the record for the most wins (20 wins) at the Sh Suhyup Bank MBN Women's Open in May, and surpassed 7 billion won in career winnings for the first time on the tour at the Hana Financial Group Championship in September.

Kim Min-seon set a record for winning a no-bogey match along with a 'wire-to-wire victory', maintaining the lead from the first to the third round at the Nexen/Saint Nine Masters 2026 in April.

It is the third record in history to achieve both wire-to-wire and no-bogey wins, following Bae Seon-woo (E1 Charity Open) and Park Seong-hyun (Jeju Samdasoo Masters) in 2016.

Minsol Kim caught 11 eagles this season, setting a new record for the most eagles in a season.

The tour began officially counting this category in 2008, and the previous record was 9, recorded by Jang Hana in 2013.

Kim Si-hyun took first place with the most birdies (316), and Moon Jeong-min took first place with the most average birdies (3.6235 per round).

The all-time record for most birdies in a single season is Hyun-jo Yoo's 370 in 2025, and the all-time record for average birdies is 4.6700 per round by Seong-hyun Park in 2016.

In the long hit competition, Kim Na-hyun was crowned the long hit queen with an average drive distance of 261.6690 yards.

Kim Min-sol (259.5012 yards) and Moon Jeong-min (255.6283 yards) followed.

The highest average drive distance record of all time is 266.9400 yards, set by Kim Se-young in 2013.

There were a total of 20 hole-in-ones this season.

In the third round of The Sienna Open, the domestic opening match on April 4, three players, including Park Seong-hyun, Lee Ye-won, and Ko Ji-won, recorded a hole-in-one at the same time, attracting attention.