Strong field gathered at Sentosa this week. Amongst of them were 3 World top ranking players. They checked out this year's course settings on 15thTuesday and sat down for the press conference afterwards.

Defending Champion Sergio Garcia, World ranking 24th Paul Casey, and Matthew Fitzpatrick who is still 24 years old but very impressive young gun smiled for the photo session. Matthew is a first timer to the Japanese Tour, but he has won 5 times already on EPGA Tour and is ranked World's 40th now.

Paul Casey has won on the Asian and EPGA Tour joint hosted tournament, but this his first time to play in Singapore. He has been on the USPGA Tour tournaments for the past 2 weeks, and ready to win. Paul took a good look at the trophy and smiled saying "It's time to gear up! I am looking forward for the tournament".

On the other hand, Defending Champion Sergio faces his first tournament of this year. He has enjoyed few weeks off and said "I might be little rusty" with a grin. We are pretty sure that Singapore's great weather will smooth out rust fast enough.
"I really like the course. It is exciting to start out the season here", said Sergio who seems to be on the hunt for the consecutive win.

This will be start for the Japan Tour season 2019, and many rules and regulation changes has been made by the R&A and USGA. Some rule changes are benefitable, but players must be on alert not to make a foolish mistake.
"We must get used to it quickly" warns Sergio.

Studies on the rules and regulation changes is a must preparation this week.