Philippine Open (golf)
The Philippine Open is one of the world's longest running men's golf tournaments. First held in 1913, it is also Asia's oldest golf tournament and Asia's oldest national golf open. The most distinguished golfer who has won the tournament is five times British Open champion Peter Thomson of Australia.
The event has been held in a variety of different golf courses around the Philippines and has been an official money event on the Asian Tour since 1994. 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.
Winners
Year | Venue | Champion | Country | Winning Score |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Luisita Golf Club | Miguel Tabuena | Philippines | 202 (−14) rain shortened to 54 holes[1] |
2014 | Wack Wack G&CC | Marcus Both | Australia | 282 (−6) |
2013 | No tournament | |||
2012 | Wack Wack G&CC | Mardan Mamat | Singapore | 280 (−8) |
2011 | Wack Wack G&CC | Berry Henson | United States | 283 (−5) |
2010 | Valley Golf & Country Club | Artemio Murakami | Philippines | 277 (−11) |
2009 | Mount Malarayat G&CC | Elmer Salvador | Philippines | 271 (−17) |
2008 | Wack Wack G&CC | Angelo Que | Philippines | 283 (−5) |
2007 | Wack Wack G&CC | Frankie Miñoza | Philippines | 278 (−10) |
2006 | Wack Wack G&CC | Scott Strange | Australia | 280 (−8) |
2005 | Mount Malayarat G&CC | Adam Le Vesconte | Australia | 272 (−12) |
2004 | Riviera G&CC | Edward Michaels | United States | 282 (−2) |
2003 | No tournament | |||
2002 | Wack Wack G&CC | Rick Gibson | Canada | |
2001 | Wack Wack G&CC | Felix Casas | Philippines | |
2000 | Riviera G&CC | Gerald Rosales | Philippines | |
1999 | Manila Southwoods G&CC | Anthony Kang | South Korea | 273 |
1998 | Riviera G&CC | Frankie Miñoza | Philippines | |
1997 | Kevin Wentworth | United States | 259 | |
1996 | Manila Southwoods G&CC | Rob Whitlock | Australia | 278 |
1995 | Apo Golf and Country Club | Carlos Espinosa | Mexico | 282 |
1994 | Manila Southwoods G&CC | Carlos Franco | Paraguay | 280 |
1993 | Manila Southwoods G&CC | Yeh Chang-Ting | Taiwan | |
1992 | Puerto Azul GC[2] | Wang Ter-chang | Taiwan | |
1991 | Valley Golf & Country Club | Dennis Paulson | United States | |
1990 | Puerto Azul GC | Robert Pactolerin | Philippines | |
1989 | Emlyn Aubrey | United States | ||
1988 | Hsieh Chin Seng | Taiwan | ||
1987 | Wack Wack G & CC | Brian Tennyson | United States | |
1986 | Villamor Golf Club | Mario Manubay | Philippines | 280 (−8) |
1985 | Mark Aebli | United States | ||
1984 | Rudy Labares | Philippines | ||
1983 | Valley Golf & Country Club | Lu Hsi-chuen | Taiwan | |
1982 | Hsieh Min-Nan | Taiwan | ||
1981 | Valley Golf & Country Club | Tom Sieckmann | United States | |
1980 | Wack Wack G&CC | Lu Hsi-chuen | Taiwan | |
1979 | Wack Wack G&CC | Ben Arda | Philippines | |
1978 | Wack Wack G&CC | Lu Liang-Huan | Taiwan | |
1977 | Wack Wack G&CC | Hsieh Yung-yo | Taiwan | |
1976 | Wack Wack G&CC | Qiuntin Mancao | Philippines | |
1975 | Valley Golf & Country Club | Kuo Chie-Hsiung | Taiwan | |
1974 | Wack Wack G&CC | Lu Liang-Huan | Taiwan | |
1973 | Wack Wack G&CC | King Seung Hak | South Korea | |
1972 | Wack Wack G&CC | Hideyo Sugimoto | Japan | |
1971 | Wack Wack G&CC | Chen Chieng Chung | Taiwan | |
1970 | Wack Wack G&CC | Hsieh Yung-yo | Taiwan | |
