KPGA Lexus Tournament This Week: Shin Sang-hun, Jeong Chan-min, and Jang Yu-bin Vie for Grand Prix Points

The battle for the top spot in the Korea Professional Golfers' Association (KPGA) Tour grand prix points race among Shin Sang-hun, Jeong Chan-min, and Jang Yu-bin continues this week.

The 2026 Lexus Masters, which will be held for four days starting on the 29th at Club72 Country Club in Incheon, is the final tournament before the season-ending Tour Championship. A total of 102 players will compete for a total purse of 1 billion won, a winner's prize of 200 million won, and 1,000 grand prix points.

The players drawing the most attention are Shin Sang-hun, Jeong Chan-min, and Jang Yu-bin.

Shin Sang-hun leads the standings with 5,255.51 grand prix points, holding off second-place Jeong Chan-min (4,744.77 points) and third-place Jang Yu-bin (4,576.75 points).

For Shin Sang-hun to secure the grand prix title regardless of the final tournament's outcome, he must win this week's event to claim 1,000 points, while Jeong Chan-min must finish 4th or lower and Jang Yu-bin 2nd or lower.

Shin, who is on an upward trajectory in the second half of the season with two wins, said, "I believe that if I play with victory as my goal, good results will naturally follow. Rather than focusing on the point gap with other players, I will focus on the remaining two tournaments themselves."


Jeong Chan-min, who claimed a satisfying wire-to-wire victory at The Charity Classic that concluded on the 18th of this month, is also eyeing his first career grand prix title.

Jeong is one of the strong favorites to win, having secured not only a victory this year but also two runner-up finishes and six top-10 finishes, while leading the tour in scoring average at 69.54 strokes.

Jang Yu-bin was at the top of the grand prix standings with two wins in the first half of the season, but his pace has dropped sharply in the second half.

After finishing tied for 2nd at the Shinhan Donghae Open in September, he has failed to crack the top 20 in five subsequent tournaments.

Attention is focused on whether Jang, with only two tournaments remaining, can rebound in this week's event.

Meanwhile, upon the conclusion of this tournament, the top 70 players in the grand prix point rankings will advance to the season-ending KPGA Tour Championship, which opens on November 5 in Jeju.

(Photo provided by KPGA, Yonhap News)
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