CORONAVIRUS IMPACT
The Emirates Golf Federation (EGF) hosted each the Asia-Pacific Beginner Championship (AAC) and the Girls’s Beginner Asia-Pacific Championship (WAAP) over the past two weeks.
Week one at Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Membership, organized by Augusta Nationwide together with The R&A and Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC), noticed 93 male gamers from the Asia-Pacific area take part on this 72 gap occasion that was being performed for the 12th event.
EGF Board Members, Workers, and Representatives with 2021 AAC Championship Keita Nakajima of Japan
Keita Nakajima (Japan), 21 years outdated and males’s World No. 1 within the WAGR, grew to become the third participant from Japan to win the Asia-Pacific Beginner Championship, defeating Taichi Kho (Hong Kong) on the second gap of an exhilarating playoff on gap 18, after tying on 14 below par. With this win Nakajima obtained an invite to the Masters Match in 2022, thus making his dream of taking part in a observe spherical at Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership with the reigning Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama come true, in addition to an exemption into The one hundred and fiftieth Open at St Andrews, Scotland.
The UAE was represented by Rashed El Emadi, Khalifa Al Masaood, Khalid Yousuf, and Ahmad Skaik. It was Skaik who made the 36-hole minimize with rounds of 69, 71, 77, 71, to complete a formidable tied 42nd.
H.E. Sheikh Fahim, Chairman of the Emirates Golf Federation, mentioned of Skaik’s efficiency, “Ahmad is a really devoted golfer, and we’re so pleased with his efficiency this week, by being solely the second Emirati to make the minimize within the AAC.”
The second week in Abu Dhabi noticed the ladies take heart stage at Abu Dhabi Golf Membership over the Nationwide Course.
EGF Board Members and Workers with 2021 WAAP Champion Mizuki Hashimoto of Japan
The WAAP has been developed by The R&A and APGC to unearth rising expertise and supply a pathway for Asia’s elite feminine amateurs to the worldwide stage and was held for simply the third time in 2021 following a 12 months off for each Asia-Pacific occasions as a result of Covid-19 restrictions.
78 gamers from 16 nations noticed Girls’s WAGR quantity 121 Mizuki Hashimoto (Japan) shoot 4 rounds of 4 below par 68 to win by one shot from runners-up Natthakritta Vongtaveelap (Thai), Kan Bunnabodee (Thai), and Kelsey Bennett (Aus) with Bunnabodee having the perfect remaining spherical 66 to go together with her course file 64 in spherical 2.
Hashimoto, by advantage of this victory, earns invites to play in two main championships; The 2022 AIG Girls’s Open and The 2022 Amundi Evian Championship, the 2022 Hana Monetary Group Championship in addition to an exemption for the 2022 Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner.
Native UAE primarily based participant, 17-year-old Natalii Gupta, born and raised in Dubai, who takes classes with Jamie McConnell on the CH3 Golf Academy at The Els Membership Dubai, shot a four-round whole of 282, 6 below par, to complete a creditable tied 13th over the course arrange at nearly 6,500 yards.
Different gamers to characterize the UAE who didn’t make the minimize have been: Hamda Al Suwaidi, Alia Al Emadi and Cheryl Hannah Alan.
Natalii mentioned on the conclusion of her remaining spherical, “I had a blast this week. It was a lot enjoyable. I’m grateful to be right here and to be given this chance to play. It was not the perfect end right this moment however I had enjoyable. I’ve by no means performed an occasion that’s this essential and of this class. It was fairly good to see the requirements. However I hit my purpose this week.”
Mr. Adel Zarouni, Vice Chairman of the EGF mentioned, “During the last two weeks we’ve got hosted the highest governing our bodies of golf and together with these two prestigious main novice golf occasions within the UAE. It was particularly gratifying to see representatives from the UAE, Ahmad and Natalii make their respective cuts and carry out so nicely in such spectacular worldwide competitors. We hope to be invited to host extra occasions like these sooner or later and to supply taking part in alternatives for our elite UAE Nationwide golfers and UAE residents.”
Each occasions have been proven dwell on TV around the globe with the next areas receiving broadcast protection; Europe, Center East, and Africa, Asia Pacific, Australasia, North, and Latin America.