Notable past winners include world number one golfers Vijay Singh and Lee Westwood (both players winning the event on two occasions).

Other notable winners include 17-year-old Italian Matteo Manassero in 2011 as well as former Open champion Louis Oosthuizen the following year.

PGA Tour winners including Harold Henning, Jeff Maggert, Glen Day, Steve Flesch, Arjun Atwal and Noh Seung-yul have also won the event.

It was played as a sole-sanctioned Asian Tour event at Kota Permai Golf & Country Club.

It was the final event played before the 2020–21–22 Asian Tour season was heavily disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.