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Sentosa Set for Championship Hat-Trick

Published on April 11, 2026
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Sentosa Golf Club’s Serapong Course will stage the Singapore Open this month.

Singapore: Sentosa Golf Club will complete an extraordinary run of elite competition when it hosts the 54th edition of the Singapore Open this month. It will be the third world-class tournament staged at the venue in just eight weeks, further cementing the club’s position as one of global golf’s premier stages.

The club has already staged memorable moments in its own ‘Championship’ season, with Hannah Green lifting the HSBC Women’s World Championship trophy. Bryson DeChambeau then followed with a dramatic play-off victory on The Serapong at Aramco LIV Golf Singapore.

Those performances unfolded on a course that has drawn widespread acclaim from the world’s best players.

Lee Westwood said: “The greens are some of, if not the best, I’ve ever seen, certainly in Asia but anywhere.”

DeChambeau added: “The best I’ve seen it in the past few years being here. Greens are some of the fastest I’ve seen in my entire life, which I love.”

After a four-year hiatus, the Singapore Open returns to a venue synonymous with the championship. Sentosa first hosted the event in 2006 and has staged 14 editions, crowning 11 different champions, with Adam Scott famously winning three times during the Barclays Singapore Open era. Since 1961, the tournament’s roll of honour has included Major champions such as Ángel Cabrera and Sergio García.

García, who won the 2018 Singapore Open, said: “It is a golf course that if you play well, you can score in.” Returning for Aramco LIV Golf Singapore, he added: “This course has been so good throughout the years that it really hasn’t needed much tinkering.”

During the same week, compatriot Jon Rahm said the surfaces were ‘very, very good’ and ‘rolling great’, reinforcing Sentosa’s reputation for delivering a true championship test.

Delivering three professional tournaments in such a condensed window is a rare achievement in global golf, made possible by the club’s unwavering commitment to being tournament-ready 365 days of the year.

Behind the scenes, the agronomy and operations teams play a defining role, preparing and maintaining The Serapong to elite standards while ensuring consistency, playability and presentation under demanding conditions.

This commitment is underpinned by a pioneering approach to the modern game. As the world’s first golf club to sign the UN Sports for Climate Action Initiative in 2020, Sentosa combines modern agronomy with innovative environmental practices, demonstrating that championship conditioning and sustainability can co-exist at the highest level.

Andrew Johnston, General Manager and Director of Agronomy at Sentosa Golf Club, said: “Welcoming the Singapore Open back to Sentosa is a real honour, and we take that responsibility seriously. With three championships in a short window, it takes a co-ordinated effort across agronomy and operations to keep standards where they need to be.

“Our focus is on doing the basics well every day and delivering consistent, tournament-ready conditions 365 days a year, so the course provides a fair, true test for everyone in the field.”

To be held from April 23-26, the Singapore Open is part of The International Series, an elevated set of events on the Asian Tour schedule co-sanctioned by LIV Golf and the Asian Tour.

Singapore is the second of eight currently confirmed stops on The International Series’ 2026 calendar, and the top two players in the season-long Rankings will earn LIV Golf League cards for 2027.

It was recently confirmed by The R&A that the Singapore Open will offer two direct qualification places for The 154th Open, with the event added to The Open Qualifying Series.

*Sentosa Golf Club and The R&A are members of the Asian Golf Industry Federation.

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