The Blue Canyon Ladies Championship 2025, to be held between Mar 13-16, 2025, is the second consecutive year that the tournament has been held in Thailand and marks the opening course of the 2025 season of the KLPGA Tour.
In addition to leading female golfers from the KLPGA Tour joining the competition, there will be a further 40 golfers invited to join the competition. These will be the the top eight players from the Thai LPGA Tour Order of Merit, the top four from the Japan LPGA Tour Order of Merit and two leading golfers from each of the following countries: India, Indonesia, Philippines, China, Taiwan, Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Malaysia.
Furthermore, two Thai and one international golfers from national qualifiers and seven players from sponsors will make up the contingent.
This is an extension of the success of last year’s competition by Blue Canyon and the KLPGA Tour in organising the competition in Thailand for the first time. That tournament winner was South Korea’s Lee Ye-won, who scored a total of 9 under par 207, one of three tournaments she won in 2024.
“Last year was one of the most exciting competitions which created excitement for the golf industry in Thailand,” commented Prapan Asava-aree, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Blue Canyon Country Club.
“This year, we are trying to bring our experience in organising the tournament to be more fun and exciting than last year. We have also invited leading golfers from both the Thai LPGA Tour and leading female golfers from across Asia to add colour to the competition, while opening the National Qualifiers round to give Thai female golfers and foreign golfers a chance to join and gain experience in the competition.”
Blue Canyon Golf Course is a championship standard golf course recognised for its beauty and challenges. In November it was voted the Best Golf Course in Thailand by the World Golf Awards 2024 in Madeira, Portugal, the second time that the course has won this award. In 2018, the course received the ASEAN Golf Awards and the Best Golf Course in Asia award from AsiaMoney for three consecutive years (2004, 2005 and 2007). In April, The course is also set to host another international women’s amateur golf tournament, the “Annika Invitational Asia”.
The KLPGA is a professional women’s golf league in South Korea, one of the world’s largest women’s golf tours. The tournament was first held in 1977 and is based on the Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking, one of eight golf tours, along with the LPGA Tour, Japan LPGA Tour, Ladies European Tour, WPGA Tour, Epson Tour, Ladies European Tour Access Series and China LPGA Tour. The KLPGA celebrates its 47th year in 2024 with a total of 31 events.