Tournament Information

• Tournament: Mandiri Indonesia Open
• Venue: Damai Indah Golf, PIK Course
• Date: August 29 – September 1, 2024
• Purse: US$500,000 (winner US$90,000)
• Asian Tour leg: 10th event of 2024 season
• Course Par/Yards: 71 / 7,100 yards
• Total number of players: 150
• Format: 72-hole stroke play with a cut made after two rounds. Leading 65 pros plus ties make it through to the weekend
• Social Media Hashtags: #MIO2024 #TimeToRise

Nitithorn Thippong is this week’s defending champion. Picture by Graham Uden/Asian Tour.

Field Breakdown

• Order of Merit winners: Scott Hend (2016)
• Number of Nationalities: 24
• Past winners in field: Nitithorn Thippong (THA) 2023, Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND) 2022, 2016 & 2013, Miguel Carballo (ARG) 2019, Panuphol Pittayarat (THA) 2017
• Defending champion: Nitithorn Thippong (THA)
• Top contenders: Nitithorn Thippong (THA), Travis Smyth (AUS) Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND), Sadom Kaewkanjana (THA), Sampson Zheng (CHN), Taichi Kho (HKG), Miguel Tabuena (PHI)
• Highest ranked player on OWGR: Travis Smyth (AUS) #315
• Highest ranked player on 2024 Asian Tour Order of Merit: Travis Smyth (AUS) #12
• Number of amateurs: 13
• Number of Indonesian players in the field: 41

Sadom Kaewkanjana has arrived in Indonesia in-form having tied for fourth in England. Picture by Paul Lakatos/Asian Tour.

 Tournament Notes

• Australian Travis Smyth is having a good season with three top 10s so far, with a T5 at the International Series Morocco as his best result. The winner of the 2022 Yeangder TPC has finished fourth and seventh on the Asian Tour Order of Merit in the last two seasons and will be looking for a return to the winner’s circle this week to boost him up the rankings. He is the highest ranked player in the field.
• Gaganjeet Bhullar of India is always dangerous in Indonesia, having won five of his 11 Asian Tour titles in the country. In addition to winning the Mandiri Indonesia Open three times in his career, he also won the 2023 BNI Indonesian Masters and the 2009 Indonesia President Invitational. The latter his first Asian Tour victory.
• Thailand’s Sadom Kaewkanjana did not have the best start to his 2024 season but looks like he’s back on track after finishing T4 in the International Series England at Foxhills three weeks ago. Sadom is a two-time winner on the Asian Tour, having claimed the 2022 SMBC Singapore Open and the 2019 Bangabandhu Cup Golf Open.
• Sampson Zheng from China was a highly ranked amateur before he turned pro earlier this summer, and the 2023 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship runner up. He was ranked 13th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. Zheng posted his best finish so far as a pro with a T4 at the recent International Series England and will be aiming to top that result this week in Jakarta.
• Australian Scott Hend posted the first of his 10 Asian Tour victories at Damai Indah Golf PIK course in the 2008 Pertamina Indonesia President Invitational, and he is having a solid season so far with a solo second in the New Zealand Open and a T8 at the Saudi Open presented by PIF as his best results.
• The last time the Mandiri Indonesia Open was held at Damai Indah Golf PIK Course was in 2014, and it was three-time Major winner Padraig Harrington of Ireland who came out victorious by two shots over Thailand’s Thanyakon Khrongpha. Gaganjeet Bhullar won the first of his Indonesia Open tiles at Damai Indah Golf PIK Course the year before.
• Up-and-coming Indonesian star Jonathan Wijono will lead the local challenge following a sparkling performance in the recent International Series England. He shot a scorching nine-under-par 64 in the final round in England enroute to finishing ninth and will be hoping his putter will be equally as hot as he tries to become only the second Indonesian to win his country’s National Open, after Kasiadi in 1989. Wijono is among an exciting crop of young Indonesia golfers starting to make their name in the game who are also competing this week. They include Naraajie E. Ramadhanputra and Kevin Akbar – both winners on the Asian Development Tour – plus amateur Gabriel Hansel Hari, who tied ninth last year.