The Asian
Seniors Tour on behalf of Main
Sponsors - Giant, Citi, GAB, Heineken, F&N & the Oxley
Capital Group along with Tropical Wealth
Sdn Bhd and ASM Golf the event promoters and
organisers are pleased to announce that the AST will
stage the 6th edition of the annual ASM @ Malaysia
tournament from Wednesday 30th - Tuesday 6th July 2010
The ASM @ Malaysia will be preceded by Private
Corporate & Sponsors ASM Pro-Ams to be staged
over 4 days.
Sponsors & Public Pro-Ams will be staged
on Thu 1st & Sat 3rd July at Nilai
Springs GCC
The 5th edition of the annual Giant Corporate
Golf Challenge will be staged at KLGCC
on Fri 2nd July - participation is by invitation only
The 4th edition of the Citi Corporate Pro-Am Golf
Day will be staged at Glemnarie
GCC on Sun 4th July - participation is by invitation
only
The 2 day 2010 ASM @ Malaysia Professional Tournament
will be staged on Monday 5th, and Tuesday 6th July 2010 at
Nilai Springs
GCC who will also host ASM Pro-Ams for their
members in conjunction with AST Professional's practice
rounds and the Annual Pan-Malaysia Amateur Qualifier
Tournament - on Sun 4th July 2010 afternoon.
The amatuer golfers can be of any gender, and at least
12 years of age, both individual and 3 person Pro-Am team
entries are welcomed. For Malaysia based golfers please follow
the link for more information
about playing in an ASM @ Malaysia Pro-Am
For overseas based amateur golfers requiring accommodation
please follow the link for information
about the 7 day ASM @ Malaysia Pro-Am & Social golfers package
To learn more about what the 2010 ASM @ Malaysia tournament
has to offer click the link for an ASM
event Tournament week overview
Non PGA members & Male Senior Amateur golfers aged
50+ may enter the 2010
ASM @ Malaysia - Asian Seniors PGA Tour Pro Q School
to become members of the Asian Seniors PGA Tour.
In December 2009 the inaugural ASM @ Pulai Springs
(Johor) Malaysia was won by M_Ramayah
- (Malaysia) with 3 under beating new comer Nopajak
Mesom -(Thailand) during the sudden death play off, with
Bill Fung - (Singapore) coming 3rd with 218
The 2009 ASM @ Malaysia was won by M_Ramayah
- (Malaysia) with 10 under, a 4 stroke lead over
the 1st runner up Chan Chin Kuo - (Taiwan) with 6 under,
followed by 2nd runner up Kim Jung Nam - (Korean) playing
under the Seniors PGA the Philippines flag who came 3rd with
4 under.
The successful 2008 ASM @ Malaysia - Tasik_Puteri_GCC
was won by Sutep_Bunpimuk
- (Thailand) who managed to close and later reversed
local favourite M_Ramayah
- (Malaysia) 2 stroke lead on the final day to emerge
as this year’s ASM @ Malaysia Champion.
Sutep shot 74 on the final day returning
221 beating the ASM @ Malaysia's leader for the first 2 days,
Ramayah - (Malaysia) by 3 strokes who shoot a final
day 79 returning 224. Eduardo_Bagtas
from the Philippines and Lai_Chung_Hui
from Taiwan emerging joint 3rd returned 228
This coming July 2009 we all look
forward to seeing Sutep and previous ASM @ Malaysia
finalists and past Champions return to contest the 2009
ASM @ Malaysia - Tasik Puteri GCC where Sutep
will put to the test by worthy adversaries in defense of his
ASM @ Malaysia Champion's title
The 2007 ASM @ Malaysia - PGCC
was won by Chen_Tsang_Te
from Taiwan who managed a final round 68, including
a birdie on the 18th hole, he beat local favourite M_Ramayah
from Malaysia playing in the same flight, who also
birdied his last hole. Chen returned an ASM @ Malaysia and
an AST record winning score of 10 under par 206, beating Ramayah
by only a single stroke.
