Tournament information | |
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Location | Santa Rosa, Laguna, Philippines |
Established | 1913 |
Course(s) | The Country Club |
Par | 72 |
Length | 7,650 yards (7,000 m) |
Tour(s) | Asian Tour Asia Golf Circuit OneAsia Tour Philippine Golf Tour PGT Asia |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | US$500,000 |
Month played | April |
Final year | 2019 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 259 Kevin Wentworth (1997) |
To par | −17 Elmer Salvador (2009) |
Final champion | |
Clyde Mondilla | |
Location map | |
Location in the Philippines |
The Philippine Open was one of the world's longest-running men's golf tournaments. First held in 1913, it is also Asia's oldest golf tournament.
The event was held in a variety of different golf courses around the Philippines and was an official money event on the Asian Tour from 1999 to 2015, having previously been a founding tournament on the Asia Golf Circuit. In March 2006 the National Golf Association of the Philippines granted all marketing rights for the tournament from 2006 to 2010 to the Asian Tour, which announced an aspiration to increase the prize fund from the 2006 level of US$200,000 to $1 million. In 2014, the prize fund was $300,000.
The 1967 event included a full-field of 160 players. [1]
The following venues have been used since the founding of the Philippine Open in 1913.
Venue | Location | First | Last | Times |
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Manila Golf and Country Club | Manila | 1913 | 1934 | 20 |
Iloilo Golf and Country Club | Iloilo | 1935 | 1959 | 24 |
Wack Wack Golf and Country Club | Mandaluyong | 1956 | 2014 | 33 |
Valley Golf and Country Club | Rizal | 1975 | 2010 | 5 |
Villamor Golf Club | Manila | 1984 | 1986 | 2 |
Puerto Azul Golf and Country Club | Luzon | 1989 | 1992 | 3 |
Manila Southwoods Golf and Country Club | Manila | 1993 | 1999 | 4 |
Apo Golf and Country Club | Davao | 1995 | 1995 | 1 |
Camp John Hay Golf Club | Baguio | 1997 | 1997 | 1 |
Riviera Golf and Country Club | Cavite | 1998 | 2000 | 3 |
Mount Malarayat Golf and Country Club | Batangas | 2005 | 2009 | 2 |
Luisita Golf and Country Club | Tarlac | 2015 | 2015 | 1 |
The Country Club | Laguna | 2017 | 2019 | 3 |
The players who have won the Philippine Open more than once are the following:
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