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Clariden Leu Singapore Masters
Tournament information
LocationSingapore
Established2001
Course(s)Laguna National Golf and Country Club
Par72
Length7,206 yards (6,589 m)
Tour(s)European Tour
Asian Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund1,000,000
Month playedFebruary
Final year2007
Tournament record score
Aggregate263 Vijay Singh (2001)
To par−21 as above
Final champion
China Liang Wenchong
Location map
Laguna National G&CC is located in Singapore
Laguna National G&CC
Laguna National G&CC
Location in Singapore

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 Lianwei 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

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Year Tours[a] Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Singapore Masters
2008 ASA, EUR Cancelled due to lack of sponsorship
Clariden Leu Singapore Masters
2007 ASA, EUR China Liang Wenchong 277 −11 Playoff Malaysia Iain Steel
OSIM Singapore Masters
2006 ASA, EUR Singapore Mardan Mamat 276 −12 1 stroke England Nick Dougherty
Caltex Masters presented by Carlsberg
2005 ASA, EUR England Nick Dougherty 270 −18 5 strokes Netherlands Maarten Lafeber
Scotland Colin Montgomerie
2004 ASA, EUR Scotland Colin Montgomerie 272 −16 3 strokes United States Gregory Hanrahan
2003 ASA, EUR China Zhang Lianwei 278 −10 1 stroke South Africa Ernie Els
Caltex Singapore Masters
2002 ASA, EUR India Arjun Atwal 274 −14 5 strokes Australia Richard Green
2001 ASA, EUR Fiji Vijay Singh 263 −21 2 strokes England Warren Bennett

See also

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  • Merlion Masters, a golf tournament on the Asian Tour played in Singapore in 1995 and 1996.
  • Rolex Masters, a golf tournament played in Singapore from 1973 to 1998.

Notes

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  1. ^ ASA − Asian Tour; EUR − European Tour.

References

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  1. ^ "Singapore Masters cancelled". Irish Examiner. 10 January 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
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