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The Arnold Palmer-designed Damai Golf Club is the venue
for the SarawakChampionship.
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THE Asian Tour will stage the inaugural Sarawak
Championship, a new event in Malaysia from July 4 to 7. Supported by the
Ministry of Tourism, Art, Culture, Youth and Sports Sarawak, the event will
offer a prize purse of US$300,000 and will be staged at Damai Golf &
Country Club just outside Kuching.
The Sarawak Championship will welcome the region’s
leading stars to Borneo Island where they face stern challenges from a few
talented Malaysian golfers.
The state government and the Ministry of Tourism,
Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Sarawak, hopes to leverage on the Tour’s global
coverage via its online and television platform to promote tourism in Sarawak.
By hosting the event, the government plans to
showcase Sarawak as a destination for golfers in Asia and around the world
while promoting the beauty of the state through the Tour’s TV highlights.
This is the first time the Asian Tour will host a
tournament in Sarawak, after staging Asian Development Tour (ADT) events there
from 2012 to 2017.
Asian Tour chief executive officer Josh Burack
welcomed the addition of the new event to the Tour’s schedule.
“The Sarawak Championship will be the fourth event
sanctioned by the Asian Tour in Malaysia in 2018 along with the EurAsia Cup,
Maybank Championship and CIMB Classic,” he said.
“This is excellent news for golf in Asia. Malaysia
is a very important market for the Asian Tour and we are delighted to add the
Sarawak Championship, which we expect to be a terrific tournament,” said
Burack.
“Our Asian Tour players are excited to compete in
Sarawak and be able to enjoy the vast culture which the state has to offer.
“Malaysia is a huge melting pot of culture and I’m
confident the beauty of Sarawak will be extensively promoted through our TV
highlights show and the additional content we produce and distribute on our
digital media channels,” he added.
The event will feature 150 players, including 25 or
more Malaysians.
-thestar online.
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