Ballantine's Championship
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| Ballantine's Championship | |
| Tournament information | |
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| Location |  Jeju Island, South Korea |
| Established | 2008 |
| Course(s) | Pinx Golf Club |
| Par | 72 |
| Yardage | 7,345 |
| Tour(s) | European Tour Asian Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Purse | €2,000,000 |
| Month Played | March |
| Tournament record scores | |
| Aggregate | 264 Graeme McDowell 264 Jeev Milkha Singh |
| To-par | -24 Graeme McDowell -24 Jeev Milkha Singh |
| Current champion | |
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The 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,[1] 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"[2], but six months later it agreed terms to co-sanction the tournament.[3] The prize fund in the first year will be €2 million (circa US$2.9 million).
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| Year | Winner | Country |
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| 2008 | Graeme McDowell |  Northern Ireland |
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