2021 Results
World No. 1 Keita Nakajima wins Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship
Date | 3-6 November 2021 |
Venue | Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club |
Par | 35-36-71 |
Length | 6,986 yards |
Designers | Karl Litten/Thomas Bjorn |
Opened | 1993 |
Keita Nakajima became the third player from Japan to win the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship (AAC), defeating Hong Kong’s Taichi Kho on the second hole of a thrilling playoff on Saturday at Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club.
The No. 1 player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking ® (WAGR®) shot a three-under-par 68 in the final round to catch up with Kho, who fired a 64 in the third round followed by a 65 to finish on 14 under par.
The two players headed back to the 18th hole, which was parred in the first attempt. Kho then found the water with his second from the right fairway bunker playing it a second time. Nakajima hit a superb drive, followed by a second to 20 feet. He rolled that in to seal the victory with a birdie.
It was the second consecutive playoff in AAC history, following the two extra holes played by Yuxin Lin and Takumi Kanaya in the 2019 championship in Shanghai.
With his win, the 21-year-old Nakajima receives an invitation to the Masters Tournament in 2022, thus making his dream of playing a practice round at Augusta National Golf Club with the reigning Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama come true, as well as an exemption into The 150th Open at St Andrews.
“I am very proud of what I have achieved. To follow in the footsteps of Hideki-san and Takumi feels great. I am so excited that I will be playing three majors in 2022 (he is also exempt for the U.S. Open as part of winning the Mark H. McCormack Medal as the men’s World No. 1 in 2021 WAGR ®). I am very thankful to the tournament for giving us such great opportunities,”
POS | PLAYER | NAT | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Keita NAKAJIMA | JPN | 67 | 68 | 67 | 68 | -14 |
2 | Taichi KHO | HKG | 68 | 73 | 64 | 65 | -14 |
3 | Wooyoung CHO | KOR | 67 | 68 | 72 | 65 | -12 |
3 | Bo JIN | CHN | 70 | 64 | 70 | 68 | -12 |
5 | Baek-jun KIM | KOR | 69 | 66 | 72 | 66 | -11 |
5 | Ryunosuke SAKANE | JPN | 69 | 67 | 70 | 67 | -11 |
7 | Andre LAUTEE | AUS | 70 | 70 | 66 | 68 | -10 |
7 | Yuxin LIN | CHN | 67 | 71 | 65 | 71 | -10 |
9 | James LEOW | SIN | 70 | 72 | 67 | 66 | -9 |
9 | Sun-Yi LU | TPE | 73 | 67 | 66 | 69 | -9 |
11 | Bo PENG | CHN | 69 | 68 | 70 | 69 | -8 |
11 | Shubham JAGLAN | IND | 70 | 68 | 69 | 69 | -8 |
13 | Alexander YANG | HKG | 67 | 69 | 70 | 71 | -7 |
13 | Puwit ANUPANSUEBSAI | THA | 73 | 64 | 69 | 71 | -7 |
13 | Sam CHOI | KOR | 67 | 68 | 69 | 73 | -7 |
16 | Riki KAWAMOTO | JPN | 69 | 68 | 71 | 70 | -6 |
16 | Yuki MORIYAMA | JPN | 71 | 70 | 65 | 72 | -6 |
18 | Khavish Varman VARADAN | MYS | 69 | 72 | 69 | 69 | -5 |
18 | Aaron DU | CHN | 68 | 73 | 67 | 71 | -5 |
18 | Connor MCKINNEY | AUS | 70 | 65 | 72 | 72 | -5 |
21 | Haydn BARRON | AUS | 72 | 71 | 70 | 67 | -4 |
21 | Sarut VONGCHAISIT | THA | 69 | 75 | 68 | 68 | -4 |
21 | Peicheng CHEN | CHN | 69 | 73 | 69 | 69 | -4 |
21 | Naraajie RAMADHAN PUTRA | IDN | 72 | 67 | 69 | 72 | -4 |
