Asian Matchplay Championship Explained

Asian Matchplay Championship
Location:Southeast Asia
Establishment:1996
Course:Mission Hills Golf Club
Tour:Asian Tour
Format:Match play
Month Played:December
Final Year:1998
Score:3 and 1 Jeev Milkha Singh (1996)
Final Champion: Gerry Norquist
Coordinates:22.786°N 114.007°W
Map:China#Guangdong
Map Label:Mission Hills GC
Map Relief:yes
Map Size:200

The Asian Matchplay Championship was a professional match play golf tournament. It was the season ending event in each of the first four seasons of the Omega Tour, now known as the Asian Tour. It also included a pairs competition, the Hugo Boss Foursomes, played using the alternate shot format.[1]

It was hosted at a different venue every season. After the inaugural event, which was played in January, it was held in December each season. The tournament was sponsored by Volvo between 1996 and 1998, when it was titled as the Volvo Asian Matchplay.

The limited field was predominantly made up of winners of the major tournaments on the Omega Tour and leading players from the Order of Merit that season, with invitations also issued to the leading players from the Asia Golf Circuit, Japan Golf Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia and Southern Africa Tour.[1]

Winners

YearWinnerScoreRunner-upVenueRef.
Volvo Asian Matchplay
2 and 1 [2]
Concession Mimosa [3]
1996
(Dec)
1 up Emeralda [4]
Asian Matchplay Championship
1996
(Jan)
3 and 1 St. Elena [5] [6]

Notes and References

  1. News: US$265,000 tourney marks end of season . Al . Campbell . South China Morning Post . 9 December 1998 . 27 February 2020.
  2. News: For the Record . The Times . 14 December 1998 . 35 . The Times Digital Archive . 27 February 2020.
  3. News: No pear tree for Partridge . The Sydney Morning Herald . Sydney, New South Wales, Australia . 21 December 1997 . 77 . Newspapers.com . 27 February 2020.
  4. News: Zhang battles to gruelling victory . The Straits Times . Singapore . 22 December 1996 . 27 . National Library Board . 27 February 2020.
  5. News: Jeev collects . The Straits Times . Singapore . 22 January 1996 . 36 . National Library Board . 27 February 2020.
  6. News: Singh wins Omega golf over Thai . Manila Standard . 22 January 1996 . 20 . Google News Archive . 27 February 2020.