Singapore Open (Golf)

The Singapore Open is a golf tournament in Singapore, which will be played on the Asian Tour since 1995. It was founded in 1961 and suspended in 2001 due to lack of sponsor support.

The Singapore Golf Association initially hoped to revive the event, but you could see the Sentosa Leisure Group undertake as a new sponsor in 2005. In 2005, the prize money amounted to two million U.S. dollars, which the Singapore Open is the most expensive by far the tournament, which takes place exclusively on the Asian Tour and is not mitausgetragen of the European Tour. From 2009 to 2012, the tournament also part of the European tour was.

2006 offered the Singapore Open a sum of three million U.S. dollars, with a winning percentage of 475,000 U.S. dollars. In May 2006 it was announced that Barclays Bank would sponsor the event for five years from 2006, and that the prize money would be raised in 2007 and 2008 to four million to five million U.S. dollars. 2010, the payment of six million U.S. dollars.

List of winners

Host to Asian and European Tour

Before membership in the European Tour

Multiple winners

Five golfers have won this tournament in 2010 to more than once.

  • 3 wins Adam Scott: 2005, 2006, 2010
  • 2 wins Frank Phillips: 1961, 1965
  • Ben Arda: 1967, 1973
  • Hsieh Yung- yo: 1968, 1970
  • Lu Chien -soon: 1983, 1989

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