Australia wins Asia-Pacific Senior Amateur Championship 2023

Quang Nam Australia won all the cups when the Asia- Pacific Golf Confederation held the tournament for middle-aged and senior male and female golfers in Vietnam for the second time.

The 2023 tournament took place on the par-72 course in Nam Hoi An, ending on November 23. The results recorded the individual and team championships for both genders belonging to Australian representatives, with James Lavender winning the men's bracket with 216 strokes, and compatriot Sue Wooster winning the women's bracket with 219 strokes.

Lavender (second from left) won the men's division of the 2023 Asia-Pacific Senior Amateur Championship. Photo: BTC

The tournament attracted 18 teams, with a total of 120 competitors. The Vietnamese team had 16 men and 12 women, with the two representatives achieving the best individual results being Nguyen Huy Tien (229 strokes) and Nguyen Thi To Uyen (255 strokes). In the group race, Vietnam finished seventh for men and sixth for women.

The Asia-Pacific Senior Amateur Championship is open to men aged 55 and over, and women aged 50 and over. Both sexes are placed in age groups with their respective handicaps, and compete over three rounds of stroke play with no cuts.

The individual champion of each gender, based on the lowest total strokes, will receive a place in the senior tournament of the Royal & Ancient - the organization that, together with the US Golf Association, sets the rules and develops world golf.

The Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation initiated the tournament for middle and senior golfers, men and women, in 2006. In 2013, the event first came to Vietnam, competing at Montgomerie Links, Quang Nam. This year, APGC continues to authorize the organization of the Vietnam Golf Association (VGA).

APGC was born from an amateur tournament between Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan (China) in early 1963. The organization's website currently lists 46 members, including VGA.

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