A hundred and twenty golfers are competing in the Genesis Championship from Thursday through Sunday at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club in Songdo, Incheon, for an overall purse of 1.5 billion won ($1.04 million). With one of the biggest purses on the Korean Tour, the 2022 Genesis Championship is the 19th tournament of this year’s KPGA (Korea Professional Golfers’ Association) season. The winner will...

For the fourth consecutive season, the South Korean club football title will come down to Ulsan Hyundai FC and Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. And the two bitter rivals will meet for one last time this season Saturday. The murky title picture could gain more clarity after the weekend, or it could get thrown into even further chaos. The kickoff is at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Munsu Football Stadium in the s...

A largely disappointing regular season for South Korean players in Major League Baseball (MLB) drew to a conclusion across the United States on Wednesday, with two of five Koreans who saw action this year moving on to the postseason. One of them, San Diego Padres shortstop Kim Ha-seong, was the best of the South Korean bunch in 2022. In his second big league season, Kim established himself as a ...

The SSG Landers captured the South Korean baseball regular season title without even playing on Tuesday, becoming the first team in league history to go wire to wire for the direct ticket to the championship series. The Landers, at 88-49-4 (wins-losses-ties), locked down first place in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), after second-place LG Twins suffered an 8-3 loss to the Kia Tigers on Tu...

One match into the final phase of the 2022 K League 1 season following the three-day weekend, there has been no change at the top of the tables. Ulsan Hyundai FC entered the split stage of the season leading Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors by five points. The two teams each won their matches last Saturday, and Ulsan continue to lead Jeonbuk by the same margin, 69-64. The rivals will clash for one final ...

For the first time in his major league career, the San Diego Padres' South Korean infielder Kim Ha-seong will play in the postseason this month. The Padres lost to the Chicago White Sox 2-1 at Petco Park in San Diego on Sunday (local time). However, with the Milwaukee Brewers losing to the Miami Marlins 4-3 on the same day, the Padres secured one of three Wild Card berths in the National League ...

The final stretch of the 2022 K League 1 football season will kick off this week, with six matches spread over the three-day National Foundation Day weekend. After 33 matches, the six best teams in the top division were grouped into "Final A," while the rest were dropped into "Final B." They will now play five more games within their own groups to finish out the season. Ulsan Hyundai FC, nursin...

INCHEON -- LPGA legend Annika Sorenstam took fans of women's golf on a trip down memory lane in June this year, when she played at the US Women's Open for her first LPGA major appearance since 2008. The tournament took place at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in North Carolina, where Sorenstam had won the second of her three US Women's Open titles. Don't count on the Swede being back at next ye...

South Korea will have their final World Cup tuneup match at full strength Tuesday night against Cameroon, with question marks regarding their defense hanging over their head. The kickoff between world No. 28 South Korea and No. 38 Cameroon is 8 p.m. Tuesday at Seoul World Cup Stadium. South Korea eked out a 2-2 draw against Costa Rica last Friday, with captain Son Heung-min delivering a late fr...

South Korean rookie Kim Joo-hyung helped lead a late push by the International Team on the penultimate day of the Presidents Cup, putting pressure on the United States as the match play golf competition heads into the final stretch. Kim, the youngest player in the event at 20, teamed up with countryman Kim Si-woo to defeat Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele 1-up in their afternoon fourball ma...

Two former Grand Slam women's singles champions reached the quarterfinals of the WTA event in Seoul on Thursday, staying on a collision course for a duel in the semis. Emma Raducanu of Britain, the 2021 US Open champion, defeated Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium 6-3, 7-5 in the round of 16 at the Hana Bank Korea Open at Olympic Park Tennis Center in Seoul. In the following match, the top seed Jelena...

Reigning Olympic men's tennis champion Alexander Zverev has pulled out of the upcoming ATP Tour event in Seoul with a lingering ankle injury, the tournament organizers announced Thursday. Officials of the Eugene Korea Open said Zverev is still recovering from his ankle injury sustained during his semifinal loss to Rafael Nadal at the French Open in June. Zverev, a two-time ATP Finals winner and...

British teen tennis sensation Emma Raducanu readily admits she has not been on a conventional developmental trajectory for an athlete her age. After winning the US Open women's singles title last year as an out-of-nowhere qualifier, the 19-year-old Raducanu has fallen on some hard times, dropping from No. 10 to No. 77 in the world rankings without winning another title. She thinks she's paying t...

An American squad with 11 of the world's 18 top-ranked players is ready for the Presidents Cup, which begins on Thursday (local time), as huge favorites for a ninth consecutive victory over a depleted Internationals line-up. Top-ranked Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, No. 4 Patrick Cantlay, fifth-ranked Tokyo Olympic champion Xander Schauffele and multiple major winners Justin Thomas, Jorda...

Having recently flipped the narrative on his season with a stunning hat trick, Tottenham Hotspur star Son Heung-min will look to stay hot as South Korea's captain in a World Cup tuneup match this week. Son and South Korea will host Costa Rica at Goyang Stadium in Goyang, just northwest of Seoul, at 8 p.m. Friday. It will be the first of two friendly matches for South Korea this month, with Camer...