The BMW Masters was a

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

tournament played annually at Lake Malaren Golf Club, in Luodian, Shanghai, China. The tournament began in 2011 and became a

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event in 2012. It was dropped from the European Tour in 2016. In 2011, the tournament was called the Lake Malaren Shanghai Masters. The event had a small field consisting of 30 top players from the

and the

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. The winner received US$2 million, the largest first prize in golf, coming from an overall prize fund of $5 million. In 2012, it became a European Tour event and was renamed the BMW Masters. The field was expanded to 78 players and the purse was increased to US$7 million. From 2013 to 2015, the tournament was part of the European Tour Final Series.

Winners

References

External links

Coverage on the European Tour's official site
Former European Tour events Golf tournaments in China Sports competitions in Shanghai Recurring sporting events established in 2011 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2015 2011 establishments in China 2015 disestablishments in China {{golf-tournament-stub