Ballantine's Championship
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The Ballantine's Championship (known as The Championship at Laguna National in its final year) was a European Tour golf tournament which was played from 2008 to 2014. It was the first European Tour event to be staged in South Korea.
From 2008 to 2010, the tournament was played at Pinx Golf Club on the island of Jeju. From 2011 to 2013, the tournament was played at Blackstone Golf Club. In 2014, the event has moved to Laguna National Golf & CC in Singapore and titled as The Championship at Laguna National.
The tournament was announced in July 2007 by the European Tour in partnership with the Korean PGA, marking a continuation of the European Tour's expansion into Asia. The Asian Tour, which had not been offered the co-sanctioning rights to which it felt it was entitled, responded by calling the event an "invasive" action that "colonised" Asia in "blatant disregard" of the "principles of the International Federation of PGA Tours", but six months later it agreed terms to co-sanction the event. The prize fund in the first year was €2 million (circa US$2.9 million).
Winners
| Year | Tours | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Championship at Laguna National | ||||||
| 2014 | ASA, EUR | Chile Felipe Aguilar | 266 | −22 | 1 stroke | Denmark Anders Hansen United States David Lipsky |
| Ballantine's Championship | ||||||
| 2013 | ASA, EUR, KOR | Australia Brett Rumford | 277 | −11 | Playoff | Australia Marcus Fraser Scotland Peter Whiteford |
| 2012 | ASA, EUR, KOR | Austria Bernd Wiesberger | 270 | −18 | 5 strokes | Scotland Richie Ramsay |
| 2011 | ASA, EUR, KOR | England Lee Westwood | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Spain Miguel Ángel Jiménez |
| 2010 | ASA, EUR, KOR | Australia Marcus Fraser | 204 | −12 | 4 strokes | Northern Ireland Gareth Maybin Australia Brett Rumford |
| 2009 | ASA, EUR, KOR | Thailand Thongchai Jaidee | 284 | −4 | Playoff | Spain Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño South Korea Kang Sung-hoon |
| 2008 | ASA, EUR, KOR | Northern Ireland Graeme McDowell | 264 | −24 | Playoff | India Jeev Milkha Singh |