The Asian Tour is set to enjoy a gripping finish to its season next month after announcing it will stage a new event, The Singapore International ‒ the week before the season-ending SMBC Singapore Open.
The $1million tournament will be played on the re-developed championship Tampines Course at Tanah Merah Country Club from January 13-16, and will mark the start of an exciting Singapore swing of events that will bring the 2020-21 season to a thrilling conclusion.
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The cream of the Tour’s membership will compete as so much is at stake, including the Asian Tour Order of Merit title and final placings on the Merit list.
The Tour resumed play at the end of November with back-to-back events in Phuket – after a 20-month hiatus caused by COVID-19, and attention will now turn to what will be a unique and ground-breaking end to the season in the Lion City.
“This will certainly be an unprecedented and memorable end to the season for the Asian Tour,” said Cho Minn Thant, Commissioner & CEO, Asian Tour.
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“The Tour is delighted to be able to launch a new event, The Singapore International, which will play such a key role in helping to bring down the curtain on our season while also adding an exciting new international event to Singapore’s sporting calendar.”
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The 2020-21 season, which was combined and will end in 2022 because of the pandemic, has seen six events played on Tour so far. Australian Wade Ormsby won the very first of those, the Hong Kong Open, in January last year and has led the Merit list since then.
As well as Ormsby, other leading players competing will be Thailand’s Jazz Janewattananond and Phachara Khongwatmai, Malaysian Gavin Green, Shubhankar Sharma from India and Joohyung Kim from Korea.
All of Singapore’s top players will compete including Gregory Foo, Abdul Hadi, Koh Dengshan, Jesse Yap and Choo Tze Huang.
An extra incentive for competitors is that the top-30 from the final Merit list will be exempt for the $5million Saudi International powered by SoftBank Advisers – which starts in February and is the 2022 season opener.
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