1969 | Wack Wack G&CC | Haruo Yasuda | Japan | |
1968 | Wack Wack G&CC | Hsu Chi San | Taiwan | |
1967 | Wack Wack G&CC | Hsu Sheng-san (a) | Taiwan | |
1966 | Wack Wack G&CC | Luis Silverio (a) | Philippines | |
1965 | Wack Wack G&CC | Lu Liang-Huan | Taiwan | |
1964 | Wack Wack G&CC | Peter Thomson | Australia | |
1963 | Wack Wack G&CC | Ben Arda | Philippines | |
1962 | Wack Wack G&CC | Celestino Tugot | Philippines | |
1961 | Wack Wack G&CC | Ben Arda | Philippines | |
1960 | Wack Wack G&CC | Frank Phillips | Australia | |
1959 | Bruce Crampton | Australia | ||
1958 | Celestino Tugot | Philippines | ||
1957 | Celestino Tugot | Philippines | ||
1956 | Celestino Tugot | Philippines | ||
1955 | Celestino Tugot | Philippines | ||
1954 | Larry Montes | Philippines | ||
1953 | Larry Montes | Philippines | ||
1952 | Lloyd Mangrum | United States | ||
1951 | Larry Montes | Philippines | ||
1950 | Ed Oliver | United States | ||
1949 | Celestino Tugot | Philippines | ||
1948 | Larry Montes | Philippines | ||
1945-47 | No tournament | |||
1944 | Larry Montes | Philippines | ||
1943 | Larry Montes | Philippines | ||
1942 | Larry Montes | Philippines | ||
1941 | Larry Montes | Philippines | ||
1940 | Harold "Jug" McSpaden | United States | ||
1939 | Norman Von Nida | Australia | ||
1938 | Norman Von Nida | Australia | ||
1937 | Larry Montes | Philippines | ||
1936 | Larry Montes | Philippines | ||
1935 | Guillermo A. Navaja | Philippines | ||
1934 | Manila GC | Casiano Decena | Philippines | |
1933 | Manila GC | Sidney Baxter | United States | |
1932 | Manila GC | Larry Montes | Philippines | |
1930-31 | No tournament | |||
1929 | Manila GC | Larry Montes | Philippines | |
1928 | Manila GC | J.S. Moore (a) | United States | |
1927 | Manila GC | J.R.H. Mason (a) | United States | |
1926 | Manila GC | E.L. Benedict (a) | United States | |
1925 | Manila GC | W.J. Jameson (a) | United States | |
1924 | Manila GC | G.M. Ivory (a) | United States | |
1923 | Manila GC | E.A. Noyes (a) | United States | |
1922 | Manila GC | Walter Z. Smith (a) | United States | |
1921 | Manila GC | J.R.H. Mason (a) | United States | |
1920 | Manila GC | Ian Collier Trotter MacGregor (a) | Scotland | |
1919 | Manila GC | Ian Collier Trotter MacGregor (a) | Scotland | |
1918 | Manila GC | J.R.H. Mason (a) | United States | |
1917 | Manila GC | W. Young (a) | United States | |
1916 | Manila GC | Johnny Grieve (a) | United States | |
1915 | Manila GC | W.J. Adams (a) | United States | |
1914 | Manila GC | J.R.H. Mason (a) | United States | |
1913 | Manila GC | J.R.H. Mason (a) | United States |
Multiple winners
The players who have won the Philippine Open more than once are the following:
- 12 wins
- Larry Montes (1929, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1941-1944, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1954)
- 6 wins
- Celestino Tugot (1949, 1955-1958, 1962)
- 5 wins
- J.R.H. Mason (a) (1913, 1914, 1918, 1921, 1927)
- 3 wins
- Lu Liang-Huan (1965, 1974, 1978)
- Ben Arda (1961, 1963, 1979)
- 2 wins
- Ian Collier Trotter MacGregor (a) (1919, 1920)
- Norman Von Nida (1938, 1939)
- Hsieh Yung-yo (1970, 1977)
- Lu Hsi-chuen (1980, 1983)
- Frankie Miñoza (1998, 2007)
References
- ↑ http://www.asiantour.com/2015/12/20/tabuena-seals-emphatic-win-philippineopen/
- ↑ Tournament Director