PETALING JAYA: Malaysia will be represented with a strong line up at the upcoming Maybank Championship to be held at the Saujana Golf & Country Club in Subang on March 21-24.
A 13-strong Malaysian will be spearheaded by the nation’s top-ranked golfer, Gavin Kyle Green and also two other notable local pros, Ben Leong and Nicholas Fung, who were selected by virtue of their efforts on the Asian Tour.
” The Maybank Championship is a unique golf tournament, a truly ‘Where the Best Meet’. It will feature the top-60 players each from the Asian Tour and European Tour. The competition will also include 15 from the world’s top 150. “
The other 10 home stars selected among others were Professional Golf of Malaysia Tour (PGM Tour) player of the year, Shahriffuddin Ariffin, veteran Danny Chia, Amir Nazrin, Sukree Othman, R. Nachimuthu, Wilson Choo and Kenneth De Silva, who qualified through local rankings.
“The Maybank Championship is a unique golf tournament, a truly ‘Where the Best Meet’. It will feature the top-60 players each from the Asian Tour and European Tour. The competition will also include 15 from the world’s top 150.
“Hence, we have set aside places for the top-10 Malaysian golfers, so that they too have the exposure of playing in a world class event,” said director of Maybank, Datuk R. Karunakaran in his speech at Maybank Championship Media Golf Day dinner and prize presentation here, Thursday night. Karunakaran noted that for the past three years of hosting the event, the 2019 edition would also be as thrilling and would see a new winner.
“The newly revamped greens will surely add on to the excitement,” he said.
The 156 players will be playing at the newly refurbished Palm Course, which is also well known as ‘The Cobra’ among the golfers.
According to GlobalOne chief executive officer, John Eu, the refurbishment of the greens should reach at least 10.5 feet on the Stimpmeter.
“We could may be get up to 11.5 feet during tournament week. This is mainly because the most significant improvements made in the refurbishment centred on the 18 putting greens. The seed bed of all greens was replaced with cleaner and slightly coarser washed river sand. This was vitally important as it improves the porosity of the seed bed, especially during a heavy down pour,” said Eu. – Bernama
