Tournament Information:

• Tournament: BNI Indonesian Masters
• Date: October 31- November 3, 2024
• Venue: Royale Jakarta Golf Club
• Par/Yards: Par 72 / 7,361 Yards
• Purse: US$2 million (First place US$360,000)
• Asian Tour leg: 17th event of the 2024 season
• International Series leg: Seventh
• Edition of tournament: 12^th
• Total number of players: 144
• Format: 72-hole stroke play with a cut made after two rounds to the leading 65 pros plus ties
• Social Media Hashtags: #BNIIM2024 #IndoMasters #InternationalSeries #ThisISEverything #TimeToRise

John Catlin. Picture by Paul Lakatos/Asian Tour.

Field Breakdown

• Order of Merit winners: Sihwan Kim (2022), Jazz Janewattananond (2019), Scott Hend (2016), Kiradech Aphibarnrat (2013)
• Nationalities: 27
• Top contenders: John Catlin (USA), Ben Campbell (NZL), Michael Maguire (USA), Lee Chieh-po (TPE), Richard T. Lee (CAN), Bubba Watson (USA), Richard Bland (ENG), Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA)
• Highest ranked player on OWGR: John Catlin (USA) #119
• Highest ranked player on 2024 Asian Tour Order of Merit: John Catlin #1
• Highest ranked player on 2024 International Series Rankings: John Catlin #1
• Defending champion: Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND)
• Number of amateurs: 2
• Number of Indonesian players in the field: 18

MJ Maguire. Picture by Paul Lakatos/Asian Tour.

Tournament Notes

• American John Catlin has been superb this whole season with seven top 10s in 10 Asian Tour events, and he leads both the Asian Tour Order of Merit and The International Series Rankings. The 33-year-old has posted two victories so far this season, the International Series Macau presented by Wynn and the Saudi Open presented by PIF, as well as three runners-up in the Black Mountain Championship, the International Series Morocco and the Yeangder TPC. A tied third finish in the season opening Malaysian Open secured him a spot in the 152nd Open Championship where he finished tied 16th for his best result in a major. He currently leads the Merit list with 2,900.68 points, ahead of last week’s winner Lee Chieh-po, who is in second place with 1,347.35. He also tops The International Series Ranking with 838.78 points against 621.10 for American Peter Uihlein who sits in second. He has also subbed in for injured players on three different teams on the LIV Golf League this year and posted an impressive T7 in LIV Golf Nashville in June. Catlin has amassed US$1,332,125 in earnings on the Asian Tour so far this season, while his LIV Golf League total was US$1,629,367 in his 2024 campaign.
• Last week’s winner Lee Chieh-po of Chinese Taipei has been on a tear lately, and in addition to the win at Thai Country Club last week, also had a solo third at the Black Mountain Championship, missing the play-off by only one shot, a fourth-place finish at Yeangder TPC and a T9 at the Shinhan Donghae Open in September.
• New Zealander Ben Campbell is a two-time International Series winner after capturing this summer’s International Series Morocco in a play-off against John Catlin, and the 2023 Hong Kong Open. Currently third on both the Asian Tour Order of Merit and in The International Series Rankings, Campbell finished T4 in the Black Mountain Championship two weeks ago, and other good results this season includes a T5 at the International Series Macau presented by Wynn and a T10 at the 103rd New Zealand Open presented by Sky Sport.
• American MJ Maguire won the Black Mountain Championship two weeks ago after defeating John Catlin on the second play-off hole, and again had a great week at the International Series Thailand finishing T4 after a final round 61. He has made big gains on the Asian Tour Order of Merit and on The International Series Rankings the last two weeks, and now sits in fourth and fifth place respectively. Maguire also had a good result at the Mercuries Taiwan Masters a month ago where he finished T7.
• Richard T. Lee from Canada finished T2 at last week’s International Series Thailand, his third top 10 in a row after a T9 at the Black Mountain Championship and a T10 at the Yeangder TPC. He has been a remarkably consistent high performer this season, and also finished third at the GS Caltex Maekyung Open and eighth at the International Series Macau. His current cut streak on the Asian Tour stands at 13, and the last tournament he was not around for the weekend was last year’s International Series Singapore in October. Lee’s last Asian Tour win, his second, came at the Shinhan Donghae Open in 2017 and he is due for a return to the winner’s circle.
• The two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson from the U.S. who now captains RangeGoats GC on the LIV Golf League is making his first appearance at the BNI Indonesian Masters and will be aiming to add another “Masters” to his resume. While he has not had his best season on LIV this year, with his power off the tee and ability to shape his shots both ways, he might be a threat this week at Royale Jakarta. Watson is the winner of 12 PGA Tour events during his career, and his best Asian Tour result is a solo second at the 2022 PIF Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers.
• The 51-year-old Englishman Richard Bland, who plays for the Cleeks on the LIV Golf League, captured the “Bland Slam” this summer, winning the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship and the U.S. Senior Open, the only senior Majors he was eligible to enter. In his only Asian Tour start this season he finished seventh at the International Series England.
• Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat won the Asian Tour Order of Merit in 2013 after winning the DP World Tour co-sanctioned Maybank Malaysian Open, and a T3 at the PGA Tour co-sanctioned CIMB Classic. During his career he has won three Asian Tour events and four DP World Tour events, and in 2018 he gained membership status on the PGA Tour for the 2018–19 season, becoming the first PGA Tour member from Thailand to do so. Nicknamed “Arm”, his best result this season has been a solo second after a playoff loss in the Porsche Singapore Classic on the DP World Tour in March.