{"id":1304,"date":"2024-05-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.34.14.113\/en\/2024\/05\/29\/golfzon-signs-sub-sponsorship-deal-with-kpga-pro-kim-hong-taek\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:12:15","slug":"golfzon-signs-sub-sponsorship-deal-with-kpga-pro-kim-hong-taek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/golfzon-signs-sub-sponsorship-deal-with-kpga-pro-kim-hong-taek\/","title":{"rendered":"GOLFZON Signs Sub-Sponsorship Deal with KPGA Pro Kim Hong-taek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><span>GOLFZON signs a sub-sponsorship agreement with KPGA pro Kim Hong-taek, who is active across both field and screen golf, supporting his stable tour activities and training<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><span>Kim Hong-taek won the \u201843rd GS Caltex Maekyung Open\u2019 in the 2024 season and holds the record for the most individual wins among men, with 13 career victories on the screen golf tour GTOUR<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><span>The company plans to take the lead in expanding the scale of field and screen tournaments and in providing support, to advance domestic golf tours and nurture golfers with potential<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/img_001_21e595c59aeedbe4-scaled-1-1024x641.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1305\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/img_001_21e595c59aeedbe4-scaled-1-1024x641.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/img_001_21e595c59aeedbe4-scaled-1-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/img_001_21e595c59aeedbe4-scaled-1-768x481.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/img_001_21e595c59aeedbe4-scaled-1-1536x962.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/img_001_21e595c59aeedbe4-scaled-1-2048x1282.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/img_001_21e595c59aeedbe4-scaled-1-1920x1202.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/img_001_21e595c59aeedbe4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><strong>Photo. GOLFZON announced that it is providing sub-sponsorship to KPGA pro Kim Hong-taek, who is active across both field and screen golf. At the sponsorship signing ceremony held at GOLFZON Joymaru on the 27th, (left) GOLFZON CEO Park Kang-soo and pro Kim Hong-taek pose for a commemorative photo.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>GOLFZON Co., Ltd.<\/span><span>(<\/span><span>Co-CEOs Park Kang-soo<\/span><span>\u00b7<\/span><span>Choi Duk-hyung<\/span><span>)<\/span><span> announced on the 29th that<\/span><span> it has signed a sponsorship agreement with pro Kim Hong-taek, who is active on the Korea Professional Golf Association (KPGA) tour, to support the stable tour activities and training of Kim, who moves between field and screen golf.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>The sponsorship signing ceremony was held on the 27th\n at GOLFZON Joymaru in Daejeon, attended by GOLFZON CEO Park Kang-soo, pro Kim Hong-taek, and other officials. The sub-sponsorship agreement runs until December 2025, and Kim will compete in all future tournaments wearing a cap bearing the GOLFZON logo.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>At the signing ceremony, Kim Hong-taek said, \u201cI am grateful to have signed a sponsorship deal with GOLFZON, a long-time partner that has worked hard for the development of Korea\u2019s screen golf tour, and I will continue to strive to be a player who performs well with strong results both on the field and on the screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>Kim Hong-taek won the glory of victory after a close playoff battle against Thailand\u2019s Chonlatit Chuenboonngam in the final round of the \u201843rd GS Caltex Maekyung Open,\u2019 held on the 5th at Namseoul Country Club in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>He first formed a bond with GOLFZON by lifting his maiden trophy at the screen golf tour GTOUR \u20182013-14 Men\u2019s Tournament Summer Season Round 4,\u2019 and with 2 wins in the 2023 season and 1 win in a mixed tournament in the 2024 season, he holds the title of most individual wins among men with 13 career GTOUR victories. In particular, ahead of this year\u2019s tour season, since December last year he has consistently trained at the GOLFZON LEADBETTER ACADEMY, which GOLFZON operates to develop world-class golf players. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>GOLFZON CEO Park Kang-soo said, \u201cBeginning with our first encounter through GOLFZON\u2019s screen golf tour GTOUR in 2013, I find it meaningful to have signed a sponsorship agreement with pro Kim Hong-taek, who is performing brilliantly across both field and screen golf,\u201d adding, \u201cAs Korea\u2019s leading golf company, we plan to do our best to provide generous support for the development of the domestic golf industry and the cultivation of competitive golfers going forward.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOLFZON Co., Ltd.(Co-CEOs Park Kang-soo\u00b7Choi Duk-hyung) announced on the 29th that it has signed a sponsorship agreement with pro Kim Hong-taek, who is active on the Korea Professional Golf Association (KPGA) tour, to support the stable tour activities and training of Kim, who moves between field and screen golf. The sponsorship signing ceremony was held on the 27th at GOLFZON Joymaru in Daejeon, attended by GOLFZON CEO Park Kang-soo, pro Kim Hong-taek, and other officials. The sub-sponsorship agreement runs until December 2025, and Kim will compete in all future tournaments wearing a cap bearing the GOLFZON logo. At the signing ceremony, Kim Hong-taek said, \u201cI am grateful to have signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"family":[15],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-center","category-press-release","family-golfzon-korea"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"family","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/family?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}