Maybank Championship The European Tour heads for Asia this week and the Maybank Championship at the Saujana G&CC in Kuala Lumpur. Shubhankar Sharma defends his title against a field including past and present Ryder Cup captains Thomas Bjorn and Padraig Harrington. A good field is set to start in the Maybank Championship. Four-time Major Champion Ernie Els is on the start sheet together with the likes of Miguel Angel Jimenez, Thomas Pieters, Andy Sullivan and recent European Tour winners Kurt Kitayama and Guido Migliozzi. This will be only the fourth time this competition has been hosted although Saujana has been a regular stop on the circuit in the past. The club has hosted the Malaysian Open on a number of occasions. The course at Saujana G&CC is an undulating one lined by palm trees that opened for play back in 1986. Scoring tends to be pretty good as evidenced by Sharma’s winning score of 21-under-par last year. Marcus Fraser was the winner of this event in 2016 with Fabrizio Zanotti claiming the victory the following season. In last year’s Maybank Championship Shubhankar Sharma of India produced a scintillating final round of 62 to take his second European Tour title of the 2018 season. Players to watch: Ryan Fox – Recently a winner in the Perth Super 6, Fox was third in this event last year. Jorge Campillo – Another man with good form at Saujana. He was runner-up to Sharma last season. He’s been tied second in his last two outings on the European Tour. David Lipsky – A winner of the Alfred Dunhill Championship in December, the American was runner-up in this event two seasons back.
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