'6 KPGA wins → LIV Golf failed' Jang Yoo-bin's return, "Sorryingly regrettable report card, came back to some extent."

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Jang Yoo-bin (24, Shinhan Financial Group) will return to the Korea Professional Golf Association (KPGA) Tour.

Jang Yoo-bin, who has three wins on the KPGA Tour, including a victory as an amateur at the 2023 KPGA Gunsan CC Open, and the 2024 KPGA Gunsan CC Open and the Baeksong Holdings-Asiad CC Busan Open, will return to the KPGA Tour this year.

Jang Yu-bin laughed, saying, "It's been a while since I've greeted my Korean fans," and added, "I'm grateful to say hello with the news of my return to the KPGA Tour." We are preparing hard for the season, thinking about the fans who are constantly supporting us," he said.

Jang Yu-bin, who entered the professional league with the gold medal in the team event of the "19th Hangzhou Asian Games" held in October 2023, lifted two more cups in the 2024 season, his second year of debut. That year, Jang Yu-bin played in 21 KPGA Tour tournaments and entered the top 10 11 times, including two wins and five runner-ups.

Based on these performances, he swept KRW 1,129,047,083 in the 2024 season alone, setting a new record of exceeding KRW 1 billion in prize money for the first season of the KPGA Tour. That year, Jang Yu-bin won a total of six categories, including the Genesis Grand Prize, the Genesis Prize, the Deokchun Prize, the Most Improved Player (M.I.P.), the TOP10 Finish Prize, and the Jangta Prize.

Jang Yoo-bin, who chose to challenge at LIV Golf in the 2025 season, said, "I received a report card that was embarrassing and sorry to say hello to you again last season. At the beginning of last year when I played in LIV Golf, the distance decreased and the ball speed did not come out as well as I thought. There were a lot of difficulties because I couldn't take lessons properly while traveling overseas."

"I'm disappointed in my performance, but I've learned a lot from playing with world-class players. In particular, Cameron Smith's ability to manage the game and manage the crisis was most impressive. I was motivated by the thought that 'a world-class player is different,' he recalled.

Jang Yoo-bin returned to Korea after training in Vietnam for about a month from January to mid-February, and is speeding up preparations for his return to the KPGA Tour in earnest. On February 21, he attended the "2026 Mail Business Golf Expo" and had a time to meet domestic fans for the first time in a long time.

Jang Yoo-bin, who is about to return to the domestic tour for the first time in a year, said, "I took a break for about two months after the end of the season and went to off-season training. During the last season, he trained mainly on swing posture, reduced distance, and ball speed that he couldn't correct. One of the goals of the training was to revive the driver's shot sense," he said.

"I made a lot of effort to regain my condition when I was playing the KPGA Tour in 2024. By the end of the off-season training, I felt that my skills had returned to some extent. The direction ahead is also well established. Currently, we aim to fully return the sense of distance as soon as possible," he said.

Meanwhile, Jang plans to play in front of fans in the 2026 season by playing the KPGA Tour and the Asian Tour International Series.

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