The Singapore Masters was an annual men's professional
golf
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Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
tournament which was played in
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...
from 2001 to 2007. It was co-sanctioned by the
Asian Tour
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and the
European Tour
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, 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
Arjun Singh Atwal (born 20 March 1973) is an Indian professional golfer who has played on the Asian Tour and the European Tour and is the first player born in India to become a member of, and later win a tournament on the U.S.-based PGA Tour.
...
became the first
India
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n golfer to win on the European Tour, and the following year
Zhang Lianwei
Zhang Lianwei (; born 2 May 1965) is a Chinese professional golfer.
Zhang was the first golfer from the People's Republic of China to achieve substantial success on the international professional circuit. In January 2003 he became the first Ch ...
became the first golfer from the
People's Republic of China
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to do so when he overcame then
world number 2 Ernie Els
Theodore Ernest Els (; born 17 October 1969) is a South African professional golfer. A former , he is known as "The Big Easy" due to his imposing physical stature (he stands ) along with his fluid golf swing. Among his more than 70 career victor ...
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.
Winners
See also
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Merlion Masters
The Merlion Masters was a golf tournament that was held in Singapore in 1995 and 1996. It was an event on the Asian Tour.
The Merlion Masters was hosted at ''Laguna National Golf and Country Club'' in 1995, when it was won by South African Nico ...
, a golf tournament on the Asian Tour played in Singapore in 1995 and 1996.
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Rolex Masters, a golf tournament played in Singapore from 1973 to 1998.
Notes
References
External links
Coverage on the European Tour's official site
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Former European Tour events
Former Asian Tour events
Golf tournaments in Singapore
Recurring sporting events established in 2001
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2007
2001 establishments in Singapore
2007 disestablishments in Singapore
Defunct sports competitions in Singapore