Johnnie Walker Classic
The Johnnie Walker Classic was a European Tour golf tournament which was played in the Asia-Pacific region. Johnnie Walker is a brand name and the owners have a long history of tournament sponsorship. They also sponsored the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles which was a European Tour event played in Scotland.
The event was originally called the Johnnie Walker Asian Classic. There was a tournament already called the Johnnie Walker Classic in Australia, but when that event ceased in 1992, the word Asian was dropped from the name.
History
In 1989 Johnnie Walker sponsored the Hong Kong Open, and it was decided to establish an additional tournament which it would sponsor on an ongoing basis. This tournament was called the Johnnie Walker Asian Classic, and was first staged in Hong Kong in 1990. It later evolved into a traveling event that was primarily utilized by its sponsor as a marketing strategy in the Asia Pacific region. In 1992 it became the first event to be sanctioned by the European Tour in East Asia (the Dubai Desert Classic was the first in Asia as a whole).
In 1993 the word Asian was dropped from the title. In 2005 the tournament was held in China for the first time, as part of the European Tour's push into China, which saw four events held in mainland China and one in Hong Kong in the 2005 season. The location of the tournament changes every year.
The tournament was co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour of Australasia from 1996,[1] and by the Asian Tour from 1999.[2]
In 2005 the tri-sanctioned event had a field consisting of 60 European Tour players, 60 Asian Tour players, 28 PGA Tour of Australasia players, and 8 sponsors' invitees. The prize fund was £1,250,000. This amount is large by Asian and Australasian Tour standards, but not by European Tour or PGA Tour standards. However the tournament attracts a number of the World's leading players each year by paying them large appearance fees.
Nine of the first fourteen editions were won by players who have topped the Official World Golf Ranking at some point in their career (Faldo, Els and Woods twice each; Woosnam, Norman and Couples once each).
Winners
Year | Tour(s)[a] | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Venue |
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Johnnie Walker Classic | |||||||
2009 | ANZ, ASA, EUR | Danny Lee (a) | 271 | −17 | 1 stroke | Felipe Aguilar Hiroyuki Fujita Ross McGowan | The Vines, Australia |
2008 | ANZ, ASA, EUR | Mark Brown | 270 | −18 | 3 strokes | Greg Chalmers Taichiro Kiyota Scott Strange | DLF, India |
2007 | ANZ, ASA, EUR | Anton Haig | 275 | −13 | Playoff | Richard Sterne Oliver Wilson | Blue Canyon, Thailand |
2006 | ANZ, ASA, EUR | Kevin Stadler | 268 | −20 | 2 strokes | Nick O'Hern | The Vines, Australia |
2005 | ANZ, ASA, EUR | Adam Scott | 270 | −18 | 3 strokes | Retief Goosen | Pine Valley, China |
2004 | ANZ, ASA, EUR | Miguel Ángel Jiménez | 271 | −17 | 2 strokes | Thomas Bjørn Jyoti Randhawa | Alpine Golf, Thailand |
2003 | ANZ, ASA, EUR | Ernie Els (2) | 259 | −29 | 10 strokes | Stephen Leaney Andre Stolz | Lake Karrinyup, Australia |
2002 | ANZ, ASA, EUR | Retief Goosen | 274 | −14 | 8 strokes | Pierre Fulke | Lake Karrinyup, Australia |
2001: No tournament due to rescheduling from November to January | |||||||
2000 | ANZ, ASA, EUR | Tiger Woods (2) | 263 | −25 | 3 strokes | Geoff Ogilvy | Alpine Golf, Thailand |
1999 | ANZ, ASA, EUR | Michael Campbell | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Geoff Ogilvy | Tashee, Taiwan |
1998 | ANZ, EUR | Tiger Woods | 279 | −9 | Playoff | Ernie Els | Blue Canyon, Thailand |
1997 | ANZ, EUR | Ernie Els | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | Peter Lonard Michael Long | Hope Island, Australia |
1996 | ANZ, EUR | Ian Woosnam | 272 | −16 | Playoff | Andrew Coltart | Tanah Merah, Singapore |
1995 | EUR | Fred Couples | 277 | −11 | 2 strokes | Nick Price | The Orchard, Philippines |
1994 | EUR | Greg Norman | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | Fred Couples | Blue Canyon, Thailand |
1993 | EUR | Nick Faldo | 269 | −11 | 1 stroke | Colin Montgomerie | Singapore Island, Singapore |
Johnnie Walker Asian Classic | |||||||
1992 | EUR | Ian Palmer | 268 | −20 | 1 stroke | Bernhard Langer Brett Ogle Ronan Rafferty | Pinehurst, Thailand |
1991: No tournament | |||||||
1990 | Nick Faldo | 270 | −14 | 4 strokes | Ian Woosnam | Royal Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
Notes
- ^ ANZ − PGA Tour of Australasia; ASA − Asian Tour; EUR − European Tour.
References
- ^ Stone, Peter (10 May 1995). "Move to a global tour revealed". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. p. 73 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Happell, Charles (10 November 1999). "Australians get a chance to topple Tiger". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. p. 59 – via Newspapers.com.
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