2023 Results

Australia's Jasper Stubbs wins Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship on Home Soil

Date	26-29 October 2023
Venue	Royal Melbourne Golf Club
Par	35-36-71
Length	7,055 yards
Designer	Dr. Alister MacKenzie
Opened	1891

Jasper Stubbs brought a fourth Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship victory to Australia with his win on home soil at Royal Melbourne Golf Club.

Stubbs started the final round six strokes behind then leader Sampson Zheng, who broke the amateur Composite Course record with a 65 during the third round. With all eyes on the leader, Stubbs remained under the radar for much of the day, but he used his Sandbelt golf experience dealing with the blustery wind conditions to rise to the top of the leaderboard. A local favorite, as he lives just two miles from Royal Melbourne, Stubbs carded a two-under-par round of 69 to finish with a one-over-par total of 285 for the Championship. His run of birdies at 11, 13 and 17 were enough to match Zheng and Wenyi Ding and force a three-way playoff at one over par.

With a playoff at the 18th hole (and repeating the 18th if necessary), Stubbs played an approach to the back of the green about 25 feet from the hole and Ding followed him to similar distance on the back right of the green. Zheng’s approach went through the back of the green to leave him with a difficult downhill chip, which he putt well past the hole. In a moment of huge drama, Stubbs and Ding both holed their snaking downhill putts for the only birdies on the 18th all day to continue in the playoff, while Zheng was eliminated.

On the second playoff hole, Stubbs once again found the back of the green and rolled a 60-foot putt down to a few inches from the hole. Ding’s approach found a bunker right of the green and he chipped to 20 feet, but his putt lipped out to leave Stubbs with a tap-in to claim the title.

With this victory Stubbs will be awarded an invitation to the 2024 Masters, an exemption into The 152nd Open and an exemption into The 129th Amateur Championship.

“Yeah, like I said in my interview, the Masters is something every kid has ever dreamed of. It's the one tournament that every golfer wants to play in their life and now that that's going to be a reality for me, I am speechless. It was always a dream, and now that it's a reality, I don't know what it's going to look like. But I'm just really excited for April now, and also for The Open. I've been over in the UK and tried to qualify for that championship before, and now that I am exempt in next year, it's going to be pretty nuts to go over there and see how I go.”

