Ballantine's Championship

Infobox_Golf_Tournament
tournament_name = Ballantine's Championship
nickname =


location = flagicon|KOR Jeju Island, South Korea
establishment = 2008
course = Pinx Golf Club
par = 72
yardage = 7,345
tour = European Tour
Asian Tour
format = Stroke play
purse = €2,000,000
month_played = March
aggregate = 264 Graeme McDowell
264 Jeev Milkha Singh
to-par = -24 Graeme McDowell
-24 Jeev Milkha Singh
Current Champion = Graeme McDowellThe Ballantine's Championship is a golf tournament which will be played for the first time on 13-16 March 2008 at Pinx Golf Club on the island of Jeju in South Korea. It is the first European Tour event to be staged in Korea.

The tournament was announced in July 2007 by the European Tour in partnership with the Korean PGA, [ [http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?pagegid=%7B5A258B31%2D8294%2D4C0E%2DB8B9%2DA796F6009E52%7D&newsid=441124 Launch announcement from europeantour.com Ballantine's brings first European Tour event to Korea] ] marking a continuation of the European Tour's expansion into Asia. The Asian Tour, which had not been offered the co-sanctioning rights to which it felt it was entitled, responded by calling the event an "invasive" action that "colonised" Asia in "blatant disregard" of the "principles of the International Federation of PGA Tours" [ [http://www.asiantour.com/story.htm?id=2573 Asian Tour statement on European Tour announcement] "asiantour.com", 3 July 2007.] , but six months later it agreed terms to co-sanction the tournament. [ [http://www.asiantour.com/story.htm;jsessionid=F75E1E73AD535375E180AD24B2112119?id=3313 Tour schedule bolstered by Korean and Indian events] , "asiantour.com", 15 January 2008.] The prize fund in the first year will be €2 million (circa US$2.9 million).

Winners

ee also

*Korean Open

References

External links

* [http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?pageid=127&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0%2DEFF5%2D4C05%2DAB0F%2DFD08D947D944%7D&eventid=2008020&infosid=3 Coverage on European Tour's official site]
* [http://www.asiantour.com/event.htm?id=200 Coverage on Asian Tour's official site]