Tournament Information

• Tournament: SJM Macao Open
• Date: October 10-13, 2024
• Venue: Macau Golf & Country Club, Macau
• Par/Yards: Par 70 / 6,750 Yards
• Purse: US$1million
• Asian Tour leg: 14^th event of 2024 season
• Edition of tournament: 21^st
• 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: #TimeToRise #SJMMacaoOpen

Min Woo Lee. Picture by Paul Lakatos/IMG.

Field Breakdown

• Order of Merit winners: Sihwan Kim (2022), Jazz Janewattananond (2019), Scott Hend (2016)
• Nationalities: 24
• Past winners of tournament in the field: Min Woo Lee (2023), Gaganjeet Bhullar (2017, 2012), Pavit Tangkamolprasert (2016), Scott Hend (2015, 2013), Jason Knutzon (2004), Zhang Lianwei (2001, 2002)
• Defending champion: Min Woo Lee (AUS)
• Top contenders: Min Woo Lee (AUS), Brian Harman (USA), John Catlin (USA), Pavit Tangkamolprasert (THA), Jbe Kruger (RSA)
• Highest ranked player on OWGR: Brian Harman #23
• Highest ranked player on 2024 Asian Tour Order of Merit: John Catlin (USA) #1
• Number of amateurs: 3
• Number of Macau players in the field: 3

A general view of the 18th hospitality pictured during an official practice round on Tuesday October 8, 2024 ahead of the SJM Macao Open at the Macau Golf & Country Club. Picture by Paul Lakatos/IMG.

Tournament Notes

• Defending champion Min Woo Lee of Australia represented the International squad at the Presidents Cup in Montreal two weeks ago, posting one tie and one loss in two appearances. The 26-year-old set an incredible scoring record at the SJM Macao Open last year, posting 30 under par on the Macau Golf and Country Club layout to beat Thailand’s Poom Saksansin by two strokes. Lee is a PGA Tour regular and finished 60^th in this year’s FedEx Cup after two T2 finishes in the Rocket Mortgage Classic and the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches.
• The 2023 Open Championship winner Brian Harman also played in this year’s Presidents Cup and was part of the winning U.S. team. The 37-year-old American finished 31^st in the FedEx Cup this season, posting a T2 at the Players Championship, a T5 at The Sentry and a T9 at the Travelers Championship as his best results. Harman, who will be making his debut in the SJM Macao Open, is a three-time winner on the PGA Tour and was part of the 2023 U.S. Ryder Cup team.
• Order of Merit leader John Catlin is already a winner at Macau Golf and Country Club this season, having captured the International Series Macau in March after firing a 59 in the third round and beating Spaniard David Puig in a playoff. The 33-year-old American would follow it up with another win at the very next event, the Saudi Open presented by PIF in April. In his last Asian Tour event, the Yeander TPC two weeks ago, Catlin finished runner-up after a close battle with eventual winner Suteepat Prateeptienchai from Thailand. He also posted a runner up in the International Series Morocco in July after losing a playoff to eventual winner Ben Campbell. A tied third finish in the season opening IRS Prima Malaysian Open secured him a spot in the 152nd Open Championship where he finished tied 16th for his best result in a major.
• Thailand’s Pavit Tangkamolprasert won the SJM Macao Open in 2016 for his first Asian Tour title and is coming into this week in great form. In the last two weeks Asian Tour events, the Yeangder TPC and the Mercuries Taiwan Masters, the 35-year-old finished fifth and T2 respectively and has gone from 64^th to 18^th on the Order of Merit and easily securing his card for next year.
• South African Jbe Kruger picked up his third Asian Tour title, and first one since 2019, at the weather shortened Mercuries Taiwan Masters with a two-stroke victory over Korean Jeunghun Wang last week. The 38-year-old had only posted one top 10 finish on the Asian Tour previously this season, a T10 at the International Series Macau Presented by Wynn, but the win in Taiwan last week boosted him into 10^th on the Order of Merit from 69^th. Wang is also competing.