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HK’s Clearwater Bay Open returns for second year
The successful Clearwater Bay Open will return for a second year in 2017. The 72-hole tournament is set for October 30-November 5. In 2016, Australian Daniel Nisbet battled American Alex Kang. Nisbet won in a one-hole playoff in the first PGA TOUR-sanctioned event played at the stunning and picturesque course situated alongside the South China Sea.
Eligible players include all 2016 PGA TOUR China tournament winners, the top60 money-winners on the 2016 PGA TOUR China Order of Merit, the top-30 available players from the 2016 China Golf Association Ranking List, 10 open qualifiers and 10 sponsor exemptions. Also, among others, up to 10 current Web.com Tour or PGA TOUR members and the top-three available finishers on the 2017 Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Order of Merit and the 2016 PGA TOUR Latinoamérica Order of Merit will be eligible to play. Nisbet gave his wholehearted endorsement of both the course and the tournament following his victory in 2016. “This is the most enjoyable week I’ve had on a golf course. This is the most breathtaking course I’ve ever played. It’s hard to play bad golf around here.” “The 2016 Clearwater Bay Open was a smashing success, with all credit going to our players and this tremendous golf course. This is a fabu lous club wit h whom we want to partner for the long term,” added Greg Gilligan, Managing Director, PGA TOUR China.
Asian Tour Heads Back to Ho Tram
Tom Eubank
The Asian Tour will return to Vietnam’s most acclaimed golf facility in 2018 and 2019, as the Ho Tram Players Championship will take place Dec. 6-9 next year, and then again at some point the following season. In 2015, the links-style layout on Vietnam’s south-central coast staged the Ho Tram Open, which was won by reigning Masters Champion Sergio Garcia and voted ‘Event of the Year’ by Asian Tour members. Since opening in 2014, the spectacular Greg Norman design has earned a number of major accolades, including ‘World’s Best New Golf Course’ at the 2015 World Golf Awards. The Bluffs was also the only course in Vietnam to make Golf Digest USA’s 20162017 ranking of the ‘100 Greatest Golf Courses in the World.’ “The Ho Tram Open was a huge success,” said Michael Kelly, Executive Chairman and CEO of Asian Coast Development Ltd. (ACDL), developer of the Ho Tram Strip. “It’s time for some of the world’s best golfers to come back to Ho Tram, and for us to once again show the world how spectacular The Bluffs and the country of Vietnam are.” 10
HK GOLFER・OCT 2017
Par-3 2nd hole of The Bluffs Ho Tram
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