European Tour: What to Watch at the Maybank Championship

European Tour fans will be keeping an eye on the Maybank Championship in Malaysia this week.

European Tour players leave Dubai and  jet to four continents in the next four weeks (one event being a World Golf Championship in Mexico). Malaysia is the Tour’s next stop, reaffirming its status as a tour stretching well beyond its nominal European borders.

The airfare miles on European Tour players’ and caddies will begin to rack up with this week’s stop in Kuala Lumpur, Malysia. Last year Marcus Fraser (-15) edged out Miguel Tabuena and Soomin Lee by two strokes to win the current iteration of the tournament’s inaugural running in 2016.

Before 2016, Malaysia played host to the Maybank Malaysian Open, a decades-old event on Tour.

Several major champions and top-50 golfers are in the field at a tournament where tournament organizers promise the golf is just the beginning of the entertainment on site under the umbrella of “golf like never before.”

This week’s venue has hosted European Tour events in the past, including one golfer who has fond memories teeing it up in the nation’s capital two decades ago.

Forecasts hint at a possible hot, but rainy weekend of golf in what is Malaysia’s northeast monsoon season. It could lead to a crazy finish down the stretch.

Here’s a look at what to watch at Saujana Golf and Country Club: