Fifteen years after its previous co-sanctioned era ended, Singapore’s national Open is returning to a two-tour platform — with Sentosa at the centre of the new arrangement.

For the first time since 2012, the Singapore Open will again sit on both the DP World Tour and Asian Tour schedules. The 2027 Deutsche Bank Singapore Open is set for 15–18 April on The Serapong at Sentosa Golf Club, restoring a joint-sanctioned status that gives the announcement more sporting weight than a change of title sponsor alone.

That matters because this is familiar territory for both the event and the venue. The Singapore Open first arrived at The Serapong on the Asian Tour in 2005, when Adam Scott won the first of his three titles, before the tournament entered a co-sanctioned run with the European Tour and Asian Tour from 2009 to 2012.

Now that structure is coming back.

The Singapore Open returns to joint-tour status

The 2027 edition will be one of the select events jointly sanctioned by the DP World Tour and Asian Tour under the wider partnership involving those tours and the PGA TOUR.

For players, the arrangement has consequences beyond a single week in Singapore. The broader agreement is intended to create commercial and playing opportunities, including pathways for leading Asian Tour members to gain playing rights from the 2027 DP World Tour season.

DP World Tour chief executive Guy Kinnings described the tournament as “an important milestone in our new tri-partite partnership with the Asian Tour and the PGA TOUR.”

That places the Singapore Open near the front of a new phase in relations between the tours, rather than simply reviving an old date on the calendar.

Why The Serapong remains central to the event

Sentosa and the Singapore Open have been tied together for two decades. Cho Minn Thant, Commissioner and CEO of the Asian Tour, put it plainly: “Sentosa Golf Club and the Singapore Open are inextricably linked.”

The venue has hardly been short of tournament golf. Sentosa staged three championships across an eight-week period earlier in 2026, including the Singapore Open, reinforcing the club’s role as a regular stop for elite competition in Asia.

Its operating model is part of that story. Sentosa describes its Tournament Ready 365 agronomy philosophy as a way of maintaining championship conditions throughout the year, alongside a sustainability programme intended to make that standard of course preparation more responsible.

For a venue asked to host high-level golf repeatedly rather than once in a season, that year-round readiness is more than a branding exercise. It is the practical requirement behind the calendar.

Deutsche Bank returns to top-level golf sponsorship

Deutsche Bank will take the title role for the 2027 event, marking its return to top-level tournament sponsorship after previously backing individual events on both the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour.

The commercial significance is obvious: a national Open with two tours attached to it is a larger proposition than the event has been in recent years. Kinnings said Deutsche Bank’s investment would “provide the foundation to grow this historic national Open, enhance the experience on and off the course, and maximise the economic impact of the event for many years to come.”

Deutsche Bank Management Board member Claudio de Sanctis said the partnership was designed to bring leading international golf talent to Asia while reinforcing the bank’s commitment to Singapore.

Sentosa gets a bigger stage again

The Singapore Open returned to the Asian Tour schedule in 2025 after a two-year absence and returned to Sentosa in 2026. The next step is more substantial: from 15–18 April 2027, it becomes a DP World Tour and Asian Tour event again.

For golfers who remember the tournament’s 2009–2012 co-sanctioned years, there is an obvious sense of continuity. For the tours, it is also a working example of how their new relationship is supposed to look — shared events, clearer pathways and stronger commercial backing.

Sentosa already had the course and the tournament history. In 2027, the Singapore Open gets the wider competitive platform to match.