Tournament Information

• Tournament: International Series Macau presented by Wynn
• Date: 20th – 23rd March 2025
• Venue: Macau Golf and Country Club, Macao, China
• Par/Yards: 70/6,750 yards
• Purse: US$2million (first place US$360,000)
• Defending Champion: John Catlin (USA)
• Asian Tour leg: Fourth
• The International Series leg: Second
• Edition of tournament: Second
• Total number of players: 150
• Format: 72-hole stroke play with a cut made after two rounds to the leading 65 pros plus ties
• Open Qualifying Series (OQS) – The leading three players, not already exempt, who make the cut at International Series Macau presented by Wynn will earn places in The 153rd Open at Royal Portrush from 13-20 July 2025
• Social media hashtags: #TimeToRise ​#InternationalSeries #ThisISEverything

Picture by Graham Uden/54.

Field Breakdown

• Order of Merit winners: John Catlin (2024), Andy Ogletree (2023), Sihwan Kim (2022), Jazz Janewattananond (2019), Scott Hend (2016), Anirban Lahiri (2015), Jeev Milkha Singh (2008, 2006), Liang Wenchong (2007)
• Nationalities: 30
• Top contenders: John Catlin (USA), Kazuki Higa (JPN), Lucas Herbert (AUS), David Puig (ESP), Sergio Garcia (ESP), Peter Uihlein (USA), Patrick Reed (USA), Ollie Schniederjans (USA)
• Highest ranked player on OWGR: David Puig #89
• Highest ranked player on 2025 Asian Tour Order of Merit: Ollie Schniederjans (USA) #1
• Highest ranked player in The International Series Rankings: Ollie Schniederjans (USA) #1
• Number of amateurs: 2
• Number of Macao players in the field: 3

The famous par-three 17th. Picture by Paul Lakatos/Asian Tour.

Tournament Notes

• Spain’s Sergio Garcia has won 38 tournaments as a professional, most notably the 2017 Masters Tournament and the 2008 Players Championship. The Fireballs GC captain’s most recent win came on the LIV Golf League in Hong Kong two weeks ago, and he also posted a win at last year’s Andalucia event. On the team side of LIV Golf his Fireballs won again in Singapore last week for the third consecutive title. In addition to his Masters win Garcia has recorded an impressive 22 other top 10s in Major championships, including two second place finishes and two T2s. He has represented Europe in the Ryder Cup 10 times, on the winning side on six occasions, and he holds the Ryder Cup record for Most Overall Matches Won with 25, Most Overall Points Won with 28.5 and Most Wins in Foursome Matches with 12. His highest ever rank on the OWGR was second, which he reached in late 2008.
• The winner of last year’s International Series Macau Presented by Wynn, American John Catlin, posted his first top 10 of the season at the recent New Zealand Open presented by Sky Sport where he finished seventh. The 2024 Asian Tour Order of Merit champion had a spectacular season last year, posting wins in Macau and at the Saudi Open presented by PIF, three runners-up and eight top 10s in 15 events on the way to setting the all-time Money List record with US$1,456,800. He also recorded his best result in a Major, finishing T16 in the Open Championship at Royal Troon.
• Japan’s Kazuki Higa has started his Asian Tour season with three straight top 10s, including a T2 at the New Zealand Open presented by Sky Sport, a T5 at International Series India presented by DLF and a T8 in the Smart Infinity Philippine Open. Higa won four tournaments in Japan in 2022, including the Asian Tour and Korean Tour tri-sanctioned Shinhan Donghae Open, and won the Japan Tour Money List that year.
• Lucas Herbert from Australia is part of Cameron Smith’s Ripper GC team on the LIV Golf league and is off to a good start to his 2025 LIV season finishing fourth in Hong Kong and T4 in Riyadh, his best individual finishes on LIV. He was also part of Ripper’s two team titles in 2024 when they finished third in the overall team standings. Prior to joining LIV he posted three DP World Tour and one PGA Tour win. Herbert finished solo third at International Series Macau presented by Wynn last year.
• David Puig of Spain was runner-up in the International Series Macau presented by Wynn last year, after coming up short in a play-off against eventual winner John Catlin. As a member of Sergio Garcia’s Fireballs GC team on the LIV Golf League he has this year posted two fourth place finishes and a T6 in Singapore, Adelaide and Riyadh respectively, and his team currently has three straight wins in Adelaide, Hong Kong and Singapore. The 23-year-old now has eight team victories on LIV, more than any other player, winning four times with the Fireballs GC in 2024-2025 and four with Torque GC in 2023. Puig has also played in two DP World Tour events this year and finished top five in both, a third in the Ras Al Khaimah Championship and a T4 in the Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship. He has two Asian Tour victories on his resume, the 2023 International Series Singapore and the 2024 IRS Prima Malaysian Open.
• American Peter Uihlein won two International Series events last year, the International Series England and International Series Qatar, and was narrowly pipped in the International Series Rankings after Joaquin Niemann won the final event at the PIF Saudi International in December. Playing on Bubba Watson’s Range Goats GC side on the LIV Golf League, Uihlein has posted a T6 in Hong Kong as his best result this season.
• Patrick Reed of the U.S. won the Link Hong Kong Open, an International Series event, in late 2024 after famously shooting a third round 59. He had earlier in the season finished fourth in the International Series Macau presented by Wynn. The 2018 Masters Tournament champion is a nine-time winner on the PGA Tour and has appeared on three Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup squads each. In 2025 Reed has recorded two top 10s in three events on the DP World Tour, while in the LIV Golf League he has a T10 at the Hong Kong event as his best result.
• American Ollie Schniederjans leads both the Order of Merit and the International Series Rankings after winning the International Series India presented by DLF after beating Bryson DeChambeau by four strokes. Before turning pro in 2015 he was ranked number one in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, a position he had held for 41 straight weeks.
• There are three Major championship winners in the field this week: Patrick Reed (2018 Masters Tournament), Sergio Garcia (2017 Masters Tournament) and Graeme McDowell (2010 U.S. Open).
• A total of 18 current LIV Golf League regulars are in the field this week.