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Omega PGA Championship
Tournament information
LocationChina
Established1996
Tour(s)Asian Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund$500,000
Month playedDecember
Final year1999
Tournament record score
Aggregate263 Kang Wook-soon (1998)
Final champion
United States Fran Quinn

The Omega PGA Championship was a professional golf tournament that was held between 1996 and 1999. It was the final stroke play event in each of the first five seasons of the Asian PGA Tour, now known as the Asian Tour, and one of the tours four "majors".[1] It was held twice in 1996, in January and December, to end the 1995 and 1996 seasons.

It was hosted at Clearwater Bay Golf and Country Club in Hong Kong between 1995 and 1998, before moving to Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, China for 1999.

Winners

Year Venue Winner Country Score Margin
of victory
Runner(s)-up Notes
1999 Mission Hills GC Fran Quinn  United States 270 3 strokes Scotland Simon Yates [2]
1998 Clearwater Bay G&CC Kang Wook-soon  South Korea 263 3 strokes Taiwan Hsieh Chin-sheng [3]
1997 Clearwater Bay G&CC Rodrigo Cuello  Philippines 270 1 stroke Taiwan Lu Wen-teh [4]
1996 (Dec) Clearwater Bay G&CC Gerry Norquist  United States 268 1 stroke Australia John Senden
Australia Jeff Wagner
[5]
1996 (Jan) Clearwater Bay G&CC Yeh Chang-ting  Taiwan 271 5 strokes Wales Mark Mouland [6][7]

References

  1. ^ Careem, Nazvi (12 January 1996). "Yeh and Kwek put the wind up rivals". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Back-to-back for Quinn". New Straits Times. Malaysia. 7 December 1998. p. 45. Retrieved 28 February 2020 – via Google News Archive.
  3. ^ "World at a glance – Golf". New Straits Times. Malaysia. 13 December 1999. p. 41. Retrieved 28 February 2020 – via Google News Archive.
  4. ^ "Cuello wins $.5-M Omega Tour in HK". Manila Standard. Philippines. 15 December 1997. p. 12. Retrieved 28 February 2020 – via Google News Archive.
  5. ^ "Golf: Omega PGA Championship". The Straits Times. Singapore. 16 December 1996. p. 39. Retrieved 28 February 2020 – via National Library Board.
  6. ^ "Taiwan's Yeh tops Omega Tour". Business Times. Singapore. 17 January 1996. p. 12. Retrieved 28 February 2020 – via National Library Board.
  7. ^ "Taiwanese Yeh bags crown by five strokes". The Straits Times. Singapore. 15 January 1996. p. 36. Retrieved 28 February 2020 – via National Library Board.