POS	PLAYER	COUNTRY	TO PAR	R1	R2	R3	R4	TOTAL
1	STUBBS, Jasper	Australia	+1	68	74	74	69	285
T2	DING, Wenyi	China	+1	69	70	76	70	285
T2	ZHENG, Sampson-Yunhe	China	+1	74	71	65	75	285
T4	LIN, Chuan-Tai	Chinese Taipei	+2	72	67	78	69	286
T4	CHARLES, Max	Australia	+2	73	72	71	70	286
6	KOBORI, Kazuma	New Zealand	+4	66	75	74	73	288
T7	NGUYEN, Anh Minh	Vietnam	+6	73	77	70	70	290
T7	LIM, Marcus Pang Chuen	Malaysia	+6	72	70	76	72	290
9	GUAN, Jeffrey	Australia	+7	73	71	74	73	291
10	DOWLING, Billy	Australia	+8	68	73	73	78	292
11	YAMASHITA, Masayuki	Japan	+9	73	70	76	74	293
T12	OSHIMA, Minato	Japan	+10	75	72	77	70	294
T12	MATSUI, Riura	Japan	+10	74	72	77	71	294
T12	MCDADE, Connor	Australia	+10	74	75	74	71	294
T12	ZHOU, Yanhan	China	+10	76	76	69	73	294
T12	SWANWICK, Zackary	New Zealand	+10	72	71	77	74	294
T12	ZHENG, Jimmy	New Zealand	+10	72	69	78	75	294
T12	YANG, Alexander	Hong Kong, China	+10	71	74	73	76	294
T19	CROKER, Quinnton	Australia	+11	73	75	79	68	295
T19	ANG, Ryan	Singapore	+11	82	71	72	70	295
T21	HSIEH, Cheng-Wei	Chinese Taipei	+12	77	72	74	73	296
T21	FORD, Jayden	New Zealand	+12	76	70	76	74	296
T21	PARK, Jeewon	South Korea	+12	72	71	74	79	296
T24	SHEN, Wang Ngai	Hong Kong, China	+13	75	77	76	69	297
T24	LE, Khanh Hung	Vietnam	+13	78	73	74	72	297
T24	JONES, Sam	New Zealand	+13	72	76	73	76	297
T24	ZHOU, Ziqin	China	+13	70	79	72	76	297
T28	NAKANO, Rintaro	Japan	+14	81	73	74	70	298
T28	MICHEL, Lukas	Australia	+14	73	78	76	71	298
T28	JAGLAN, Shubham	India	+14	72	77	75	74	298
T31	BHATTACHARYA, Shaurya	India	+15	83	71	74	71	299
T31	JIN, Bo	China	+15	72	76	78	73	299
T31	CHANG, Xihuan	China	+15	76	73	77	73	299
T31	THOMPSON, Mako	New Zealand	+15	73	74	78	74	299
T31	CHEN, Chi Chun	Chinese Taipei	+15	75	73	77	74	299
T31	LATIEF, Rayhan Abdul	Indonesia	+15	75	79	70	75	299
T37	SINGH, Yuvraj	India	+16	74	77	78	71	300
T37	CHUGH, Raghav	India	+16	77	69	78	76	300
T39	SU, Ching-Hung	Chinese Taipei	+17	77	73	77	74	301
T39	PICKIN, Jye	Australia	+17	76	73	73	79	301
T41	SONG, Taehoon	South Korea	+18	81	73	78	70	302
T41	TAKIS, Harry	Australia	+18	71	74	82	75	302
T41	FIRDAUS, Zubair	Malaysia	+18	74	75	76	77	302
T41	SATO, Kaito	Japan	+18	72	78	75	77	302
T45	BUCHANAN, Jack	Australia	+19	79	75	77	72	303
T45	PIAMKULVANICH, Ashita	Thailand	+19	73	74	81	75	303
T45	CORPUS, Carl Jano	Philippines	+19	77	69	81	76	303
T48	AREEPHUN, Arsit	Thailand	+20	74	78	79	73	304
T48	FEWKES, Connor	Australia	+20	77	76	77	74	304
T48	AN, Seonghyeon	South Korea	+20	77	76	76	75	304
T48	BINTANG, Randy Arbenata Mohamad	Indonesia	+20	72	69	87	76	304
T48	BOUAHOM, Thammalack	Laos	+20	76	74	78	76	304
T48	RILEY, Jake	Australia	+20	77	77	74	76	304
54	KIM, Hyun Uk	South Korea	+21	68	77	81	79	305
55	MOON, Donghyun	South Korea	+22	78	75	76	77	306
T56	LAOPAKDEE, Pongsapak	Thailand	+23	79	74	83	71	307
T56	YEH, Chia-Yin	Chinese Taipei	+23	76	76	82	73	307
T56	BAI, Joshua	New Zealand	+23	77	74	82	74	307
