Tournament Information

• Tournament: Taiwan Glass Taifong Open
• Date: November 14-17, 2024
• Venue: Taifong Golf Club
• Par/Yards: Par 72 / 7,302 Yards
• Purse: US$400,000 (first place US$72,000)
• Asian Tour leg: 18th event of the 2024 season
• Edition of tournament: Second (Asian Development Tour event 2014-2019 and 2022)
• Total number of players: 120
• Format: 72-hole stroke play with a cut made after two rounds to the leading 65 pros plus ties
• Social Media Hashtags: #TimeToRise

Suteepat Prateeptienchai. Picture by Paul Lakatos/Asian Tour.

Field Breakdown

• Nationalities: 21
• Top contenders: Lee Chieh-po (TPE), Suteepat Prateeptienchai (THA), Phachara Khongwatmai (THA), Gunn Charoenkul (THA), Chang Wei-lun (TPE), Chan Shih-chang (TPE)
• Highest ranked player on OWGR: Lee Chieh-po #247
• Highest ranked player on 2024 Asian Tour Order of Merit: Lee Chieh-po #3
• Highest ranked player on 2024 International Series Rankings: Lee Chieh-po #5
• Defending champion: Suteepat Prateeptienchai (THA)
• Number of amateurs in the field: 1
• Number of Chinese Taipei players in the field: 48

Lee Chieh-po. Picture by Paul Lakatos/Asian Tour.

Tournament Notes

• Lee Chieh-po of Chinese Taipei has been in great form since early September, culminating with a victory at the International Series Thailand three weeks ago. Prior to that he finished solo third at the Black Mountain Championship after missing the play-off by only one shot, was fourth at the Yeangder TPC and T9 at the Shinhan Donghae Open, back in September. The week after winning in Thailand he was T8 at the BNI Indonesian Masters. Lee also won the Taifong event in 2021 when it was part of the local tour.
• The defending champion Suteepat Prateeptienchai from Thailand is having a good second half of the season, sitting in seventh place on the Asian Tour Order of Merit after a win the Yeangder TPC in Taipei. He also had a T4 at the recent Black Mountain Championship and a T6 at the Mandiri Indonesia Open in August. Suteepat was joint runner-up in this event in 2022 when it was part of the Asian Development Tour (ADT).
• Thailand’s Phachara Khongwatmai posted his best finish of the year at the BNI Indonesian Masters with a T2 after a final round 64 – his first top 10 since the International Series Macau presented by Wynn in March.
• Fellow Thai player Gunn Charoenkul has been playing very solid golf lately, with a solo second finish at the SJM Macao Open last month. Since then he has posted a T14 at the Black Mountain Masters, a T12 at the International Series Thailand and a T8 at the BNI Indonesian Masters. Gunn, currently in 10^th place on the Order of Merit, is still looking for his first Asian Tour win and would love to rectify that this week.
• Chang Wei-lun from Chinese Taipei finished T2 at the BNI Indonesian Masters to secure his playing rights for next season, in what had otherwise been a forgettable year on the Asian Tour. Chang came close to winning this week’s event twice when it was on the ADT, losing a play-off to American Johannes Veerman in 2016 and finishing T2 in 2019. He has picked up three victories so far this season on the local tour in Chinese Taipei.