Lee Ye-won, the best player on the 2023 Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association KLPGA Tour, will win for the second consecutive time and defend the title. Competition between Bang Shin-sil, Hwang Yoo-min and Kim Min-byul, who are still competing for the second-year trio, is also joining Shin Ji-ae, who is making all-out efforts to aim for the 2024 Paris Olympics, heating up the heat of the opening game in Korea.

Lee Ye-won and 120 other strong players in Korean women's golf will play their first domestic competition of the season at the KLPGA Tour Doosan E&C Weave Championship total prize money of 1.2 billion won at Teddy Valley Golf & Resort in Seogwipo, Jeju Island from the 4th. The KLPGA Tour, which opened its season early in Singapore and Thailand last month, will move to Korea and continue its long journey of 30 tournaments with total prize money of 32 billion won until November.

Lee Ye-won, who is in her third year since her debut, won her first career victory at the Lotte Rent-A-Car Women's Open last year, and then won the Doosan E&C Weave Championship August and was reborn as a top player by winning the Hite Jinro Championship October, a major competition.

Lee Ye-won will keep the title of the opening game in Korea in other competitions as the Lotte Rent-A-Car Women's Open was abolished and Doosan Engineering & Construction's Weave Championship entered the place. Lee Ye-won, who added one win early on in the Blue Canyon Ladies Championship Thailand at the second tournament of this season, aims to win two consecutive tournaments and win two consecutive tournaments at the same time.

"It's my first competition as a defending champion, so I want to do well," Lee Ye-won said. "I made my best season by winning the domestic opening game last year, and I will play with good memories of last year rather than thinking about records or titles this year."

Bang Shin-sil, the long-shot queen who won two games as a rookie in 2023, showed off her winter training results by ranking second and tied for fourth in Singapore and Thailand last month, respectively. Bang Shin-sil, who is considered the strongest candidate to shake up this season by adding sophistication to her long hit, said, "I was disappointed that I missed the cut last year because I made a lot of tee shot mistakes," adding, "Since we have sophistication this year, we will do our best to pass the preliminary round and produce good results."

Competition between Hwang Yoo-min and rookie Kim Min-byul, who won one game last year by checking Bang Shin-sil's long hit, and Kim Jae-hee, who won his first championship at the season-opening Hana Financial Group Singapore Open, is also worth paying attention to.

Shin Ji-ae, who is active in Japan, will join the KLPGA tour for the first time in three years and eight months. "I want to express my gratitude to the fans who have supported me to become a golfer," said Shin Ji-ae, who won the BC Card Classic in 2008 at the same course.

There is also a lot of interest in Yoon Na, a long hitter who was a member of the national team who returned to Korea through the tournament after being cut to half after receiving a three-year suspension for Ogu Play. I wonder how Yoon Na, who is under great pressure due to the mixed criticism that she is returning too early and the support of enthusiastic fans, will perform. 스포츠토토

Meanwhile, Park Min-ji, who has six consecutive wins in 2021 and 2022, will not participate to focus on the Chevron Championship at the major LPGA Tour tournament in the United States.