{"id":3056,"date":"2026-05-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.34.14.113\/en\/2026\/05\/07\/open-to-everyone-the-2026-golfzon-china-open-surpasses-16000-korean-preliminary-participants-and-30000-rounds-played\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:09:58","slug":"open-to-everyone-the-2026-golfzon-china-open-surpasses-16000-korean-preliminary-participants-and-30000-rounds-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/open-to-everyone-the-2026-golfzon-china-open-surpasses-16000-korean-preliminary-participants-and-30000-rounds-played\/","title":{"rendered":"Open to Everyone, the &#8216;2026 GOLFZON China Open&#8217; Surpasses 16,000 Korean Preliminary Participants and 30,000 Rounds Played"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Global screen golf tournament with a total prize pool of KRW 4.25 billion; Korean preliminaries running through May 31 surpass 16,000 participants<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>300 qualifiers from the Korean preliminaries advance to the finals; Korean finals to be held at CITY GOLF Yanji in China this July and August<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Numerous KPGA and KLPGA top-tier tour pros, including Kim Hong-taek, Lim Jin-young, and Cho A-yeon, set to compete in the Korean finals scheduled for July<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"875\" src=\"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Photo-GOLFZON-is-holding-the-Korean-preliminaries-for-the-global-screen-golf-tournament-2026-GOLFZON-China-Open-from-March-10-to-May-31_-1024x875.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3055\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Photo-GOLFZON-is-holding-the-Korean-preliminaries-for-the-global-screen-golf-tournament-2026-GOLFZON-China-Open-from-March-10-to-May-31_-1024x875.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Photo-GOLFZON-is-holding-the-Korean-preliminaries-for-the-global-screen-golf-tournament-2026-GOLFZON-China-Open-from-March-10-to-May-31_-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Photo-GOLFZON-is-holding-the-Korean-preliminaries-for-the-global-screen-golf-tournament-2026-GOLFZON-China-Open-from-March-10-to-May-31_-768x656.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Photo-GOLFZON-is-holding-the-Korean-preliminaries-for-the-global-screen-golf-tournament-2026-GOLFZON-China-Open-from-March-10-to-May-31_-1536x1312.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Photo-GOLFZON-is-holding-the-Korean-preliminaries-for-the-global-screen-golf-tournament-2026-GOLFZON-China-Open-from-March-10-to-May-31_.jpg 1649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>(Photo)&nbsp;GOLFZON&nbsp;is&nbsp;holding&nbsp;the Korean preliminaries for the global screen golf tournament &#8216;2026&nbsp;GOLFZON China Open&#8217; from March&nbsp;10 to May&nbsp;31<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">GOLFZON Co., Ltd. (CEO Park Kang-soo) announced on the 7th that the Korean preliminaries for the global screen golf tournament&nbsp;&#8216;2026&nbsp;GOLFZON China Open,&#8217;&nbsp;running through&nbsp;May&nbsp;31, are proceeding successfully, with more than&nbsp;16,000 golfers participating and the number of rounds played surpassing&nbsp;30,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The &#8216;2026&nbsp;GOLFZON CHINA OPEN&#8217; is a global screen golf tour open to golfers worldwide, from professionals to amateurs. The tournament&#8217;s total prize pool has been doubled from the previous year to&nbsp;CNY&nbsp;20 million (approximately&nbsp;KRW 4.25 billion), with a winner&#8217;s prize of&nbsp;CNY&nbsp;5 million (approximately&nbsp;KRW 1.05 billion). Golfers from across the globe\u2014including Korea, China, Asia (excluding Korea and China), the Americas, and Europe\u2014will participate, advancing through online and offline preliminaries and finals in each region before the grand finals are held at a CITY GOLF venue in China this&nbsp;December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Korean preliminaries have been running online since&nbsp;March&nbsp;10 at GOLFZON stores nationwide equipped with Vision Plus, TwoVision, and TwoVision NX, divided into a general division and a professional division (holders of KPGA, KLPGA, and USGTF credentials as well as pros affiliated with GTOUR). The Korean preliminary courses, played through&nbsp;May&nbsp;31, are China&#8217;s Mission Hills-Blackstone and Mission Hills-World Cup, with top performers selected by combining the best scores from the&nbsp;2 courses in each division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, the number of Korean preliminary participants has surpassed&nbsp;16,000 and the number of rounds played has exceeded&nbsp;30,000, with many golfers taking part in fierce qualifying competition. A total of&nbsp;300 players will earn the right to advance to the finals through these preliminaries, and the finals will be held offline at GOLFZON CITY GOLF Yanji in China across two schedules in&nbsp;July and&nbsp;August. The finals will also be divided into a general division and a professional division and played in a 2-round stroke play format, selecting&nbsp;20 final qualifiers (5 from the general division and&nbsp;15 from the professional division).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In particular, numerous renowned KPGA and KLPGA top-tier tour pros will compete in the Korean finals scheduled for&nbsp;July under recommended qualifications, raising the competitiveness of the global screen golf tour and conveying its appeal to many golfers and golf fans. Participating players include Kim Hong-taek, a golf &#8220;two-way player&#8221; with winning records on both screen and field; Lim Jin-young, winner of the Rejuran Championship, the opening event of the&nbsp;2026&nbsp;KLPGA season; and Cho A-yeon, a former youngest-ever national team member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The &#8216;2026&nbsp;GOLFZON China Open&#8217; will proceed through the regional finals in Korea, China, and elsewhere by&nbsp;August, before determining the final champion at GOLFZON CITY GOLF in China over four days from&nbsp;December&nbsp;17 to&nbsp;20. In addition, to showcase to global golf fans the technological prowess of GOLFZON simulators and the appeal of a screen golf tour staged at the urban golf course CITY GOLF, a simultaneous worldwide live broadcast will be conducted through various channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Son Jang-soon, head of GOLFZON&#8217;s New Business Division, said, &#8220;We invite many people to take part in this global screen golf tour, held at CITY GOLF, which combines the GOLFZON system from around the world with the advantages of both screen and field golf,&#8221; adding, &#8220;We hope this tournament becomes a venue for exchange among golfers worldwide, and we will continue to work to host a variety of tournaments and revitalize golf tours based on GOLFZON&#8217;s technological capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, together with its joint venture GOLFZON China, GOLFZON plans to continue multifaceted support\u2014such as expanding the foundation of indoor golf and creating a global screen golf tour environment that golfers worldwide can enjoy together\u2014based on CITY GOLF&#8217;s first China location in Tianjin and its second China location in Yanji.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOLFZON Co., Ltd. (CEO Park Kang-soo) announced on the 7th that the Korean preliminaries for the global screen golf tournament&nbsp;&#8216;2026&nbsp;GOLFZON China Open,&#8217;&nbsp;running through&nbsp;May&nbsp;31, are proceeding successfully, with more than&nbsp;16,000 golfers participating and the number of rounds played surpassing&nbsp;30,000. The &#8216;2026&nbsp;GOLFZON CHINA OPEN&#8217; is a global screen golf tour open to golfers worldwide, from professionals to amateurs. The tournament&#8217;s total prize pool has been doubled from the previous year to&nbsp;CNY&nbsp;20 million (approximately&nbsp;KRW 4.25 billion), with a winner&#8217;s prize of&nbsp;CNY&nbsp;5 million (approximately&nbsp;KRW 1.05 billion). Golfers from across the globe\u2014including Korea, China, Asia (excluding Korea and China), the Americas, and Europe\u2014will participate, advancing through online and offline preliminaries and finals in each region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"family":[51],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","family-golfzon-china"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","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=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4467,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/4467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"family","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/family?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}