By Sky Sports Golf
Last updated: 12/05/20 14:18 pm
Sei Young Kim leads the KLPGA Championship
Professional golf will be back on Thursday, with three of the top 10 players in the world at the KPLGA Championship in South Korea.
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This week's event at Lakewood Country Club in Yangju, just north of Seoul, is the first professional golf to be played in the world since March 15 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) is the third professional sports organization to start or resume its sports season behind closed doors, after the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) and the Korean Professional Soccer League (K League).
Banners representing spectators have been used in the stands of other sports.
The temperature of the players will be taken before entering the course and they will be asked to complete questionnaires to find out if they have experienced symptoms of coronavirus before the competition, the tournament without spectators.
The tournament is also the first to be played at KLPGA since the Hyosung Championship which opened the season in Vietnam last December and the first to take place on South Korean soil in 2020.
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The world number 3 Sung Hyun Park is the highest ranked player in the 150 player peloton where the purse is three billion won (£ 1,985,000) and 220 million won (£ 145,600) is awarded to the winner.
Sei Young Kim, ten-time winner of the LPGA Tour, and reigning U.S. champion Jeongeun Lee6, both appear, while former chief winner Hyo Koo Kim and Ha Na Jang are also in action .
Lee6 makes its first competitive start since the ISPS Handa Women & # 39; s Australian Open in February
The LPGA Tour will not resume until the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational from July 15 to 18, and the next Ladies European Tour tournament will currently be the Mediterranean Ladies Open from July 16 to 19.