The President Challenge Trophies 2011

Coming up in the Malaysian golf scene is the President Challenge 2011 which will pit golfers from the Peninsular and East Malaysia up against each other. 2 teams will be formed between the golfers of each part of the country to find the better among them. This team event is a widely anticipated tournament among the Malaysian golfers where there will be 2 trophies up for the challenge with the Thomas Lee Trophy for the Men’s category and the Ladies’ event will be competing for the Robin Loh Trophy.
The tournament is scheduled to be held from May 23 to 24, 2011 at A' Famosa Golf Resort, Melaka. This is also the venue of the Malaysian Amateur Golf Championship this year.

The President’s Challenge was the brainchild of YBhg Dato Thomas M.L. Lee who was a former President of Malaysian Golf Association. He came up with the idea in 2003 where he thought that such a tournament would be healthy and good in bridging better ties and relationships between aspiring golfers from the east and west of Malaysia. He donated the trophy which was named after him. Ybhg Datuk Robin Loh, the current president of MGA then extended the tournament to include the Ladies where he donated a trophy thereby calling it the Robin Loh Trophy. This category started in 2009.

The Challenge is held on an annual basis where it rotates around the country. In 2003, it was held in Tiara Melaka GCC while Sarawak Golf Club hosted the event a year later. It then moved to Sabah at Sutera Harbour GCC before going over to Orna Golf & Country Club. 2007 saw the tournament heading back to Sarawak Golf Club and then it was off to neighbours Nexus Karambunai Golf Resort a year later. 2010’s edition was at Kelab Golf Sarawak and this year it comes to the peninsular at A’Famosa.

The tournament would be played between 2 teams (one from Peninsular and one from East Malaysia) which will have 8 male and 8 female players each. In the team, 2 of each team must be junior golfers who are below 18 years of age.