The Asian Senior Masters @ Malaysia 2007 will be staged at the Palm Garden Golf Club, Putrajaya, Malaysia from 7th to 9th September 2007.
This year, the Asian Seniors Tour (AST) is pleased to welcome back Giant, AIG S.E. Asia and to introduce Citi, three of our main partners of this much anticipated golf tournament, a showdown which will see 120 professional senior golfers from over 25 countries, including some of the best golfers from the region, doing battle to be this year’s Asian Senior Masters @ Malaysia 2007 Champion and competing for prize money of US$ 100,000, the third highest purse offered in Malaysia.
This year’s tournament will incorporate seven Asian Senior Masters Pro-Am events to be staged from Sunday 2nd to Thursday 6th September, and both the Amateur Junior and Open Invitational Pro-Am Qualifier events taking place on Monday 3rd prior to the three-day ASM Professional Tournament, which is to be staged from Friday 7th to Sunday 9th September.
Asian Senior Masters events are the only professional golf tournaments which provide leading amateur golfers from Malaysia, Singapore and the Asian region, who succeed in being placed in the top ten of a Pro-Am event, with the unique opportunity to play for the ASM Amateur Championship Semi-finals alongside three Asian Senior Tour PGA Professional golfers who will be competing in the first two days of the AIA Singapore Asian Senior Masters professional tournament.
We would like to send out a very warm welcome to all our regular amateur participants, supporting sponsors, the media, and a very special welcome and thank you to all the ASM @ Malaysia main partners Giant, AIG, American International Assurance, Citi, IndoChine and 100plus.
The Asian Seniors Tour, now in its fifth year, will be staging the following exciting international senior professional golf tournaments in the Autumn of 2007:
2007 Asian Senior Masters @ Malaysia
at Palm Garden Golf Club, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2-9 September www.asm-malaysia.com
AIA Singapore Asian Senior Masters 2007
at Jurong Country Club, Singapore
10-16 September 2007 www.asm-singapore.com
2007 African Senior Masters @ Kenya
at Windsor Golf & Country Club, Nairobi, Kenya
5-11 November 2007 www.asm-kenya.com
Recent AST tour events include the 2006 ASM @ Malaysia held at Palm Garden Golf Club, 14-16 November 2006 (www.asm-malaysia.com), at which the 2005 ASM @ Malaysia defending champion, Malaysia- based Australian, Stewart Ginn, retained his title at the 2006 ASM @ Malaysia with a play-off victory over the 2006 ASM @ Singapore Champion, Thailand’s Amphon Maneerat.
We look forward to seeing the two-time defending champion, Stewart Ginn, who is currently ranked No. 3 on the European Seniors Tour, return to defend his title at the 2007 ASM @ Malaysia.
Previous Asian Tour, PGA Tour and Asian Seniors Tour winners, as well as senior legends invited and expected to be in action at the Asian Senior Masters @ Malaysia 2007, will include many notable players from over 25 counties, including those listed below:
Chinese Taipei
Hsieh Min Nan (1972 World Cup)
Chung Chun Hsing (2006 Asian Senior Masters @ Phuket)
Australia
Brian Jones (1978 Malaysian Open)
Randall Vines (1968 Thailand Open)
John Clifford (2003 Australian Seniors Championship)
Ross Metherell (1999 Belfry PGA Seniors Championship)
Mike Ferguson (2003 Malaysian Seniors Open Champion)
Malaysia M. Ramayah (1994 Rolex Masters)
New Zealand
Walter Godfrey (1972 Hong Kong Open)
Philippines
Eleuterio Nival (1974 Singapore Open)
Singapore
Lim Swe Chew (1977 Rolex Masters)
Thailand
Somsak Srisa-Nga (1988 Singapore PGA Championship)
Amphon Maneerat (2006 ASM @ Singapore)
A unique feature of ASM tournaments is that the leading amateurs from throughout the region have the opportunity to play alongside senior professional golfers in the various Pro-Am events where the best gross scoring amateurs qualify to contest the Amateur Semi-finals staged in conjunction with the first two days of the ASM professional event, culminating in the amateur finals staged on the final day, with the leading six amateur players teeing-off prior to the final round of the ASM professional event.
2006 ASM @ Malaysia Amateur Champion was Malaysia’s Champion lylia Jamil.
2005 ASM Malaysia Amateur Champion was Singapore’s leading amateur, Feldman Tan.
The six amateur finalists from the 2007 ASM @ Malaysia will receive automatic invitations to contest the AIA Singapore ASM 2007 Amateur Semi-finals to be staged the following week during the inaugural AIA Singapore ASM 2007 @ Jurong Country Club from 10-16 September 2007.
The first leg of the ASM Media Masters staged at the AIA Singapore ASM 2007 Press Conference saw team Malaysia, captained by KP Waran, along with Leslie Lopez and Charles Peters beating their Singapore compatriots, Patrick Daniel, Godfrey Roberts, James Yip, Alan Teo and Edwin Koh to emerge victors in the first leg (see: www.asm-singapore.com/newsdetails1.asp?NewsID=1147).
In the second and third legs, to be staged on 5th and 8th September during the 2007 ASM @ Malaysia, the three additional team members joining KP, Lopez & Peters as the six-person Malaysia Media team contesting the ASM @ Malaysia leg, and the fourth and final leg at the AIA Singapore ASM 2007, will need to qualify by way of the 2007 ASM @ Malaysia Pro-Am events.
For further enquires please contact:
Matthew Murray matthew@asm-singapore.com or Ms. Evelyn Lee evelyn@asm-singapore.com
Tournament Director General Manager
Tel: +65 6469 9760; Fax: +65 6469 9412 Tel: +65 6262 4843
Mobile: +65 9639 9020
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