‘King of Kings Championship Winner’ Li Shuying, I am the Strongest in the Dream Tour

Pharmaresearch Rejuran Wins Overtime Championship
Reattempts to Secure KLPGA Regular Tour Seed Next Year
Seo Gyolim Runner-up, Song Euna Advances to Division 1 as Prize Money Leader

Li Shuying (China) has emerged as the strongest player in the Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) Dream (2nd division) Tour.

Lishu Ying won the Dream Tour Championship and will join next year's regular tour as the second in the prize money rankings.
[Photo by KLPGA]

On the 30th, at the final event of this year, the Pharma Research Rejuran King of Kings Tournament (total prize money 200 million KRW) held at Phoenix Country Club in Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon Province (par 72, 6,337 yards), Li shot 3 under par in the 3rd round to tie with Seo Gyo-rim at 13 under par 203 strokes. Then, on the second hole of the sudden-death playoff resumed at the 18th hole (par 4), she made a 'winning birdie.' She received the winner's prize of 30 million KRW, jumping from 15th to 2nd place in the prize money rankings (51,236,889 KRW), securing her KLPGA Tour card for next year.

Players who rank within the top 20 in the Dream Tour prize money rankings earn the right to participate in the regular tour. Li Shuying was the first Chinese national to join the KLPGA Tour last year, but she finished 72nd in the prize money rankings and only 31st in the qualifying tournament, so this year she competed in both the KLPGA Tour and the Dream Tour. She will once again pursue the Korean Dream on the KLPGA Tour.

Seo Gyo-rim fired a 6-under-par round aiming for a comeback but had to settle for runner-up. As a national representative, Seo, who won the World Amateur Team Championship last year alongside Lee Hyo-song and Kim Min-sol, started playing on the Dream Tour only since August and was ranked 51st in the prize money rankings before this tournament. However, with this runner-up finish, she jumped to 10th place (30,675,000 KRW) in the prize money rankings and will compete on the KLPGA Tour next year.

Song Eun-ah secured two victories in the 2024 Dream Tour, becoming the prize money champion.
[Photo by KLPGA]

Song Eun-ah became the Dream Tour money leader (52,837,597 KRW). In her third year on the Dream Tour, she demonstrated outstanding performance by entering the 'top 10' ten times, including two wins, a runner-up, and a third-place finish. Kim Hyo-moon, Hwang Yeon-seo, Lee Ji-hyun3, Lee Jae-yoon, Park Ji-hye3, Kwon Seo-yeon, Jung Ju-ri, Yoon Sun-jung, Park So-hye, Kang Jeong-hyun, Yoon Hye-rim, Han Bit-na, Goo Rae-hyun, Hwang Min-jung, Ma Seo-young, Lee Ju-hyun, and Jo Ian also ranked within the top 20 in the prize money rankings.