The HSBC Women’s Champions is here again, teeing off on 27 February. The event will run till 2 March at the Sentosa Golf Club for the seventh year this year, featuring a whopping US$1.4 million in prize winnings.
One of the competitor in intense concentration
Crowd streaming in
Entertainment area
Scoreboard at the golf course
The scores so far at the leaderboard
Close-up
Following Saturday’s competition, Australian golfer, Karrie Webb, who won the HSBC Women’s Champions in 2011, is out to win the event again. At eleven under par, she is one ahead of Angela Stanford, the 2012 champion, and three clear of a couple of up-and-coming players in Azahara Munoz and Teresa Lu.
More details, including the live leaderboard and video highlights are available on the official website.
Golfers teeing off
The scores when I was there
I was at Sentosa Golf Club yesterday to experience the event myself. The weather was sweltering hot, but lots of golf enthusiasts of all ages braved the heat and were seen enjoying themselves, having a good time at the event.
Braving the heat
For selected, premier HSBC customers, they have a special HSBC Hexagon Suite boxed area with a bird’s eye view of the competition grounds.
HSBC Hexagon Suite
Side view
The lucky HSBC customers with the best views
Another reason to bank with HSBC for golfing enthusiasts!
For casual golfers, newbies and spectators, HSBC has an experience area for everyone. There are training gazebos:
Training tents behind the official car, Jaguar
Someone practising
Rest and relax
Other booths
And there is the HSBC Ultimate Bunker Challenge which attracted a long queue:
Can you do a hole-in-one in a bunker like this?
Long queue! Are you game enough for this?
This looks really challenging don’t you think?
Even a newbie like me was tempted to try it out!
Fancy yourself scoring a hole-in-one for the HSBC Ultimate Bunker Challenge?
Get your tickets and head down to Sentosa Golf Club now! 
