First played: 1962 (European Tour since 1999)
Youngest winner: Yeh Wei-Tze, 27, 2000
Oldest winner: Vijay Singh, 37, 2001
Lowest 18 hole score: 64 (-8), Tse-Peng Chang, 1999
Lowest first 18 hole
score: 65 (-7), Arjun Atwal, 2000
Lowest 36 hole score: 134 (-10), Gerry Norquist, 1999
Lowest 54 hole total: 204 (-10), Padraig Harrington, 2001
Lowest 72 hole score: 274 (-14), Vijay Singh, 2001
Wire-to-wire-winners: none
Biggest final round
comeback by a winner: 3, Yeh Wei-Tze, 1999
Play-offs: Vijay Singh beat Padraig Harrington,
third extra hole, 2001
Holes-in-one: Wen-Teh Lu, 1999
INTERESTING FACTS
Gerry Norquist, winner in 1999 and Yeh Wei-Tze, winner a year later, both achieved their debut victories on The European Tour in this event, both playing only their second European Tour event. Vijay Singh's 2001 victory was his tenth on the European Tour International Schedule and his 11th followed a week later when the Fijian beat Warren Bennett in the Caltex Singapore Masters. Of Vijay's 30 professional titles six have come in Asia, including the Malaysian Open in 1992.
