Tournament information | |
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Location | Sabah, Malaysia |
Established | 1982 |
Course(s) | Sutera Harbour Golf and Country Club |
Par | 71 |
Length | 6,932 yards (6,339 m) |
Tour(s) | Asian Tour PGA Tour of Australasia Asian Development Tour Asia Golf Circuit ASEAN PGA Tour |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | US$300,000 |
Month played | November |
Final year | 2019 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 267 Robert Huxtable (1999) |
To par | −21 as above |
Final champion | |
Pavit Tangkamolprasert | |
Location Map | |
Location in Malaysia |
The Sabah Masters was a professional golf tournament that was held annually in Sabah, Malaysia.
First held in the 1982 as part of the Malaysian PGA circuit, [1] the Sabah Masters has formed part of several higher level professional tours. After a sanctioning arrangement with the PGA Tour of Australasia [2] fell through and resulted in no tournament in 1993, the Sabah Masters was an event on the Asia Golf Circuit schedule in 1994 and 1995 before switching to the then fledgling Asian PGA Tour between 1996 and 1999.
After the 1999 tournament, the Sabah Masters was not held again until 2011 when was revived as a fixture on the ASEAN PGA Tour; [3] in 2014 it became the season ending tour championship, with the season promoted as the "Road to Sabah Masters". [4] After a 20 year hiatus from the major tours, it returned as an event on the Asian Tour calendar in 2019. [5]
Sabah Golf and Country Club played host to the Sabah Masters until 1998 when the Asian PGA decided to inaugurate a rotation policy, with Shan Shui Golf and Country Club hosting that year. [6] Sutera Harbour Golf and Country hosted the tournament in 1999, and has remained as the venue for every renewal since then.
Year | Tour(s) [lower-alpha 1] | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Venue | Ref. |
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Sabah Masters | ||||||||
2019 | ASA | Pavit Tangkamolprasert | 271 | −13 | Playoff | David Gleeson Phachara Khongwatmai Aman Raj | Sutera Harbour | [7] |
2017–18: No tournament | ||||||||
Warisan Harta Sabah Masters | ||||||||
2016 | ADT, ASEAN | Namchok Tantipokhakul | 277 | −11 | 2 strokes | Casey O'Toole | Sutera Harbour | [8] |
Sabah Masters | ||||||||
2015 | ASEAN | Mardan Mamat | 274 | −10 | 4 strokes | Danny Chia Arie Irawan | Sutera Harbour | [9] |
2014 | ASEAN | Wisut Artjanawat (2) | 276 | −8 | 2 strokes | Sattaya Supupramai Michael Tran | Sutera Harbour | [10] |
2013 | ASEAN | Antonio Lascuña | 273 | −11 | Playoff [lower-alpha 2] | Mardan Mamat | Sutera Harbour | [11] |
2012: No tournament due to rescheduling from November to January | ||||||||
2011 | ASEAN | Wisut Artjanawat | 278 | −2 | 1 stroke | Anthony Fernando Nicholas Fung | Sutera Harbour | [12] |
2000–2010: No tournament | [3] | |||||||
1999 | ASA | Robert Huxtable | 267 | −21 | 6 strokes | Thongchai Jaidee | Sutera Harbour | [7] |
1998 | ASA | Simon Yates | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | Des Terblanche | Shan Shui | [7] |
1997 | ASA | Des Terblanche | 281 | −7 | Playoff [lower-alpha 3] | Thammanoon Sriroj | Sabah | [7] [13] |
1996 | ASA | Thaworn Wiratchant | 282 | −6 | 2 strokes | Lin Chih-chen Jeff Wagner | Sabah | [7] |
1995 | AGC | Brandt Jobe | 280 | −8 | 3 strokes | Periasamy Gunasegaran | Sabah | [7] |
1994 | AGC | Craig McClellan | 284 | −4 | Playoff | Kyi Hla Han | Sabah | [7] |
1993 | ANZ | Cancelled | [2] | |||||
1992 | Sufian Tan | 286 | −2 | 3 strokes | Lin Keng-chi Stuart Thomson | Sabah | [14] | |
1991 | Nandasena Perera | Sabah | [7] | |||||
1990: No tournament | ||||||||
1989 | Frankie Miñoza | 278 | −10 | 7 strokes | Eddy Bagtas N. Ravi Chandran | Sabah | [15] | |
1988 | Jeff Senior | 283 | −5 | 10 strokes | Marimuthu Ramayah | Sabah | [16] | |
1987 | Chen Liang-hsi | 284 | −4 | 5 strokes | Kyi Hla Han | Sabah | [17] | |
1986 | Mario Siodina | Sabah | [18] | |||||
1985 | Eleuterio Nival | Sabah | ||||||
1984 | Paterno Braza | 291 | 1 stroke | Hung Weng-neng | Sabah | [19] | ||
1983 | Sabah | |||||||
1982 | Archin Sopon | 290 | +2 | Playoff [lower-alpha 4] | Mario Siodina | Sabah | [20] |
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