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2014 First Leg of the Open Division and Ladies Division
Finished with Good Results
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HKPGA Honorary President - Yau Chi Ming (M) presenting prizes to the 1st Runner-up - Timothy Tang (L) and Shinichi Mizuno (R) |
The First Leg of the Open Division and the Ladies Division of the HKPGA 2014 season kicked started with very good results. The First Leg was held on 17 and 18 of March 2014 at the North Course of HKJC Kau Sai Chau Public Golf Course. A total of 63 players including a few from the Senior Division of HKPGA and elites of HKGA joined the Open Division competition while the Ladies Division had 11 competitors.
After the cold weather during the Ageas HKPGA Championship in January this year, players enjoyed a very superb Spring weather this time. Even better, the usual windy condition of Kau Sai Chau seemed to have given way for the competition!
The results of the first day were quite encouraging. Six players finished the round with under par. Chris Tang , Lokky Lee, and leader of the 2013 Order of Merit, James Stewart, amateur player Shinichi Mizuno all tied at the fourth place with 71 (-1). Both James Wong and Timothy Tang, the silver medalist of the National Games of PRC, who have recently been granted with subsidy from the HK Sports Institute, led the rest with 69 (-3) and 68 (-4) respectively.
For the Ladies Division, Barbara Wong finished the first round strongly. Newly joined member, Jolia Lo followed second. And leader of the 2013 Order of Merit, Vicki Ho kept the third place into the final round.
At the dawn of the final round, Kau Sai Chau was masked under the spring fog. The Tournament Director decided to postpone the first tee for 50 minutes. Though with worries, players could only wait patiently and kept warming up. Finally, the first group of the final round fired their drivers after the announced postponement. With a very close finishing of round one, players of the last few groups all had good chance to win. James Wong with only one stroke behind said before his tee time, “I didn’t think much…I had played with Tim quite often in matches in the last few years. I will play as usual and the result would be depended on who could catch chances to play well.”
After 4 long hours, Dominique Boulet, KY Cheng, MK Tang all finished at 71 (-1) and advanced to a higher ranking in the Order. James Stewart finished with 2 under par at 70 and waiting the results of others at the club house.
For the leading group, James Wong, Timothy Tang and Shinichi Mizuno had put up a good show. James said, “On the whole, the competition in the Order of Merit was very keen in the past few years. As you can see, James Stewart has returned to his top form, Timothy Tang is playing better and better, and of course, Shinichi also played extremely well, the competition is at a very top level of playing.”
The turning point of the final group happened at a 305 yards par 4. Two strategies could be used in playing this hole, players can choose to drive the ball into the fairway and play a safe second shot to the uphill platform green or to attempt driving the ball over hazard to land directly onto the green. Both James Wong and Shinichi Mizuno chose to lay-up yet Timothy Tang tried to have one on. It was so misfortune that Tim ended up with a double-boggy for this hole. James Wong turned to have one stroke lead. Finally, James Wong touched base safely with a 139 (-5) (69 and 70) to won the first leg. Both Timothy Tang and Shinichi Mizuno finished at 140 tied at second. James Stewart and KY Cheng ranked the Fourth and Fifth respectively.
Pony Leung of the Ladies Division withdrew from the round after triggered old injury. And Barbara Wong kept her strong leading and won the First Leg. Jolia Lo, the first time young player, played superbly well to get the second place and Vicki Ho ranked the third.
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Winner of Ladies Division - Barbara Wong receiving prize from Yau Chi Ming |
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Venue: The Jockey Club Kau Sai Chau Public Golf Course, Hong Kong Golf Club and Clearwater Bay Golf Club
Date: 13th-15th January 2015
POS | PLAYERS | R1 | R2 | R3 | TOTAL | |
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1 |
UNHO PARK | 74 | 68 | 64 | 206 |
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2 |
SCOTT BARR | 75 | 68 | 67 | 210 |
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3 |
CHAN CHUN HUNG | 74 | 68 | 69 | 211 |
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T4 |
C J GATTO | 74 | 73 | 70 | 217 |
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T4 |
TANG TSZ HANG | 75 | 70 | 72 | 217 |
2015 HKPGA Order Of Merit - 1st Leg
(Open Division and Ladies Division)
Venue: The Jockey Club Kau Sai Chau Public Golf Course
Date: 30th-31st March 2015
1 |
STEWART JAMES |
139 |
2 |
CHAU PUI |
141 |
3 |
BOULET DOMINIQUE |
148 |
T4 |
TANG TSZ HANG |
149 |
T4 |
CHOY WILSON |
149 |
T6 |
LAM ISAAC* |
150 |
T6 |
KU YU |
150 |
8 |
MA KAM FAT |
151 |
9 |
WONG WOON MAN |
152 |
Amateur*
2015 HKPGA Order Of Merit - 1st Leg (Senior Div.)
Venue: Yinli Foreign Investors Golf Club
Date : 2nd-3rd March 2015
1 |
TANG MAN KEE |
154 |
2 |
TANG SHU WING |
156 |
3 |
SUNG SING
|
158 |
4 |
LEE YING TUNG |
162 |
5 |
KAN KING YAU |
163 |
6 |
LIU PING KWONG |
164 |
T7 |
SO SEK MAN |
165 |
T7 |
LEE WING MING |
165 |
T7 |
WONG CHING KWAN
|
165 |
T10 |
YIP ON WAH |
166 |
T10 |
MORALES ALFREDO |
166 |
T10 |
YAU CHI MING |
166 |