Philippine Open (golf)

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.

Philippine Open

Tournament information
Location	Philippines
Established	1913
Course(s)	The Country Club, Santa Rosa, Laguna
Par	72
Tour(s)	Asian Tour (1999–2015) Asia Golf Circuit (1962–1998)
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	US$500,000
Month played	April
Current champion
Clyde Mondilla

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]

Winners

Year	Tour	Venue	Champion	Country	Winning score	Ref
2019		The Country Club	Clyde Mondilla	Philippines	290 (+2)	[2]
2018	ONE	The Country Club	Miguel Tabuena	Philippines	289 (+1)
2017		The Country Club	Steve Lewton	England	287 (−1)
2016		No tournament
2015	ASA	Luisita Golf Club	Miguel Tabuena	Philippines	202 (−14)^
2014	ASA	Wack Wack G&CC	Marcus Both	Australia	282 (−6)
2013		No tournament
2012	ASA	Wack Wack G&CC	Mardan Mamat	Singapore	280 (−8)
2011	ASA	Wack Wack G&CC	Berry Henson	United States	283 (−5)
2010	ASA	Valley Golf & Country Club	Artemio Murakami	Philippines	277 (−11)
2009	ASA	Mount Malarayat G&CC	Elmer Salvador	Philippines	271 (−17)
2008	ASA	Wack Wack G&CC	Angelo Que	Philippines	283 (−5)
2007	ASA	Wack Wack G&CC	Frankie Miñoza	Philippines	278 (−10)
2006	ASA	Wack Wack G&CC	Scott Strange	Australia	280 (−8)
2005	ASA	Mount Malayarat G&CC	Adam Le Vesconte	Australia	272 (−12)
2004	ASA	Riviera G&CC	Edward Michaels	United States	282 (−2)
2003		No tournament
2002	ASA	Wack Wack G&CC	Rick Gibson	Canada	283 (−5)
2001	ASA	Wack Wack G&CC	Felix Casas	Philippines
2000	ASA	Riviera G&CC	Gerald Rosales	Philippines
1999	ASA	Manila Southwoods G&CC	Anthony Kang	South Korea	273
1998	AGC	Riviera G&CC	Frankie Miñoza	Philippines	278	[3]
1997	AGC	Camp John Hay GC	Kevin Wentworth	United States	259 (−13)	[4]
1996	AGC	Manila Southwoods G&CC	Rob Whitlock	Australia	278
1995	AGC	Apo Golf and Country Club	Carlos Espinosa	Mexico	282
1994	AGC	Manila Southwoods G&CC	Carlos Franco	Paraguay	280
1993	AGC	Manila Southwoods G&CC	Yeh Chang-ting	Taiwan	281
1992	AGC	Puerto Azul GC[5]	Wang Ter-chang	Taiwan	289
1991	AGC	Valley Golf & Country Club	Dennis Paulson	United States	281
1990	AGC	Puerto Azul GC	Robert Pactolerin	Philippines	287
1989	AGC	Puerto Azul GC	Emlyn Aubrey	United States	276	[6] [7]
1988	AGC	Wack Wack G & CC	Hsieh Chin-sheng	Taiwan	283	[8]
1987	AGC	Wack Wack G & CC	Brian Tennyson	United States	288	[9]
1986		Villamor Golf Club	Mario Manubay	Philippines	280 (−8)
1985			Mark Aebli	United States	290	[10]
1984			Rudy Labares	Philippines	272	[11]
1983	AGC	Valley Golf & Country Club	Lu Hsi-chuen	Taiwan	277	[12]
1982	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Hsieh Min-Nan	Taiwan	292	[13]
1981	AGC	Valley Golf & Country Club	Tom Sieckmann	United States	287	[14]
1980	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Lu Hsi-chuen	Taiwan	287	[15]
1979	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Ben Arda	Philippines	286	[16]
1978	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Lu Liang-Huan	Taiwan	278	[17]
1977	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Hsieh Yung-yo	Taiwan	281	[18]
1976	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Qiuntin Mancao	Philippines	281	[19]
1975	AGC	Valley Golf & Country Club	Kuo Chie-Hsiung	Taiwan	276	[20]
1974	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Lu Liang-Huan	Taiwan	281	[21]
1973	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Kim Seung Hak	South Korea	289	[22]
1972	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Hideyo Sugimoto	Japan	286	[23] [24]
1971	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Chen Chien Chung	Taiwan	282	[25]
1970	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Hsieh Yung-yo	Taiwan	282	[26]
1969	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Haruo Yasuda	Japan	283	[27]
1968	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Hsu Chi-san	Taiwan	278	[28]
1967	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Hsu Sheng-san (a)	Taiwan	283 (−5)	[29]
1966	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Luis Silverio (a)	Philippines	287	[30]
1965	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Lu Liang-Huan	Taiwan	288	[31]
1964	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Peter Thomson	Australia	285	[32]
1963	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Ben Arda	Philippines	289	[33]
1962	AGC	Wack Wack G&CC	Celestino Tugot	Philippines	284	[34]
1961		Wack Wack G&CC	Ben Arda	Philippines	286
1960		Wack Wack G&CC	Frank Phillips	Australia	291
1959		Iloilo GC	Bruce Crampton	Australia
1958		Iloilo GC	Celestino Tugot	Philippines
1957		Iloilo GC	Celestino Tugot	Philippines
1956		Wack Wack G&CC	Celestino Tugot	Philippines
1955		Iloilo GC	Celestino Tugot	Philippines	284
1954		Iloilo GC	Larry Montes	Philippines
1953		Iloilo GC	Larry Montes	Philippines	281
1952		Iloilo GC	Lloyd Mangrum	United States
1951		Iloilo GC	Larry Montes	Philippines
1950		Iloilo GC	Ed Oliver	United States
1949		Iloilo GC	Celestino Tugot	Philippines
1948		Iloilo GC	Larry Montes	Philippines
1945-47		No tournament
1944		Iloilo GC	Larry Montes	Philippines
1943		Iloilo GC	Larry Montes	Philippines
1942		Iloilo GC	Larry Montes	Philippines
1941		Iloilo GC	Larry Montes	Philippines
1940		Iloilo GC	Harold "Jug" McSpaden	United States	287	[35]
1939		Iloilo GC	Norman Von Nida	Australia	292	[36]
1938		Iloilo GC	Norman Von Nida	Australia		[37]
1937		Iloilo GC	Larry Montes	Philippines
1936		Iloilo GC	Larry Montes	Philippines
1935		Iloilo GC	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