T59	SINGH, Kartik	India	+24	78	72	81	77	308
T59	SI, Ngai	Macao, China	+24	79	75	77	77	308
T59	SUZUKI, Ryuta	Japan	+24	76	77	77	78	308
62	LAM, Isaac	Hong Kong, China	+25	80	72	79	78	309
T63	MARCELLO, Jordan Indra	Indonesia	+27	77	76	83	75	311
T63	GANESH, Nateeshvar	Malaysia	+27	78	76	82	75	311
T63	ATTIEH, Khalid	Saudi Arabia	+27	76	77	78	80	311
66	BAI, Justin	China	+28	76	77	82	77	312
67	YEO, Anson Boon Xiang	Malaysia	+29	74	79	83	77	313
MC	TAMANG, Subash	Nepal	+13	78	77			155
MC	CHAN, Aidric Jose	Philippines	+13	76	79			155
MC	ZHUO, Tianwei (Alex)	Hong Kong, China	+13	78	77			155
MC	SUGIURA, Yuta	Japan	+13	79	76			155
MC	SKAIK, Ahmad	United Arab Emirates	+14	78	78			156
MC	JEHANGIR, Salman	Pakistan	+14	78	78			156
MC	ALZAYED, Ahmed	Bahrain	+14	76	80			156
MC	LEE, Thanawin	Thailand	+14	79	77			156
MC	HARI, Gabriel Hansel	Indonesia	+14	82	74			156
MC	THU, Pyae Phyo	Myanmar	+14	75	81			156
MC	WONG, Ryan Wey Ren	Singapore	+15	76	81			157
MC	CAMACHO, Redge	Guam	+15	80	77			157
MC	NICHOLAS, Rene	Lebanon	+15	81	76			157
MC	PUSPIKA, M H Chalitha	Sri Lanka	+15	79	78			157
MC	CHOPRAA, Krishnav Nikhil	India	+15	77	80			157
MC	LIN, Stanley	Chinese Taipei	+16	83	75			158
MC	CHEN, Yu Yu	Chinese Taipei	+16	81	77			158
MC	NAZARRUDIN, Achmad Fani	Indonesia	+16	80	78			158
MC	HOWARD, William	Cook Islands	+16	79	79			158
MC	SHIMOKE, Suguru	Japan	+16	81	77			158
MC	ABDUL RASHID, Zia Iqmal	Malaysia	+17	86	73			159
MC	YAP, Andrew	Malaysia	+17	80	79			159
MC	LEE, Sungho	South Korea	+18	78	82			160
MC	TIKILI, Gideon	Papua New Guinea	+18	82	78			160
MC	SIROHI, Vedant	India	+18	85	75			160
MC	SUZUKI, Shinichi	Philippines	+18	85	75			160
MC	BOLTON, Harry	Australia	+19	80	81			161
MC	BIN PG HJ ALLI, Ak Muhd Syakir	Brunei Darussalam	+20	84	78			162
MC	WILLIAMSON, Kristopher	Cook Islands	+20	81	81			162
MC	DOAN, Uy	Vietnam	+20	81	81			162
MC	AL SHAHRANI, Ali Abdulla	Qatar	+21	81	82			163
MC	BOONSEEOR, Teerawut	Thailand	+21	80	83			163
MC	HUSSAIN, Abid	Fiji	+21	83	80			163
MC	SABLAN, Ivan	Guam	+23	81	84			165
MC	KARAM POUR BARJOUEI, Sajjad	Iran	+23	84	81			165
MC	KHORKO, Karma Dorji	Bhutan	+24	82	84			166
MC	HERAS-GOMEZ, Lapassapon Liberto	Thailand	+24	77	89			166
MC	KHAN, Qasim	Pakistan	+25	84	83			167
MC	WANGRUNGWICHAISRI, Ingtawan	Thailand	+26	87	81			168
MC	WIDJAYA, Nathan Christoper	Indonesia	+26	84	84			168
MC	VUI, Lio	Samoa	+26	87	81			168
MC	SUTIANTO, Kenneth Henson	Indonesia	+27	86	83			169
MC	AL RUMHY, Azzan	Oman	+27	86	83			169
MC	ALMARAISI, Khalifa	Bahrain	+28	86	84			170
MC	PERERA, MU Chanaka	Sri Lanka	+28	79	91			170
MC	TAIKIRI, Brian	Papua New Guinea	+29	92	79			171
MC	AL-ALOOSY, Tarik Kamal Saleh	Iraq	+29	84	87			171
MC	RUKABO, George	Solomon Islands	+30	87	85			172
MC	ACHARYA, Sadbhav	Nepal	+32	89	85			174
MC	TAMANG, Nim Dorji	Bhutan	+32	92	82			174
MC	ALKAABI, Saleh Ali	Qatar	+34	87	89			176
MC	SHANA'AH, Mousa	Jordan	+35	94	83			177
RTD	LEE, Byungho	South Korea	+17	83				83