Overview

The 57^th edition of Singapore’s National Open will be staged this week on The Serapong for the 15^th occasion while it welcomes The Business Times on board as presenting partner for the first time.

The Business Times is part of Singapore Press Holding (SPH) Media, an iconic institution in Singapore. The partnership marks the first time that a flagship news publication has sealed such a deal with the National Open. They have aligned their sponsorship with their 50^th anniversary celebrations.

The tournament was last played at Sentosa Golf Club in 2022, when Thailand’s Sadom Kaewkanjana beat Tom Kim from Korea and Japan’s Yuto Katsuragawa from Japan by two strokes.

The Singapore Open is part of The International Series – the upper-tier level of events that provide you with a pathway to the LIV Golf League.

This year’s Singapore Open will also pave the way for qualification to the 154^th Open as part of the Open Qualifying Series.

The leading two players, not otherwise exempt, will be rewarded with places in the game’s oldest Major, which will be played at Royal Birkdale from 16-19 July.

Kazuki Higa.

Sentosa Golf Club

Sentosa Golf Club is the award-winning golf club that first hosted the Singapore Open in 2005.

The Club has set the benchmark for course conditioning across our entire region for many years.

The Club is regularly ranked in the top-100 golf courses in the world.  The Serapong has hosted LIV Golf Singapore for the past three years while The Tanjong is the home of the HSBC Women’s World Championship and also hosted the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship and Women’s Amateur Asia- Pacific Championship.

The club was first opened in 1974 by then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

Tournament Information

• Tournament: Singapore Open presented by The Business Times
• Date: 23rd – 26th April 2026
• Venue: Sentosa Golf Club, The Serapong, Singapore
• Par/Yards: 71 / 7,411 yards
• Purse: US$2million. The winner receives US$360,000.
• Asian Tour leg: Fourth
• The International Series leg: Second
• Edition of tournament: 57^th
• Previous winner: Yosuke Asaji (JPN)
• Total number of players: 144
• Format: Stroke play tournament over four rounds of 18 holes with a cut after 36 holes to leading 65 pros plus ties.
• Open Qualifying Series (OQS): The leading two players, not already exempt, who make the cut at the Singapore Open will earn places in The 154th Open at Royal Birkdale from 16 – 19 July 2026

Andy Ogletree.

Field Breakdown

• Order of Merit winners: Kazuki Higa (2025), John Catlin (2024), Andy Ogletree (2023), Sihwan Kim (2022), Jazz Janewattananond (2019), Jeev Milkha Singh (2006, 2008)
• Nationalities: 29
• Top contenders: Travis Smyth (AUS), Lucas Herbert (AUS), Peter Uihlein (USA), Pavit Tangkamolprasert (THA), Josele Ballester (ESP), Austen Truslow (USA)
• Highest ranked player on OWGR: Travis Smyth #136
• Highest ranked player on the Order of Merit: Travis Smyth (AUS) #1
• Highest ranked player on The International Series Rankings: Travis Smyth (AUS) #1
• No. of amateurs in the field: 2
• No. of Singaporean players in the field: 12

Tournament Notes

• Australian Travis Smyth returned to the winner’s circle in dramatic fashion at the International Series Japan three weeks ago to post his second Asian Tour victory, making an eagle on the 72^nd hole to win by one shot over Thailand’s Pavit Tangkamolprasert and Ryosuke Kinoshita from Japan. He also recorded a third-place finish at the Philippine Golf Championship and a solo-fifth at the New Zealand Open presented by Millbrook Resort to currently lead the Order of Merit. On the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia he recently claimed a win at the ISPS HANDA Japan-Australasia Championship to wrap up the 2025/26 Order of Merit crown on that tour after a victory and two other recent top-fives. The Order of Merit title secures Smyth a place in The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in July, as well as a card on the DP World Tour in 2027.
• Fellow Australian Lucas Herbert, who plays for Ripper GC on the LIV Golf League, started his 2026 season with three straight top-10’s on the LIV Golf League as well as a runner-up in the New Zealand Open presented by Millbrook Resort. He is a one-time winner on the Asian Tour after taking the title at last year’s International Series Japan. He has also won three times on the DP World Tour and once on the PGA Tour.
• Peter Uihlein from the U.S. is a two-time winner on the Asian Tour, having won the International Series England and International Series Qatar, both in 2024. He plays on the LIV Golf League for the Range Goats GC and started this year well, finishing third and T3 in the first two events in Riyadh and Adelaide.
• Thailand’s Pavit Tangkamolprasert, currently in second place on the Order of Merit, has started his 2026 campaign in fine form after a T2 in the International Series Japan after a final round 62, and a runner-up at the season opening Philippine Golf Championship. He also has an early season T2 on the All Thailand Tour after a playoff loss to compatriot Danthai Boonma.
• Former amateur standout Josele Ballester from Spain won his maiden Asian Tour and professional title at the PIF Saudi International powered by Softbank Investment Advisers late last year in Riyadh. Playing for the Fireballs GC on the LIV Golf League he posted a T6 at the recent LIV Singapore, also played at Sentosa’s Serapong course, last month. His good form continued last week at LIV Mexico City where he finished third, behind only the winner Jon Rahm and his team mate and countryman David Puig of Fireballs GC. He is the second highest ranked player on the OWGR at number 146. During his successful amateur career he won the 2020 Spanish Amateur, 2023 European Amateur and 2024 U.S. Amateur. He was also a team-mate of Singaporean James Leow at the University of Arizona. Leow is also playing this week.
• American Austen Truslow has been in good form since the beginning of the season, recording a T4 in the International Series Japan and a T9 at the Philippine Golf Championship. He also claimed the The Quinovic New Zealand PGA Championship on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia in February.
• Sadom Kaewkanjana from Thailand is the last player to have won the Singapore Open on Sentosa’s Serapong course. His three-shot victory on 13-under-par (271) earned him a start at the Open Championship at St. Andrews via the OQS, where he finished T11 for the best result by a Thai in this Major.
• Previous winners of the Singapore Open in the field this week: Sadom Kaewkanjana (2022), Jazz Janewattananond (2019), Jeev Milkha Singh (2008).
• Major winners who have won the Singapore Open at Sentosa: Sergio Garcia (2018), Adam Scott (2010, 2006, 2005), Angel Cabrera (2007).
• This will be the 15^th time Sentosa Golf Club has hosted the Singapore Open, previously it was the site of 14 consecutive editions of the tournament between 2005 and 2022.
• 12 Singaporeans are competing this week, led by Nicklaus Chiam and James Leow – both winners recently on the Asian Development Tour.

Pictures by Graham Uden/Asian Tour.