^ rain shortened to 54 holes[38]

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

1. "160 for Philippine open". The Canberra Times. 1967-01-18. p. 33. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
2. "2019 Solaire Philippine Open". PGT Asia.
3. "Scoreboard – Golf – Philippine Open". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. 23 March 1998 – via Newspapers.com.
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5. Tournament Director
6. "First win". The Straits Times. Singapore. 13 February 1989. p. 31. Retrieved 9 April 2020 – via National Library Board.
7. "Scores". The Straits Times. Singapore. 14 February 1989. p. 31. Retrieved 9 April 2020 – via National Library Board.
8. "Hsieh wins by five strokes". The Straits Times. Singapore. 22 February 1988. p. 25. Retrieved 30 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
9. "On foreign fairways". The Straits Times. Singapore. 23 February 1987. p. 22. Retrieved 28 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
10. "American takes Philippine Open". Singapore Monitor. Singapore. 25 February 1985. p. 17. Retrieved 22 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
11. "It's Norman"s Masters..." The Straits Times. Singapore. 20 February 1984. p. 38. Retrieved 21 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
12. "An eagle helps Hsi-chuen win the Philippine open". The Straits Times. Singapore. 21 February 1983. p. 39. Retrieved 18 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
13. "Hsu grabs defeat from jaws of victoty". The Straits Times. Singapore. 22 February 1982. p. 38. Retrieved 16 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
14. "Sieckmann wins open by four strokes". The Straits Times. Singapore. 23 February 1981. p. 29. Retrieved 16 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
15. "Dramatic putt gives Lu vircory". The Straits Times. Singapore. 25 February 1980. p. 28. Retrieved 9 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
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18. "Taiwan's Hsieh wins PI open". The Straits Times. Singapore. 21 February 1977. p. 31. Retrieved 16 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
19. "Police sergeant Mancao wins PI Open golf". The Straits Times. Singapore. 23 February 1976. p. 26. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
20. "An auspicious start to Kuo's title-defence". The Straits Times. Singapore. 17 February 1975. p. 22. Retrieved 17 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
21. "Lu thunders in to beat hsu for PI golf title". The Straits Times. Singapore. 18 February 1974. p. 25. Retrieved 26 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
22. "Kim sinks 10ft pressure putt to win PI Open". The Straits Times. Singapore. 26 February 1973. p. 29. Retrieved 25 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
23. "Sugimoto Wins". The Glasgow Herald. February 28, 1972. p. 5. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
24. "Sugimoto takes PI golf title by two strokes". The Straits Times. Singapore. 28 February 1972. p. 30. Retrieved 24 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
25. "Chen storms his way to title". The Straits Times. Singapore. 1 March 1971. p. 27. Retrieved 22 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
26. "Yung-yo hits jackpot after 14 years". The Straits Times. Singapore. 23 February 1970. p. 19. Retrieved 19 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
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28. "Hsu wins by 8 strokes". The Straits Times. Singapore. 26 February 1968. p. 4. Retrieved 13 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
29. "Title goes to Formosan amateur". The Straits Times. Singapore. 27 February 1967. p. 17. Retrieved 12 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
30. "Silverio takes PI Open". The Straits Times. Singapore. 28 February 1966. p. 20. Retrieved 8 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
31. "Lu takes titla as Hsieh falters". The Straits Times. Singapore. 1 March 1965. p. 19. Retrieved 7 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
32. "Thomson wins PI Open". The Straits Times. Singapore. 24 February 1964. p. 17. Retrieved 7 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
33. Becker, Don (18 February 1963). "Arda wins PI Open". The Straits Times. Singapore. p. 15. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
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35. "'Jug' McSpaden wins Philippine Open title". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. 8 January 1940 – via Newspapers.com.
36. "VON NIDA WINS PHILIPPINE OPEN". Evening News (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1924 - 1941). 1939-01-10. p. 12. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
37. "GOLF". Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW : 1911 - 1954). 1938-01-12. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
38. "Tabuena seals emphatic win #PhilippineOpen". Asian Tour. 20 December 2015.

External links

• Coverage on the Asian Tour's official site
• Golf Today