Everything you need to know from last week's Genesis Championship.
A home winner
For the second year running, the Genesis Championship - co-sanctioned with the KPGA Tour - provided a Korean winner.
After Byeong Hun An 12 months ago, this time it was the turn of Junghwan Lee to celebrate success in his homeland.
A member of the KPGA Tour, the 34-year-old surged up the leaderboard on the final day to win for the first time on the DP World Tour in his sixth start.
Starting four shots behind joint leaders Mikael Lindberg and Nacho Elvira, Lee recovered from a bogey at the second to reel off five straight birdies from the third.
After another gain at the tenth saw him move within one of solo leader Elvira, he made further birdies at the 14th and last to card the lowest round of the tournament with a seven-under 64 and set the clubhouse target of 11 under par.
Elvira could not keep pace and bogeys at the last two holes saw him hand a three-shot victory to Lee at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club.
With his victory, Lee has taken up membership and will be in the field for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship - the opening event of the DP World Tour Play-Offs.
"I feel like I'm in a dream, I still can't believe I won so it's really hard to describe how I'm feeling right now," Lee said.
"I think overall I played very well, but on 12 I had a tee-shot miss and I thought I was done there but I was able to save that ball, and that's when I thought the tables are turning and the gods are looking down on me.
"I really feeling like I'm dreaming. I really, really wanted to go to DP World Tour and I was actually working really hard towards that goal, but somehow I was coming up short a little bit - I was really making the effort - and now I have this really great opportunity. I'm just really grateful."
A miracle finish to keep your card
As the final event of the regular season on the DP World Tour, drama was inevitable in Korea but nobody could have written the script that saw Jordan Gumberg retain his card in last-gasp fashion.
With the top 115 players on the Race to Dubai Rankings securing their card for next season, the American came into the week needing a big week at 127th.
And, as it transpired, his season came down to one shot, pitching in from 58 yards at the 18th for an eagle in the final round to finish the campaign in 110th place.
"I'm at a loss for words," Gumberg said after his final round at the Genesis Championship.
"I saw the ball land on the green and trickle over the hill, you couldn't see anything, and the crowd went nuts, we went nuts. It was the best shot I've hit in my career so far.
"I didn't think we needed to hole it, but we were looking to get one more and obviously it's an added plus when it went in so I'm ecstatic."
While a little less dramatic, Thomas Detry - a PGA TOUR winner this season - also left it late to retain his category 10 status on the DP World Tour as the Belgian carded a closing birdie on Sunday to climb from 129th to 113th and inside the cut-off.
Paul 'devastated' to lose DP World Tour card
For some there was joy, for others there was despair.
With a missed cut, Yannik Paul consigned himself to a return to Qualifying School next month.
The German began the week in the ominous position of 116th place, however, an eight over 79 in his first round in Cheonan derailed any hope of a fifth straight year on the DP World Tour despite shooting level par on Friday.
Having been a contender for the European Ryder Cup team in 2023, when he recorded seven top ten finishes that campaign, Paul knew his performance across the season just hadn't hit the required levels.
"You know, for three and a half years I felt like I played pretty decent and then a couple of things happen and all of a sudden you don't really have a place to play next year," he reflected.
"I do feel like I belong out here and just didn't really play well when it mattered. So yeah, obviously pretty devastated, but yeah, it's what it is.
"At the moment obviously I’m quite disappointed. Really disappointed actually."
Canter back on track for PGA TOUR card
Laurie Canter will head to the DP World Tour Play-Offs in a strong position to secure dual membership on the PGA TOUR.
A remarkable 100-foot eagle putt from short of the 18th green during the climax of the event on Sunday helped him to finish in a tie for second.
With it, the 35-year-old climbed five places to ninth on the Race to Dubai Rankings and is now in possession of the sixth card of the ten on offer via the DP World Tour’s season-long standings.
After a strong start to the year, featuring his second DP World Tour title in Bahrain, Canter has struggled for form in recent months and he was elated to be back on the up ahead of the closing two Rolex Series events of the campaign in the Middle East.
"We play such a frustrating game and I feel like at the beginning of the year I felt like I had a lot of momentum and had it on a piece of string and [since] then it has been hard work," he said.
"I have felt like I am paddling upstream for six to eight months.
"I fell out of the PGA TOUR card race this week so that was on my mind. I wanted to go to the Play-Offs and feel like I am not playing with a gun to my head totally, I can go out and embrace the chance to go and get one of those cards."
Set for the Play-Offs
At the end of last week, the top 70 on the Race to Dubai Rankings would guarantee themselves a spot at the opening event of the DP World Tour Play-Offs.
Lee, Elvira and Andrea Pavan were the three players to force their way inside the cut-off mark, with Rafa Cabrera Bello the man to finish on the number after a tie for 14th.
But while there appeared to be initial disapointment for others, the absence of four players from top 70 in the final entry list for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship has since prompted good news for Mikael Lindberg, Ryggs Johnston, Jeong weon Ko and Joe Dean.
