They also sponsored the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles which was a European Tour event played in Scotland.

There was a tournament already called the Johnnie Walker Classic in Australia, but when that event ceased in 1992, the word Asian was dropped from the name.

It later evolved into a traveling event that was primarily utilized by its sponsor as a marketing strategy in the Asia Pacific region.

However the tournament attracts a number of the World's leading players each year by paying them large appearance fees.

Nine of the first fourteen editions were won by players who have topped the Official World Golf Ranking at some point in their career (Faldo, Els and Woods twice each; Woosnam, Norman and Couples once each).