The TCL Classic was a men's
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tournament
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which was played on a
course designed by American
Robert Trent Jones, Jr. at
Yalong Bay Golf Club in
Sanya
Sanya (; also spelled Samah) is the southernmost city on Hainan Island, and one of the four prefecture-level cities of Hainan Province in South China.
According to the 2020 census, the total population of Sanya was 1,031,396 inhabitants, li ...
on
Hainan Island
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,
People's Republic of China
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four times between 2002 and 2007. The first tournament was held at Haiyi Golf Club in Dongguan on Guangdong, China, in 2002. It was the first tournament sponsored by the Chinese company
TCL Corporation
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.
The tournament was first played in
2002, when, as an event sanctioned by the
Asian Tour
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, it was won by
Scotsman
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Colin Montgomerie
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. The event was not held in 2003 or 2004 but was reintroduced in
2005 with co-sanctioning from the
European Tour
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consistent with the latter's expansion to China, in which more Tour events are played than in any other country save the
United Kingdom
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. In
2007, the tournament offered a
purse of
$1,000,000, which fund was one of the smallest amongst those of European Tour events. The TCL Classic was dropped from the 2008 schedule.
Winners
Notes
External links
Coverage on the European Tour's official site
Former Asian Tour events
Former European Tour events
Golf tournaments in China
Sport in Hainan
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