2009 Results

Korean Changwon Han’s Dream Comes True in China

Date	29 October – 1 November 2009
Venue	World Cup Course, Mission Hills Golf Club, Shenzhen, China
Par	36-36-72
Length	6,539 metres/7,149 yards
Designers	Jack Nicklaus
Opened	1994

Changwon Han of Korea enjoyed the finest moment of his young golfing career when he booked a place at the 2010 Masters Tournament and International Final Qualifying for the 150th anniversary Open Championship at St Andrews with a dominant victory in the inaugural Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in China.

Leading by two shots overnight, the 17-year-old earned a trip to Augusta National by crushing the competition with a final-round 2-under-par 70 at Mission Hills Golf Club’s World Cup Course, located about 90 minutes north of Hong Kong.

Han finished with a 72-hole total of 276 (-12), five shots in front of compatriot and playing partner Eric Chun, who could only manage a 73. Chun would join his countryman in the final qualifying stage for the 2010 Open Championship.

Three players – Korea’s Meenwhee Kim, Peter Spearman-Burn of New Zealand and Jordan Sherratt from Australia – shared third at 282, with Australia’s Matthew Giles sixth, one shot further back at 5-under-par 283.

In an indication of the depth of the field, seven different APGC member nations were represented in the top-10 places at the championship’s conclusion.

Understandably, Han was thrilled with the victory. “I knew I was leading by five or six after the first nine holes, but I was trying not to think about the result.

“Anything can happen in a round of golf and I was very nervous towards the end. I have to admit that it was the thought of playing in the Masters that made me nervous. I had never even thought it would be possible for me to be playing in the Masters as an amateur,” said Han.

Venue Information

The inaugural Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship was held at Mission Hills Golf Club’s World Cup Course in Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen is located in southern China’s Guangdong province, approximately 90 minutes north of Hong Kong.

Weather

No weather delays. Sunny and humid with highs each day reaching approximately 31 degrees Celsius.