21 | Leo OYO | JPN | 71 | 65 | 70 | 74 | -4 |
26 | Lukas MICHEL | AUS | 67 | 71 | 77 | 66 | -3 |
26 | Alfred Raja SITOHANG | IDN | 73 | 69 | 70 | 69 | -3 |
28 | Hayden HOPEWELL | AUS | 68 | 69 | 77 | 68 | -2 |
28 | Yuta SUGIURA | JPN | 71 | 70 | 72 | 69 | -2 |
28 | Yubin JANG | KOR | 72 | 72 | 68 | 70 | -2 |
31 | Leon Philip D'SOUZA | HKG | 70 | 74 | 69 | 70 | -1 |
31 | Lachlan BARKER | AUS | 73 | 70 | 69 | 71 | -1 |
33 | Justin KUK | SIN | 72 | 70 | 72 | 70 | E |
33 | Wonjun LEE | KOR | 72 | 70 | 71 | 71 | E |
33 | Brandon HAN | SIN | 71 | 67 | 72 | 74 | E |
36 | Chi-chun CHEN | TPE | 68 | 73 | 76 | 68 | 1 |
36 | Jimmy ZHENG | NZL | 67 | 71 | 74 | 73 | 1 |
38 | Weerawish NARKPRACHAR | THA | 69 | 71 | 78 | 68 | 2 |
38 | Jose SURYADINATA | IDN | 70 | 68 | 76 | 72 | 2 |
38 | Carl Jano CORPUS | PHI | 70 | 70 | 72 | 74 | 2 |
41 | Milind SONI | IND | 71 | 69 | 71 | 76 | 3 |
42 | Ahmad SKAIK | UAE | 69 | 71 | 77 | 71 | 4 |
43 | Supakit SEELANAGAE | THA | 71 | 71 | 73 | 74 | 5 |
43 | Chuan-tai LIN | TPE | 72 | 69 | 73 | 75 | 5 |
45 | Qi Wen WONG | SIN | 72 | 72 | 75 | 71 | 6 |
45 | Akshay NERANJEN | IND | 74 | 69 | 71 | 76 | 6 |
47 | Parathakorn SUYASRI | THA | 71 | 73 | 73 | 74 | 7 |
48 | Shergo KURDI | JOR | 69 | 74 | 79 | 72 | 10 |
48 | Jonathan Xavier HARTONO | IDN | 69 | 75 | 76 | 74 | 10 |
WD | Tunyapat SUKKOED | THA | 69 | 68 | 75 | ||
MC | Khalifa ALMARAISI | BHR | 70 | 75 | |||
MC | Yin-ho YUE | HKG | 72 | 73 | |||
MC | Redge CAMACHO | GUM | 70 | 75 | |||
MC | Rohan DHOLEPATIL | IND | 72 | 73 | |||
MC | Arkesh BHATIA | IND | 74 | 72 | |||
MC | Timothius Tirto TAMARDI | IDN | 72 | 75 | |||
MC | Junmin LEE | KOR | 73 | 74 | |||
MC | Ching-fung SU | TPE | 73 | 75 | |||
MC | Arjun GUPTA | IND | 75 | 73 | |||
MC | Aryan ROOPA ANAND | IND | 75 | 73 | |||
MC | Marcus Pang Chuen LIM | MYS | 74 | 75 | |||
MC | Rizq Adam ROHIZAM | MYS | 72 | 77 | |||
MC | Saud SHARIF | SAU | 72 | 77 | |||
MC | Aidric Jose CHAN | PHI | 73 | 77 | |||
MC | Tian-wei (Alex) ZHUO | HKG | 78 | 72 | |||
MC | Salman JEHANGIR | PAK | 74 | 76 | |||
MC | Jantai MALATAEV | KGZ | 75 | 75 | |||
MC | Khalid Yousuf AL JASMI | UAE | 76 | 75 | |||
MC | Saleh ALKAABI | QAT | 75 | 76 | |||
MC | Almay Rayhan YAGUTA | IDN | 75 | 77 | |||
MC | Muhammad Umer KHOKHAR | PAK | 77 | 76 | |||
MC | MU PERERA | LKA | 77 | 76 | |||
MC | Faisal SALHAB | SAU | 76 | 78 | |||
MC | Sami Adonis NASR | LBN | 79 | 76 | |||
MC | Ali KHAZANBEIK | IRN | 79 | 76 | |||
MC | Nateeshvar Anatha GANESH | MYS | 79 | 78 | |||
MC | Amer Abdulhasan RADEE | IRQ | 80 | 78 | |||
MC | Ali AL-SHAHRANI | QAT | 87 | 72 | |||
MC | Cassie KOMA | PNG | 78 | 81 | |||
MC | Ivan SABLAN | GUM | 77 | 83 | |||
MC | Brian TAIKIRI | PNG | 81 | 79 | |||
MC | Pich Meta PEOU | KHM | 81 | 79 | |||
MC | Vanseiha SENG | KHM | 80 | 80 | |||
MC | Rachid AKL | LBN | 83 | 79 | |||
MC | Khalifa AL MASAOOD | UAE | 81 | 81 | |||
MC | Azzan RUMHY | OMN | 85 | 78 | |||
MC | Rashed AL EMADI | UAE | 82 | 81 | |||
MC | Bat-Amgalan CHINBAT | MNG | 84 | 81 | |||
MC | Ahmed Al WAHAIBI | OMN | 91 | 77 | |||
MC | Hamza Bashar Naim SALMAN | JOR | 82 | 89 | |||
MC | Namir Idris DAOUD | IRQ | 86 | 85 | |||
MC | Mohamed Diab ALNOAIMI | BHR | 93 | 86 | |||
MC | Mungunshagai GANTSOLMON | MNG | 90 | 92 |