There may be a 44-year gap between them, but Australia’s Nadene Gole and Vietnam’s Bao Chau Nguyen share a common aim in proving that age is no barrier in golf at the seventh edition of the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific Championship this week.
Defending champion Eila Galitsky of Thailand [above] and last year’s runner-up Korean teenager Minsol Kim, two of world golf’s foremost female prospects, will spearhead a star-studded line-up at the sixth edition of the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific Championship from tomorrow.
The 16-year-old follows in the footsteps of Atthaya Thitikul, who won the inaugural championship in 2018 in Singapore and rose to number one in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings last year.
After almost two years of frustration, Australia’s best amateur golfers will return to elite representative competition at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship and the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific Championship in the United Arab Emirates next month. Twelve of Australia’s best players have been named for the championships in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, which carry the lure of Read more…