Malaysian Open (golf) should not be confused with Maybank Championship.
IRS Prima Malaysian Open | |
Location: | Seri Kembangan, Malaysia |
Establishment: | 1962 |
Course: | The Mines Resort & Golf Club |
Par: | 72 |
Yardage: | 7016yd |
Tour: | European Tour Asian Tour Asia Golf Circuit |
Format: | Stroke play |
Month Played: | February |
Aggregate: | 260 Arjun Atwal (2003) |
To-Par: | −24 as above |
Current Champion: | David Puig |
Map: | Malaysia |
Map Label: | The Mines Resort & GC |
Map Relief: | Yes |
Map Size: | 240 |
The Malaysian Open is a men's professional golf tournament that is currently played on the Asian Tour, and was formerly played on the European Tour.
Notable past winners include world number one golfers Vijay Singh and Lee Westwood (both players winning the event on two occasions). Other notable winners include 17-year-old Italian Matteo Manassero in 2011 as well as former Open champion Louis Oosthuizen the following year. PGA Tour winners including Harold Henning, Jeff Maggert, Glen Day, Steve Flesch, Arjun Atwal and Noh Seung-yul have also won the event. Since its inauguration there has never been a Malaysian winner.
The tournament was inaugurated in 1962 as the Malayan Open, and was one of the events on the first season of the Far East Circuit that year. In 1999, it joined the Asian Tour and also became part of the European Tour's expansion into Asia as a jointly sanctioned event.
The six events from 2010 to 2015 were held at the Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club.[1] The 2015 champion was India's Anirban Lahiri. This was his first ever victory on the European Tour and it was his sixth win on the Asian Tour.
The tournament returned in 2020 after a four year hiatus. It was played as a sole-sanctioned Asian Tour event at Kota Permai Golf & Country Club. The prize fund was .[2] Trevor Simsby took the title in a playoff over Andrew Dodt and Jarin Todd. It was the final event played before the 2020–21–22 Asian Tour season was heavily disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Year | Tour(s) | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Venue | Ref. | |
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IRS Prima Malaysian Open | |||||||||
2024 | 261 | −23 | 2 strokes | The Mines | |||||
align=center colspan=9 | 2021–2023: No tournament | ||||||||
Bandar Malaysia Open | |||||||||
2020 | 203 | −13 | Playoff | Kota Permai | |||||
align=center colspan=9 | 2016–2019: No tournament | ||||||||
Maybank Malaysian Open | |||||||||
2015 | 272 | −16 | 1 stroke | ||||||
2014 | Lee Westwood (2) | 270 | −18 | 7 strokes | Kuala Lumpur | ||||
2013 | 203 | −13 | 1 stroke | Kuala Lumpur | |||||
2012 | 271 | −17 | 3 strokes | Kuala Lumpur | |||||
2011 | 272 | −16 | 1 stroke | Kuala Lumpur | |||||
2010 | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | Kuala Lumpur | |||||
2009 | 271 | −17 | 1 stroke | ||||||
2008 | Arjun Atwal (2) | 270 | −18 | Playoff | Kota Permai | ||||
2007 | 280 | −8 | 1 stroke | Saujana | |||||
2006 | 197 | −19 | 1 stroke | Kuala Lumpur | |||||
Carlsberg Malaysian Open | |||||||||
2005 | Thongchai Jaidee (2) | 267 | −21 | 3 strokes | Saujana | ||||
2004 | 274 | −14 | 2 strokes | Saujana | |||||
2003 | 260 | −24 | 4 strokes | ||||||
2002 | 267 | −17 | Playoff | ||||||
2001 | Vijay Singh (2) | 274 | −14 | Playoff | Saujana | ||||
Benson & Hedges Malaysian Open | |||||||||
2000 | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | ||||||
1999 | Gerry Norquist (2) | 280 | −8 | 3 strokes | Saujana | ||||
1998 | 278 | −10 | Playoff | Saujana | [3] | ||||
1997 | 274 | −14 | 2 strokes | Saujana | [4] | ||||
1996 | 282 | −6 | Playoff | Templer Park | [5] | ||||
1995 | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Templer Park | [6] | ||||
1994 | 279 | −9 | Playoff | Royal Selangor | [7] | ||||
1993 | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Royal Selangor | |||||
1992 | 275 | −9 | 3 strokes | Bukit Jambul | [8] | ||||
1991 | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | [9] | |||||
1990 | 273 | −15 | 4 strokes | Royal Perak | [10] | ||||
1989 | 283 | −5 | 5 strokes | Ayer Keroh | [11] | ||||
1988 | 288 | E | 1 stroke | Saujana | [12] | ||||
1987 | Terry Gale (3) | 280 | −8 | Playoff | Subang National | [13] | |||
1986 | Stewart Ginn (2) | 276 | −8 | 1 stroke | Royal Selangor | [14] | |||
1985 | Terry Gale (2) | 270 | −14 | 7 strokes | Royal Selangor | [15] | |||
1984 | 275 | −9 | 2 strokes | Royal Selangor | [16] | ||||
1983 | 279 | −9 | 2 strokes | Subang National | [17] | ||||
Malaysian Open | |||||||||
1982 | 208 | −5 | Playoff | Royal Selangor | [18] | ||||
1981 | Lu Hsi-chuen (2) | 276 | −9 | 1 stroke | Royal Selangor | [19] [20] | |||
1980 | 270 | −15 | 9 strokes | Royal Selangor | [21] | ||||
1979 | 277 | −11 | 7 strokes | Royal Selangor | [22] | ||||
1978 | 276 | −12 | 6 strokes | Royal Selangor | [23] | ||||
1977 | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Royal Selangor | [24] | ||||
1976 | 279 | −9 | Playoff | Royal Selangor | [25] | ||||
1975 | Graham Marsh (2) | 276 | −12 | 2 strokes | Royal Selangor | [26] | |||
1974 | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | Perak Turf Club | [27] | ||||
1973 | 277 | −11 | 2 strokes | Royal Selangor | [28] | ||||
1972 | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Marty Bohen Walter Godfrey Sukree Onsham | Royal Selangor | [29] | |||
1971 | Takaaki Kono (2) | 269 | −19 | 2 strokes | Royal Selangor | [30] | |||
1970 | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | Royal Selangor | [31] | ||||
1969 | 280 | −8 | 1 stroke | Royal Selangor | [32] | ||||
1968 | 271 | −17 | 4 strokes | Royal Selangor | [33] | ||||
1967 | 286 | −2 | 1 stroke | Royal Selangor | [34] | ||||
Malayan Open | |||||||||
1966 | 278 | −10 | 3 strokes | Royal Selangor | [35] | ||||
1965 | Tomoo Ishii (2) | 282 | −10 | 2 strokes | Royal Selangor | [36] | |||
1964 | 282 | −14 | 1 stroke | Royal Selangor | [37] | ||||
1963 | 276 | −20 | 4 strokes | Royal Selangor | [38] | ||||
1962 | 276 | −20 | 1 stroke | Royal Selangor | [39] |