Singapore Masters

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Singapore Masters
Tournament information
Location Singapore
Established 2001
Course(s) Laguna National Golf and Country Club
Par 72
Length 7,207 yards
Tour(s) European Tour
Asian Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund 1,000,000
Month played February
Final year 2007
Final champion
Liang Wen-Chong

The Singapore Masters was an annual men's professional golf tournament which was played in Singapore from 2001 to 2007. It was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the European Tour, and was one of many European Tour events established in East Asia since the early 1990s.

There have been two important firsts at the Singapore Masters. At the 2002 event, Arjun Atwal became the first Indian golfer to win on the European Tour, and the following year Zhang Lian-wei became the first golfer from the People's Republic of China to do so when he overcame then world number 2 Ernie Els on the final hole. In 2006 the prize fund was $1,000,000, which is one of the smaller purses on the European Tour.

There is also a Singapore Open golf tournament, which is part of the Asian Tour's schedule. It is the Asian Tour's flagship event and carries higher prize money than the Singapore Masters.

The 2008 event was canceled following a failure to find a sponsor for the event.[1]

Winners

Year Winner Country Score To par Margin
of victory
Runner(s)-up
Clariden Leu Singapore Masters
2007 Liang Wen-Chong  China 276 −11 Playoff Malaysia Iain Steel
OSIM Singapore Masters
2006 Mardan Mamat  Singapore 276 −12 1 stroke England Nick Dougherty
Caltex Masters, presented by Carlsberg
2005 Nick Dougherty  England 270 −18 5 strokes Netherlands Maarten Lafeber
Scotland Colin Montgomerie
2004 Colin Montgomerie  Scotland 272 −16 3 strokes United States Gregory Hanrahan
2003 Zhang Lian-wei  China 278 −10 1 stroke South Africa Ernie Els
Caltex Singapore Masters, presented by Carlsberg
2002 Arjun Atwal  India 274 −14 5 strokes Australia Richard Green
Caltex Singapore Masters
2001 Vijay Singh  Fiji 263 −21 2 strokes England Warren Bennett

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