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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 Iloilo Golf and Country Club, Inc. is the home of the Sta. Barbara Golf Course, the oldest existing golf course in Southeast Asia (est. 1907). It has a challenging 18-hole golf course (6,056 yards) carved into the hills of Sta. Barbara, Iloilo. [5]
It is considered the first golf club in the Philippines and the oldest existing golf course in Southeast Asia. [1] It was the first Philippine golf club to be accepted as an affiliate of one of the oldest and most prestigious golf clubs in the world, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, based in Scotland. [2]
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By 1901, when the Philippines was already a territory of the United States, a nine-hole golf course adjacent to the site of the railway station became available for golfers. The nine-hole golf course paved the way to the creation of the Manila Golf Club and later the founding of the game tournament in the Philippines as the Philippine Open in 1913.
Wack Wack was founded by William James Shaw in 1930 – because he was disgusted that Larry Montes, a caddie who had won the 1929 Philippine Open tournament (and later many subsequent tournaments) at the Manila Golf Club in Caloocan, of which Shaw was a member, had been asked to leave the tournament celebration, by virtue of an alleged rule against the presence of caddies inside the Manila ...
The tour was founded in 2009 and was created in order to further advance professional golf in the Philippines. [1] [2] Many players from the Philippine Golf Tour have progressed through the tour, eventually playing and winning on the Asian Tour. Notable players include Antonio Lascuña, Juvic Pagunsan, Angelo Que and Miguel Tabuena. [3]
The Philippine Open was first held in Caloocan in 1913 and was sponsored by the Manila Golf Club. [1] It was moved to the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club in 1935. In the late 1980s, the National Golf Association of the Philippines (NGAP) took over the organization of the tournament and held it in other courses in the country.