Kota Kinabalu: Local sensation Nicholas Fung will bank on local knowledge and a partisan home crowd this week as the ASEAN PGA Tour arrives at the Sutera Harbour Golf & Country Club for the Sabah Masters. The US$60,000 tournament tees off tomorrow and is making a return to the golf calendar for the first time since…
Johor Bahru: A round of two-under 70 helped Wilson Choo to single stroke advantage over amateur Mohd Azman Basharudin and Nicholas Pua after the opening round of the Iskandar Johor Open 2011 National Qualifier at Pulai Springs Resort earlier today. Choo, who has been in the paid ranks for two years, arrived in Johor without any…
Johor Bahru: Rookie Tom Lewis may not be a household name among local golf fans but his remarkable win at the recent Portugal Masters makes him an exciting player to watch at the Iskandar Johor Open 2011. The 20-year-old Englishman, who chalked up his maiden professional win at the Portugal Masters in only his third…
Kuala Lumpur: American Bo Van Pelt was laughing all the way to the bank after romping to a stylish six-shot victory in the US$6.1 million CIMB Asia Pacific Classic, Malaysia on Sunday. The 36-year-old Van Pelt bagged his career’s biggest pay cheque of US$1.3 million as he savoured his first title of the season with…
Kuala Lumpur: It wasn’t the prize money of US$85,000 or the knowledge that he had managed to out-duel some of the top players in the world that left Danny Chia beaming from ear-to-ear. It was the simple fact that no matter how he played, the Malaysian number one just wanted to give himself a chance…
Kuala Lumpur: American Bo Van Pelt overcame a sluggish start to storm into the third round lead at the US$6.1 million CIMB Asia Pacific Classic, Malaysia on a day local hero Danny Chia raised the roof at The Mines Resort and Golf Club. Van Pelt bogeyed his opening two holes but showed his class with…
Seri Kembangan: Danny Chia rose to the occasion today to give himself an outside chance of winning the CIMB Asia Pacific Classic, Malaysia with a flawless third round of five-under 66 in punishing conditions at The MINES Resort & Golf Club. The 39-year-old local hero, playing alongside his childhood idol Vijay Singh, stayed patient…
Kuala Lumpur: The last man who got into the US$6.1 million CIMB Asia Pacific Classic, Malaysia found himself tied for the halfway lead on Friday. American Jeff Overton fired a new course record of nine-under-par 62, also his career low round, to share the second day lead with Sweden’s Fredrik Jacobson at the Mines Resort…
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia’s budding golfers Paul San Weng Yau and Sarfina Vinota Seretharan will join six of their ASEAN contemporaries for an intensive training stint in the hallowed grounds of TPC Sawgrass later this year as part of the final phase of the CIMB Junior Golf Development Programme. This is the second batch of juniors…
Kuala Lumpur: A new strategy and much more relaxed attitude saw Danny Chia charge up the leaderboard of the CIMB Asia Pacific Classic, Malaysia today. Chia carded a splendid second round 65 for a six-under 136 total, to take a share of 13th placing alongside young Thai star Chinnarat Padungsil and three others at the halfway…
