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It has been announced that the DP World Tour’s 2025 Genesis Championship will take place from October 23 to 26 at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club, Cheonan, Korea.
The $4 million tournament is the final event on the “Back 9” and the last regular event on the DP World Tour for players to keep their playing privileges for the following season. It is also their final chance to break into the top 70 on the Race to Dubai Rankings.
At the conclusion of the Genesis Championship, the top 70 available players will gather in Abu Dhabi for the fourth Rolex Series event of the season and the first of two events on the DP World Tour play-offs.
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Co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour and KPGA Tour, the Genesis Championship defending champion Ben An will return to Korea to defend his title, joining a field of 36 KPGA Tour players and 90 DP World Tour players.
Woo Jeong Hills Country Club, located in South Chungcheong, approximately 90 minutes from Seoul, opened in 1993 and was designed by Perry Dye.
It has hosted the Kolon Korea Open from 2003 – 2024, with former winners of the event including John Daly (2003), Vijay Singh (2007) and Ricky Fowler (2011). Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy was runner-up in 2011 and 2013.
Woo Jeong Hills Country Club features steep undulating fairways, challenging green complexes and 12 water hazards, all framed by forested mountains. The outward nine at Woo Jeong features the par-5 fifth with a hazard, trees and flower beds flanking the right side of the fairway, as well as a view of the surrounding mountains framing the distant green.
The inward nine is home to the signature 221-yard par-3 13th played to a tiny island green, as well as the daunting par-5 18th with a green surrounded by a grassed amphitheatre. Often described as western-style, many holes are reminiscent of the Dye family’s famous work in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
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