The Asian Development Tour (ADT) will make its first stop of the season in Indonesia this year at the BNI Ciputra Golfpreneur Tournament, after organisers confirmed today that the event will be played at Damai Indah Golf, BSD Course, from August 21-24.

The ninth edition of the event, which proudly boasts PGA Tour star Tom Kim as a former winner, will be the sixth leg of the season and offer a purse of US$140,000 – one of the Tour’s most lucrative, and a 12% increase from last year.

Said Ken Kudo, General Manager, ADT: “The BNI Ciputra Golfpreneur Tournament, first held in 2014, is one of the ADT’s anchor events and we are therefore delighted to announce its return this year.

“We thank BNI, the Ciputra Group and Damai Indah Golf, BSD Course, for facilitating the event’s return with a significant increase in prizemoney, and we look forward to another successful staging of the event.”

From a starting field of 144, 91 players from the ADT are exempt for the tournament, along with 40 from the Professional Golf Tour of Indonesia. There will be 13 invites from the promoter.

Last year, India’s Yuvraj Singh Sandhu took advantage of a hot putter to win by four shots. Playing in the penultimate group he posted a brilliant bogey-free final round 65, as his rivals fell by the wayside at Damai Indah Golf, BSD Course – which has hosted every edition of the tournament.

Remarkably, the tournament has been won by a player of a different nationality every year.

Kim beat Singapore’s Mardan Mamat to triumph in 2019, after overcoming a five- shot deficit on the last day. He was just 17 years old at the time, and it was just the second victory of his professional career, having won on the ADT two months earlier.

The other winners are Thailand’s Suteepat Prateeptienchai (2022), Miguel Carballo from Argentina (2018), Japan’s Masaru Takahashi (2017), Swede Oscar Zetterwall (2016), Michael Tran of Vietnam (2015) and Scotland’s James Byrne (2014).

Pakistan’s Ahmad Baig has taken the ADT by storm this year: he currently leads the ADT Order of Merit, thanks to two victories, and will be one of the favourites at the BNI Ciputra Golfpreneur Tournament.

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