2010 Results

Hideki Matsuyama Claims Victory at Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship

Date	7 – 10 October 2010
Venue	Kasumigaseki Country Club, West Course, Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Par	35-36-71
Length	6,463 metres/7,068 yards
Designers	Seiichi Inoue
Opened	1932

Hideki Matsuyama made sure of an invitation to Augusta National for the 2011 Masters Tournament, as well as a place in The Open Championship International Final Qualifying (IFQ), with victory at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.

The 18-year-old from Ehime, Japan, signed for a 4-under-par final round of 67 to finish five shots ahead of Australia’s Tarquin MacManus, who also earned an exemption into IFQ by virtue of his runner-up performance.

Matsuyama, whose caddie that week was a friend, class-mate and scratch handicapper from Tohoku Fukushi University, emerged from a 118-man field, made up of competitors representing 27 different Asia Pacific Golf Confederation member nations, to claim the crown.

Eleven players from six nations finished tied-ninth or better. Four Japanese formed over one third of that number, including Yusuke Asaji, who finished alone in third place at 9-under-par 275, five strokes ahead of Korea’s Kyunghoon Lee and Ben Campell of New Zealand.

“I’m very, very happy. I was under par for all four days and now I’m in the Masters, so that’s very exciting,” explained Matsuyama, who reached 15-under-par with rounds of 68, 69, 65 – the lowest of the Championship – and 67. “I was extremely pleased to keep the bogeys off my card today; it’s harder to not make mistakes than to make birdies.”

Victory for Matsuyama, who became the first Japanese amateur to play in the Masters Tournament, seemed certain after a birdie on the 380-yard, par-four 14th hole, courtesy of a remarkable second shot from deep in the woods, which finished eight feet from the hole. The shot was reminiscent of one played by Phil Mickelson on his way to winning the 2010 Masters Tournament. Matsuyama went on to play superbly at the 2011 Masters Tournament, finishing alongside Mickelson in a tie for 27th and winning the Silver Cup as low amateur.

Venue Information

The Kasumigaseki Country Club is located in Kawagoe City, Japan, one hour northwest of Tokyo in the historic Saitama Prefecture. The club has two 18-hole courses: the East and the West Courses, with the championship contested on the West Course.

Weather

No weather delays, although heavy rain fell during round three when the temperature dropped to 17 degrees Celsius. The remaining three days were fine and clear with temperatures in the mid-20s.

