The best players from the Asian Tour which includes four Order of Merit champions, will head to the Lion City for the SMBC Singapore Open which tees off next week. Making a welcome return after a three-year absence, the Singapore showpiece will be co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and Japan Golf Tour Organisation (JGTO). It will be played at the …
The outcome of the SMBC Singapore Open could hinge on the 18th at Sentosa Golf Club’s Serapong Course, one of the most deceptive and decisive finishing holes in championship golf. Past tournaments have been decided on the par-five hole and Andrew Johnston, General Manager/Director of Agronomy at Sentosa Golf Club, believes that could be the case again when the SMBC …
Multiple winner Shingo Katayama and Kim Kyung-tae, who triumphed five times during an extraordinary 2015 season, will lead a power-packed contingent from the Japan Tour into next week’s SMBC Singapore Open. Katayama (pictured) and Kim, world ranked 58th and 59th respectively, will be joined by 12 other champions from the 2015 season, including Japan Open titleholder Satoshi Kodaira. They will …
BMW has been appointed the “Official Luxury Motor Vehicle” for the prestigious SMBC Singapore Open, which will take place in Singapore at the Sentosa Golf Club from 28-31 January, 2016. The tournament will see the participation of world class golfers including Jordan Spieth (current world number one and the winner of two Majors in 2015), who will be whisked around …
Singapore number one Mardan Mamat will be joined by 10 countrymen in the local assault on the SMBC Singapore Open later this month. Veteran Mardan has qualified for the elite field thanks to his victory in last year’s Bashundhara Bangladesh Open on the Asian Tour while the Singapore Professional Golfers’ Association has been handed six spots and four amateurs will …
The Serapong Course at Sentosa Golf Club (SGC) has for the first time been ranked in Golf Digest’s World’s Greatest Top-100 Golf Courses emphatically positioning it as the region’s number one layout. SGC, home of this month’s SMBC Singapore Open, clinched the 58th spot globally, making it Southeast Asia’s best golf course and the only Singapore golf course that has …
SMBC Singapore Open drawcard Jordan Spieth underlined his standing as world number one with a runaway eight-shot victory in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Hawaii on Sunday. Spieth brought his 2015 form into the New Year with a commanding performance at Kapalua. A final-round 67 saw him finish at 30-under 262 to join Ernie Els as the only players …
In-form Jamie Donaldson, Europe’s Ryder Cup hero in 2014, will bid for back-to-back wins In Asia when he tees it up at the SMBC Singapore Open later this month. The world number 46 triumphed at the Thailand Golf Championship in December to round off his season in style and is now looking for another morale-boasting victory. He will face an …
The presence of double Major winner Jordan Spieth at this year’s SMBC Singapore Open has put welcome added pressure onto the staff at Sentosa Golf Club to prepare a golf course fit for the world number one and the thousands of spectators expected to watch his every shot. “As soon as I saw the press release (announcing Spieth as the …
The Arc Children’s Centre in Singapore will be the Official Charity for next year’s SMBC Singapore Open at Sentosa Golf Club organisers announced today. The Arc Children’s Centre, whose patron is Mrs Goh Chok Tong, provides a day centre for cancer stricken children and their siblings or other life-threatening illnesses and was the Official Charity when the prestigious tournament was …
