A Mouth-Watering Month of Golf

October will highlight a truly momentous month for professional golf in Asia with the staging of three mega PGA TOUR tournaments in Malaysia, South Korea and China offering a super cool US$26 million in total prize money

Korea’s newest star Si Woo Kim

The three-tournament extravaganza concludes with Asia’s lone and prized World Golf Championships showpiece, the US$9.75 million WGC-HSBC Champions at Sheshan International Golf Club in Shanghai where Japan’s rising son Matsuyama will defend his title against a stellar field which includes top-ranked Johnson, winner of the tournament in 2013.

Against a backdrop of global stars headlining the exciting stretch of events which form the early 2017-18 PGA TOUR Fall schedule, the Asian Tour’s leading golfers such as S.S.P. Chawrasia, Scott Hend and young talent Phachara Khongwatmai, will have every opportunity to shine under the international spotlight.

The CIMB Classic, sanctioned with the Asian Tour, will include the leading ten players from the region’s Order of Merit in addition to two Malaysians, while the CJ CUP could see up to twenty Korean or Korean descent golfers going head-to-head with the game’s top stars as it lives up to the tournament’s tagline of “Bridge to Realization”. A victory at Jeju island will lead to a coveted PGA TOUR card and a world of earning and playing opportunities.

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Written by Chuah Choo Chiang

Photography by AFP

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