POS	NAME	NAT	R1	R2	R3	R4	TOTAL
1	Han Chang-won	KOR	66	69	71	70	-12
2	Eric Chun	KOR	74	68	66	73	-7
T3	Kim Meen-Whee	KOR	75	68	68	71	-6
T3	Peter Spearman-Burn	NZL	69	68	73	72	-6
T3	Jordan Sherratt	AUS	68	67	74	73	-6
6	Matthew Giles	AUS	71	71	73	68	-5
7	Mohd Iszaimi Ismail	MAS	70	72	71	71	-4
T8	Jonathan Woo	SIN	70	74	70	71	-3
T8	Tomoya Tokunaga	JPN	74	72	68	71	-3
10	Judson Eustaquio	PHI	68	76	70	72	-2
T11	Park Il-Hwan	KOR	75	72	71	69	-1
T11	Daniel Nisbet	AUS	72	72	73	70	-1
T11	Jhonnel Ababa	PHI	73	70	73	71	-1
T11	Hu Mu	CHN	72	70	73	72	-1
T11	Zhang Xin-Jun	CHN	77	72	66	72	-1
T11	Keisuke Otawa	JPN	76	68	70	73	-1
T11	Han Ren	CHN	65	78	68	76	-1
T18	Lee Kyoung-Hoon	KOR	74	75	72	67	E
T18	Song Tae-Hoon	KOR	71	69	74	74	E
T18	Rashid Khan	IND	71	69	74	74	E
T18	Yoon Jung-Ho	KOR	70	72	72	74	E
T22	Matt Jager	AUS	72	73	74	70	1
T22	Hung Chien-Yao	TPE	70	72	73	74	1
T22	Hsieh Chi-Hsien	TPE	72	71	70	76	1
T22	Mhark Fernando	PHI	67	71	73	78	1
26	Naoyuki Tamura	JPN	70	74	72	74	2
T27	Zhao Xiongyi	CHN	73	74	73	71	3
T27	Huang Wenyi	CHN	74	67	75	75	3
T27	Yang Fei-Hao	TPE	76	73	67	75	3
T30	Huo Wei	CHN	74	73	73	72	4
T30	Aung Win	MYR	75	71	74	72	4
T30	Steven Lam	HKG	71	70	75	76	4
T30	Wasin Sripattranusorn	THA	71	71	72	78	4
T34	Thanyakon Khrongpa	THA	73	75	74	71	5
T34	Abhishek Jha	IND	79	69	73	72	5
T34	Antonio Asistio	PHI	69	71	79	74	5
T37	Roderic De Lacy Staunton	HKG	71	77	75	71	6
T37	Shingo Ito	JPN	74	73	74	73	6
T37	Huang Tao	TPE	76	72	72	74	6
T40	Brendan Smith	AUS	71	77	71	76	7
T40	Tomohiro Umeyama	JPN	77	69	71	78	7
T42	Shakhawat Shohel	BAN	75	70	77	74	8
T42	Jamal Hossain Mollah	BAN	73	71	77	75	8
T42	Suprato	INA	74	70	76	76	8
T45	Hardjito	INA	71	76	76	74	9
T45	Yosuke Asaji	JPN	74	71	76	76	9
T45	KA Chandradasa	SRI	74	72	75	76	9
T48	Wei Wei	CHN	72	74	75	77	10
T48	Jerome Ng	SIN	73	75	72	78	10
T50	Amrith De Soysa	SRI	73	75	80	72	12
T50	Dante Becierra	PHI	73	74	78	75	12
T50	Vikram Rana	IND	75	74	75	76	12
T50	Poom Saksansin	THA	75	71	75	79	12
T50	Daniel Pearce	NZL	75	71	74	80	12
T55	Mohd Iylia Jamil	MAS	74	75	83	69	13
T55	Kao Teng	TPE	75	74	74	78	13
57	Rattanon Wannasrichan	THA	74	75	76	79	16
58	Chia Chong Zheng	SIN	75	74	79	77	17
59	Thai Duong Nguyen	VIE	72	77	82	78	21
60	Hsu Li-Peng	TPE	71	76	81	84	24
MC	Gagan Verma	IND	76	74
MC	Zheng Ou-Yang	CHN	76	74
MC	Benny Kasiadi	INA	75	75
MC	Zhiqun Lam	SIN	74	76
MC	Ahmed Al Musharrekh	UAE	74	76
MC	Mithun Perera	SRI	77	74
MC	Hak Shun Yat	HKG	76	75
MC	Xiao Se	CHN	75	76
MC	Louie Sunga	GUM	74	77
MC	Dulal Hossain	BAN	71	80
MC	Bryden Macpherson	AUS	79	73
MC	Nicholas Fung	MAS	74	78
MC	Chen Xiao Long	CHN	73	79
MC	Abel Tam	MAS	73	79
MC	Liton Hawlader	BAN	80	73
MC	Arshdeep Tiwana	IND	78	75
MC	Rupak Prasad Acharya	NEP	77	76
MC	Gavin Kyle Green	MAS	77	76
MC	Patrick Fepuleai	SAM	76	77
MC	Jian Chuan Lin	CHN	76	77
MC	Ben Wallace	NZL	73	80
MC	Gregory Foo	SIN	78	76
MC	Miah Sayum	BAN	78	76
MC	Tariq Mehmoud	PAK	77	77
MC	Huang You Yi	CHN	82	73
MC	Win Soe Moe	MMR	79	76
MC	Varit Chomchalam	THA	78	77
MC	Mohd Aali Hai	PAK	78	77
MC	Phetsamone Seesomwang	LAO	78	77
MC	Hassan Karimian Noshahar	IRN	78	77
MC	Moin Malak	IND	77	78
MC	Lok Tin Liu	HKG	77	78
MC	Peter Villaber	PHI	73	82
MC	James Honda	GUM	81	75
MC	Shinichi Mizuno	HKG	80	76
MC	Ryan Fox	NZL	77	79
MC	Nitipat Krobteeranon	THA	71	85
MC	Mohd Zakiruzzaman	BAN	81	76
MC	Zoheer Ahmad	FIJ	77	80
MC	Terrence Ng	HKG	81	77
MC	Seyed Mahmooud Jozi	IRN	80	78
MC	Thomas Spearman-Burn	NZL	77	81
MC	Abdullah Al Musharrekh	UAE	84	77
MC	Naser Jacob	BHR	81	80
MC	Abdulla Sultan	BHR	85	78
MC	Vikrant Chandra	FIJ	83	80
MC	Ben Taylor	NZL	85	80
MC	Wongchen Dhondup	NEP	82	83
MC	Kenneth De Silva	MAS	83	83
MC	Vanseiha Seng	CAM	81	85
MC	Malase Maifea	SAM	87	80
MC	Peter Gumulia	INA	86	84
MC	Palden Tshering	BHU	84	86
MC	Jeevan Gurung	BHU	83	87
MC	Sonny Karati	COK	86	87
MC	Delgermaa Ulziidelger	MGL	93	88