The second edition of the 2006
ASM @ Malaysia - Palm Garden_GC was won by defending
Champion, Australian National and Malaysia resident Stewart
Ginn - (Australai) claiming his second ASM @
Malaysia Champion's title after his convincing triumph at
the inaugural ASM @ Malaysia - Palm Resort GCC staged
in 2005
Stewart valiantly defended his 2005 ASM
@ Malaysia Champion's title, winning a sudden death play
off at the 2006 ASM @ Malaysia - Palm GCC
against Amporn
Manerat - (Thailand) to once again emerge Champion,
it was unfortunate that due to a conflict in schedules he
was unable to defend his 2005 and 2006 ASM @ Malaysia Champion's
Title at the recent 2007 ASM @ Malaysia - PGCC
The inaugural 2005
ASM @ Malaysia staged at Palm Resort GC - Johor
fielded some 105 senior professional golfers, featuring some
of the world's finest senior professionals, with invitations
extended to many of Asia's and the World’s top players
along with some 600 amateur golfers.
Choi_Yoon_Soo
from Korea won the inaugural ASM @ Singapore
staged in 2003 at the Jurong CC where he defeated
Canadian John_Irwin
on the first hole of a sudden death play-off, sinking a 3
metre putt for a birdie on the 18th hole par 5 to clinch the
inaugural ASM tournament.
Tied for 3rd place were 1st round leader Terry
Gale - (Australia), the 2nd round leader Tienie
Britz - (South Africa) and John
Benda - (USA) and they were followed in 6th place
at 2 under by Mike
Ferguson - (Australia) Kuo
Chie-Hsiung - (Taiwan) and Mario
Siodina - (Philippines)
Since its humble beginning, in 2003 the Asian Senior Tour
have stage the following annual events, the ASM @
Taiwan, the ASM @ Malaysia, the ASM @ Singapore,
the ASM @ Indonesia (Batam) and the Bi-Annual ASM
@ Phuket event, and from the 75 foundation members who
contested the inaugural
ASM @ Singapore in 2003 the AST now has representatives
from over 28 countries, and more than 400 members.
The AST's 2009 season begins in July 2009 with
the 5th edition of the annual ASM @ Malaysia and followed
in October by the 7th editions of annual ASM @ Taiwan
and ASM
@ Singapore
in early December and will end in late December with the inaugural
2009
ASM @ Brunei
The ASM event format allows many of Malaysia's,
Singapore’s and the Asian region’s leading amateur
golfers to compete in the ASM Amateur Finals, playing
alongside senior professional golfers in the first 2 days
of the ASM Professional tournament.
Asian Senior Master events showcase a mixture of some of
the best senior professional golfers from Australia, Europe,
South Africa and Asia and Asian Senior PGA Tour members
and other PGA profesionals who have contested previous ASM
tournaments have once again done AST
the considerable honour by confirming their intention to contest
the forthcoming 2010 ASM @ Malaysia tournament in July
2010.
The 2010 ASM @ Malaysia will once again
host past Champions along with past Malaysian
Open Champions including Terry_Gale
and Stewart_Ginn
and Brian_Jones
from Australia plus previous Malaysian Seniors Open
Champions including John_Clifford
and Mike_Ferguson
and various golfing legends and players from the European
Seniors Tour, the Champions Tour, the South African, Japanese,
Australian and the New Zealand Seniors Tour’s
Leading Asian players include MALAYSIA’s
– M Ramayah, V. Nellan and Abdul Latiff Mahmood, Taiwnan's
Legendry
Hsieh_Min_Nan, and country men Chen Tse-ming, Hsu
Chi-san, and Kuo Chi-Hsiung, E. Nival from the Philippines,
Sukiree Oncham from Thailand, and from South Korea
Choi Yoon Soo, and
Choi_Sang-ho still the oldest winner on the Asian
Tour
The winners of the various ASM @ Malaysia Pro-Ams
secure places in the ASM Amateur Semi-Finals to be
staged during the first 2 days of the ASM @ Malaysia Professional
Tournament and the top 6 amateur golfers will go on to
contest the Amateur Finals on the final day of the
2010 ASM @ Malaysia Pro tournament
Amateurs, click here
for details of how to enter an ASM Pro-Am
The "Senior Master's" theme aptly reflects
what ASM events have to offer, over 120 top caliber senior
golfing professionals, each having played the game for over
30 years with 100's of international victories among them.
The AST is truly proud to bring you such a celebrated event
as the ASM to be contested by esteemed senior professional
golfers, and wishes to extend a big THANK YOU
to all Sponsors
for their support.
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