Philippine Masters

ICTSI Villamor Philippine Masters
Tournament information
LocationPasay, Philippines
Established1976
Course(s)Villamor Air Base Golf Club
Par72
Tour(s)Asia Golf Circuit
Philippine Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund2,000,000
Month playedMay
Tournament record score
Aggregate277 Ben Arda (1976)
To par−11 as above
Current champion
Philippines Angelo Que
Location map
Villamor Air Base GC is located in Philippines
Villamor Air Base GC
Villamor Air Base GC
Location in the Philippines

The Philippine Masters is a professional golf tournament in the Philippines. First played as the Philippine Masters Invitational in 1976 over the golf course at Nichols Air Base (now Villamor Air Base) in Pasay, to the south of Manila, it was scheduled the week before the first event of the Asia Golf Circuit calendar, and as such was considered an unofficial season opener or warm-up event for the tour.[1][2]

In the late 1990s, it became a full event on the Asia Golf Circuit but when the tour ended, the Philippine Masters soon followed. After 2000, it was not staged again until it was revived in 2017 as an event on the local Philippine Golf Tour.[3]

  1. ^ "77 for PI Masters". New Nation. Singapore. 11 February 1976. p. 16. Retrieved 22 May 2020 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  2. ^ "'Mighty Mouse' seeks hattrick". New Nation. Singapore. 9 February 1978. p. 17. Retrieved 22 May 2020 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  3. ^ Besa, Mike (20 May 2017). "Home of the Philippine Masters". Business Mirror. Retrieved 21 May 2020.