POS	NAME	NAT	R1	R2	R3	R4	TOT
1	Hideki Matsuyama	JPN	68	69	65	67	-15
2	Tarquin MacManus	AUS	71	67	67	69	-10
3	Yosuke Asaji	JPN	67	69	72	67	-9
T4	Ben Campbell	NZL	71	69	72	68	-4
T4	Lee Kyung-hoon	KOR	70	67	72	71	-4
6	Kieran Pratt	AUS	70	68	72	71	-3
T7	Il-hwan Park	KOR	68	71	75	68	-2
T7	Tze Huang Choo	SIN	69	73	70	70	-2
T9	Yoshinori Fujimoto	JPN	71	70	74	68	-1
T9	Masahiro Kawamura	JPN	71	71	71	70	-1
T9	Khalin Joshi	IND	70	71	72	70	-1
12	Kenta Konishi	JPN	74	67	73	70	E
T13	Yuki Usami	JPN	73	77	69	66	1
T13	Mohd Iylia Jamil	MAS	73	71	71	70	1
T13	Zhiqun Lam	SIN	69	66	78	72	1
T16	Chien-Yao Hung	TPE	69	72	77	68	2
T16	Jae-hyeok Lee	KOR	68	76	70	72	2
T16	Jordan Sherratt	AUS	70	72	72	72	2
T19	Marcel Puyat	PHI	72	71	75	69	3
T19	Miguel Luis Tabuena	PHI	72	72	74	69	3
21	Sihwan Kim	KOR	74	71	70	74	5
T22	Satoshi Kodaira	JPN	74	73	72	71	6
T22	Masamichi Ito	JPN	72	74	71	73	6
T24	Hamza Amin	PAK	73	70	75	73	7
T24	Meen-whee Kim	KOR	73	70	77	71	7
T24	Mhark Fernando	PHI	70	74	73	74	7
T24	Eric Chun	KOR	73	73	76	69	7
T24	Mithun Perera	SRI	72	75	71	73	7
T24	Hiroki Abe	JPN	76	72	69	74	7
T24	Jake Higginbottom	AUS	68	72	75	76	7
T31	William Sjaichudin	INA	69	73	77	73	8
T31	Luke Bleumink	AUS	77	71	71	73	8
T31	Tao Huang	TPE	74	74	74	70	8
T34	Ryan Fox	NZL	76	70	74	73	9
T34	Johnson Poh	SIN	72	77	75	69	9
T34	George Gandranata	INA	73	71	73	76	9
T34	Keisuke Otawa	JPN	77	73	76	67	9
T38	Jerome Ng	SIN	74	72	74	74	10
T38	Jerson Balasabas	PHI	73	72	75	74	10
T40	Wei Wei	CHN	72	73	76	74	11
T40	Xin-jun Zhang	CHN	73	76	74	72	11
T42	Abhinav Lohan	IND	71	72	78	75	12
T42	Nakarin Ratanakul	THA	71	72	81	72	12
T42	Daniel Pearce	NZL	75	72	78	71	12
T42	Ren Han	CHN	74	75	76	71	12
T46	Wei-Hou Liu	TPE	76	71	75	75	13
T46	Chi-Hsien Hsieh	TPE	75	71	77	74	13
T46	Wenyi Huang	CHN	69	77	77	74	13
T46	Dulal Hossain	BAN	77	72	75	73	13
T46	Pieter Zwart	NZL	74	74	79	70	13
T51	Bradley Kendall	NZL	73	78	73	74	14
T51	Shakhawat Sohel	BAN	72	76	76	74	14
T51	Amrith De Soysa	SRI	74	76	76	72	14
54	Louie Sunga	GUM	76	75	77	71	15
55	Yuxiang Liu	CHN	71	76	83	71	17
56	Chikkarangappa Senappa	IND	76	70	80	76	18
57	Chan Tuck Soon	MAS	73	76	77	77	19
58	Rattanon Wannasrichan	THA	75	76	79	74	20
59	Saurabh Bahuguna	IND	72	78	79	76	21
60	Judson Eustaquio	PHI	70	78	83	75	22
61	Choo Teck Ng	MAS	74	72	78	83	23
62	Terrence Ng	HKG	76	75	83	74	24
63	Suprapto	INA	76	75	78	80	25
64	Safdar Khan	PAK	75	71	82	82	25
MC	Philip Matsson	THA	79	73
MC	Wei Huo	CHN	76	76
MC	Matt Jager	AUS	80	72
MC	Vikrant Chandra	FIJ	74	78
MC	Teng Kao	TPE	73	80
MC	Ashbeer Saini	IND	77	76
MC	Olaf Allen	FIJ	75	78
MC	Thangaraja Nadaraja	SRI	78	75
MC	Taimur Amin	PAK	77	76
MC	Fei Hao Yang	TPE	76	77
MC	Gregory Foo	SIN	77	77
MC	Steven Lam	HKG	77	77
MC	Rinaldi Adiandono	INA	75	79
MC	Abel Tam Yuan	MAS	76	78
MC	Atiwit Janewattananond	THA	76	78
MC	Edgar Oh	SIN	75	79
MC	Mohd Ali Hai	PAK	78	76
MC	K A Chandradasa	SRI	76	78
MC	Kenneth De Silva	MAS	79	76
MC	Jhonnel Ababa	PHI	78	77
MC	Tariq Mehmood	PAK	78	78
MC	Poom Saksansin	THA	77	79
MC	Ziwang Gurung	BHU	80	76
MC	Azman Basharuddin	MAS	81	75
MC	Md Jakiruzzaman	BAN	77	80
MC	Zulfiqar Ali	PAK	78	79
MC	Andrew Stewart	NZL	80	78
MC	Lok Tin Liu	HKG	82	76
MC	Soti Dinki	PNG	77	81
MC	Naveenda Ranga Gamage	SRI	79	79
MC	Brian Taikiri	PNG	81	77
MC	Rashid Khan	IND	81	78
MC	Detsongkham Thammavong	LAO	81	80
MC	James Honda	GUM	81	81
MC	Lon Lindsey	GUM	77	85
MC	Ulziidelger Delgermaa	MGL	83	79
MC	Kirk Tuaiti	COK	82	81
MC	Masanam Arumugam	SRI	81	82
MC	Van Tho Trinh	VIE	83	81
MC	Malase Maifea	SAM	80	84
MC	Patrick Fepuleai	SAM	79	85
MC	Vanseiha Seng	CAM	81	84
MC	Victor Borja	GUM	81	85
MC	Mando Iwanaga	GUM	83	83
MC	Dechen Ugyen	BHU	80	86
MC	Ta Thuy Vo	VIE	77	90
MC	Van Thong Nguyen	VIE	84	83
MC	Tashi Ghale	NEP	81	87
MC	Elki Kow	INA	87	82
MC	Tashi Tsering	NEP	89	82
MC	Santi Sithoumphalath	LAO	86	86
MC	James Herman	COK	89	84
MC	Tumenjargal Shagdar	MGL	99	99
WD	Atthachai Jaichalad	THA	78