Negotiations on having Korean tour players compete at an LPGA tournament on their home soil have fallen through, officials said Thursday. The Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) said in a statement that the upcoming BMW Ladies Championship, the lone U.S. LPGA event held in Korea each fall, will not be co-sanctioned with the Korean circuit, after the LPGA declined to accept the Korean proposal of having at least 30 homegrown players in the field of 78 players. The BMW Ladies Championship is scheduled to take place from Oct. 22 to 25 at Pine Beach Golf Links in Haenam, some 330 kilometers south of Seoul in South Jeolla Province. The KLPGA said it had met with its LPGA counterpart on 16 occasions over the past eight months and insisted that there would have to be a minimum 30 KLPGA players teeing off in order for the tournament to be co-sanctioned with the domestic tour. However, the LPGA countered that it could only accept up to 10 KLPGA players and the two sides were not able to come to a compromise. The KLPGA said it was willing to make concessions on other aspects of the t