KAPALUA, Hawaii — On Wednesday nights before a tournament, K. J. Choi visits the Korean Baptist church closest to the course he is playing, a practice that dates to when he was the PGA Tour’s first and only full-time player from South Korea. In the familiar hymns, sung in his native tongue, Choi experiences a connection, a communion, that he struggled at first to forge on the tour, where the courses and the language were foreign to him.

The echoes of home that Choi had to search for a decade ago, he will be able to find this week on the practice green and driving range at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, the site of the year’s first full-field tour event. Choi’s prayer, finally, has been answered; the door he cracked open in 2000 is being knocked down in 2012 by 11 players of South Korean descent, led by a baby-faced 20-year-old, Seung-Yul Noh, who is poised to become golf’s next rising star.

“I’m so happy,” Choi, an eight-time tour winner, said last week. “It’s my dream to see this happening.”

For more than a decade, South Korean women have worn a path to the winner’s circle in professional golf. Two years before Choi made his PGA Tour debut, Se Ri Pak won four events, including two majors, as a rookie on the L.P.G.A. Tour. She thus opened a pipeline that has flooded the women’s game with golfers known collectively as the Seoul Sisters and infused the tour with corporate and broadcasting partners based in Asia.