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Johnnie Walker Classic

Field	Value
name	Johnnie Walker Classic
location	Perth, Australia
establishment	1990
course	The Vines
par	72
yardage	7103 yd
tour	European Tour
PGA Tour of Australasia
Asian Tour
format	Stroke play
purse
month_played	February
final_year	2009
aggregate	259 Ernie Els (2003)
to-par	−29 as above
final_champion	NZL Danny Lee
map	Australia#Western Australia
map_label	The Vines
map_caption	Location in Australia##Location in Western Australia
map_relief	yes
map_size	200px
coordinates

PGA Tour of Australasia Asian Tour | to-par = −29 as above The Johnnie Walker Classic was a European Tour golf tournament which was played in the Asia-Pacific region. Johnnie Walker is a brand name and the owners have a long history of tournament sponsorship. They also sponsored the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles which was a European Tour event played in Scotland.

The event was originally called the Johnnie Walker Asian Classic. There was a tournament already called the Johnnie Walker Classic in Australia, but when that event ceased in 1992, the word Asian was dropped from the name.

History

In 1989 Johnnie Walker sponsored the Hong Kong Open, and it was decided to establish an additional tournament which it would sponsor on an ongoing basis. This tournament was called the Johnnie Walker Asian Classic, and was first staged in Hong Kong in 1990. It later evolved into a traveling event that was primarily utilized by its sponsor as a marketing strategy in the Asia Pacific region. In 1992 it became the first event to be sanctioned by the European Tour in East Asia (the Dubai Desert Classic was the first in Asia as a whole).

In 1993 the word Asian was dropped from the title. In 2005 the tournament was held in China for the first time, as part of the European Tour's push into China, which saw four events held in mainland China and one in Hong Kong in the 2005 season. The location of the tournament changes every year.

The tournament was co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour of Australasia from 1996, and by the Asian Tour from 1999.

In 2005 the tri-sanctioned event had a field consisting of 60 European Tour players, 60 Asian Tour players, 28 PGA Tour of Australasia players, and 8 sponsors' invitees. The prize fund was £1,250,000. This amount is large by Asian and Australasian Tour standards, but not by European Tour or PGA Tour standards. However the tournament attracts a number of the World's leading players each year by paying them large appearance fees.

Nine of the first fourteen editions were won by players who have topped the Official World Golf Ranking at some point in their career (Faldo, Els and Woods twice each; Woosnam, Norman and Couples once each).

Winners

Year	Tour(s)	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of
victory	Runner(s)-up	Venue	Johnnie Walker Classic	Johnnie Walker Asian Classic
2009	ANZ, ASA, EUR	NZL Danny Lee (a)	271	−17	1 stroke	CHL Felipe Aguilar
JPN Hiroyuki Fujita
ENG Ross McGowan	The Vines, Australia
2008	ANZ, ASA, EUR	NZL Mark Brown	270	−18	3 strokes	AUS Greg Chalmers
JPN Taichiro Kiyota
AUS Scott Strange	DLF, India
2007	ANZ, ASA, EUR	ZAF Anton Haig	275	−13	Playoff	ZAF Richard Sterne
ENG Oliver Wilson	Blue Canyon, Thailand
2006	ANZ, ASA, EUR	USA Kevin Stadler	268	−20	2 strokes	AUS Nick O'Hern	The Vines, Australia
2005	ANZ, ASA, EUR	AUS Adam Scott	270	−18	3 strokes	ZAF Retief Goosen	Pine Valley, China
2004	ANZ, ASA, EUR	ESP Miguel Ángel Jiménez	271	−17	2 strokes	DNK Thomas Bjørn
IND Jyoti Randhawa	Alpine Golf, Thailand
2003	ANZ, ASA, EUR	ZAF Ernie Els (2)	259	−29	10 strokes	AUS Stephen Leaney
AUS Andre Stolz	Lake Karrinyup, Australia
2002	ANZ, ASA, EUR	ZAF Retief Goosen	274	−14	8 strokes	SWE Pierre Fulke	Lake Karrinyup, Australia
2001: No tournament due to rescheduling from November to January
2000	ANZ, ASA, EUR	USA Tiger Woods (2)	263	−25	3 strokes	AUS Geoff Ogilvy	Alpine Golf, Thailand
1999	ANZ, ASA, EUR	NZL Michael Campbell	276	−12	1 stroke	AUS Geoff Ogilvy	Tashee, Taiwan
1998	ANZ, EUR	USA Tiger Woods	279	−9	Playoff	ZAF Ernie Els	Blue Canyon, Thailand
1997	ANZ, EUR	ZAF Ernie Els	278	−10	1 stroke	AUS Peter Lonard
NZL Michael Long	Hope Island, Australia
1996	ANZ, EUR	WAL Ian Woosnam	272	−16	Playoff	SCO Andrew Coltart	Tanah Merah, Singapore
1995	EUR	USA Fred Couples	277	−11	2 strokes	ZWE Nick Price	The Orchard, Philippines
1994	EUR	AUS Greg Norman	277	−11	1 stroke	USA Fred Couples	Blue Canyon, Thailand
1993	EUR	ENG Nick Faldo	269	−11	1 stroke	SCO Colin Montgomerie	Singapore Island, Singapore
1992	EUR	ZAF Ian Palmer	268	−20	1 stroke	DEU Bernhard Langer
AUS Brett Ogle
NIR Ronan Rafferty	Pinehurst, Thailand
1991: No tournament
1990		ENG Nick Faldo	270	−14	4 strokes	WAL Ian Woosnam	Royal Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Notes

References

Stone, Peter. (10 May 1995). "Move to a global tour revealed". The Sydney Morning Herald.
Happell, Charles. (10 November 1999). "Australians get a chance to topple Tiger". The Age.

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