Singapore: Top golfers Gaganjeet Bhullar, SSP Chawrasia, Jeev Milkha Singh, and Karandeep Kochhar are among the golfers on the impressive roster of 11 Indians for this year’s Singapore Open, which tees off on the Serapong course at Sentosa Golf Club.
The 57th edition of Singapore’s National Open is part of The International Series and will carry a prize purse of $2 million.
Something that the Indian contingent will eye dearly is that this year’s Singapore Open will pave the way for qualification to the 154th Open this July, wherein the leading two players, not otherwise exempt, will be rewarded with spots in the game’s oldest Major.
Kochhar, who has been in scintillating form over the past few months, is one of the headlining acts this week. Joining him will be other Indian heavyweights such as 11-time Asian Tour winner Bhullar; Chawrasia, with 6 Asian Tour titles; Jeev Milkha Singh, who has twice won the Asian Tour Order of Merit and has 6 Asian Tour wins; and Shiv Kapur, also a 3-time Asian Tour winner.
Former winners Ajeetesh Sandhu and Rashid Khan will be teeing up at the Singapore Open, as will the young brigade from India comprising Pukhraj Singh Gill, Sachin Baisoya, Shaurya Bhattacharya, and Shubham Jaglan.
The Singapore Open was last played at Sentosa Golf Club in 2022, when Thailand’s Sadom Kaewkanjana beat Tom Kim from Korea.
Apart from Sadom, the field this year also features a stellar global lineup that includes LIV Golf stars Lucas Herbert of Australia, Josele Ballester and Luis Masaveu from Spain, Americans Peter Uihlein, Caleb Surratt, plus Sweden’s Bjorn Hellgren.
Travis Smyth, who claimed the International Series Japan to take the lead on the Asian Tour Order of Merit (OOM) and The International Series Rankings, is back in action, as well as reigning Merit champion Kazuki Higa from Japan.
Former OOM winners John Catlin, Andy Ogletree, and Sihwan Kim from the United States have also entered, as well as Thailand’s Jazz Janewattananond.
