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Amateurs on the rise with WAAP success
Sports, Chuah Choo Chiang, Published on 11/02/2026
» The region's top women amateur golfers, including Thailand's Prim Prachnakorn and Achiraya Sriwong, Malaysia's Jeneath Wong and Korea's Oh Soo-Min, do not need to look far for inspiration when they reach the crossroads of when to turn professional.
How China's ladies are shaping sport
Sports, Chuah Choo Chiang, Published on 02/10/2025
» When the Women's China Open first teed off in 2006, the occasion was quietly significant. At the time, women's golf in the Middle Kingdom was still taking fledgling steps in the global game. The domestic circuit was modest, the talent pool limited and the pathway to elite professional circuits like the LPGA Tour seemed distant, if not daunting.
Marking 10 years of Matsuyama magic
Sports, Chuah Choo Chiang, Published on 05/06/2024
» Brian Harman, the reigning Open champion, tells a funny tale of how he and fellow PGA Tour winner, Matt Every, made a poor error in judgement on a young Asian golfer more than a decade ago. In contrast, Jack Nicklaus, holder of a record 18 major victories, knew the golf world was in for a special treat with the emergence of a rising star.
Global pathways driving Asian golf stars up
Sports, Chuah Choo Chiang, Published on 25/04/2024
» The establishment of strategic alliances between many of the regional golf circuits and the DP World Tour has provided new impetus for Asia's rising stars to shoot for coveted places in golf's promised land, known otherwise as the PGA Tour.
Matsuyama has special skills, says Choi
Sports, Chuah Choo Chiang, Published on 02/02/2022
» When Hideki Matsuyama thumped a magnificent 3-wood approach from 276 yards and landed his ball inside three feet of the flag to equal a record that has stood for over a decade, KJ Choi was the least surprised to see that moment of magic by the Japanese superstar.
Winning, dreaming and giving make golf a beautiful game
Sports, Chuah Choo Chiang, Published on 09/06/2021
» Phil Mickelson, KH Lee and Justin Thomas are as different as they come but the trio delivered feel-good and standout moments on the PGA Tour to show the beautiful game of golf is in a very good place and thriving for the right reasons.
Wu poised to be next big name
Sports, Chuah Choo Chiang, Published on 12/02/2021
» All the talk on golf's Class of 2019 has so far centred around the trio of Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland and Matthew Wolff, whose prodigious talents and youthful exuberance have seen them take the PGA Tour by storm.
Kiradech among Asians likely to do well in 2021 PGA season
Sports, Chuah Choo Chiang, Published on 08/01/2021
» Unless you're Bryson DeChambeau, the old adage "Drive for Show and Putt for Dough" has for a long time been an essence in golf's wisdom where the difference between success or despair may be a matter of inches instead of yards.
Is Tiger ready for biggest roar?
Sports, Chuah Choo Chiang, Published on 08/12/2019
» In years to come, linguists may well need to reword the old adage "Rising from the ashes like a phoenix" if golf legend Tiger Woods puts an exclamation point on an amazing 2019 by leading the United States Team to victory at the Presidents Cup at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club which starts on Thursday.
Pan, Kang's feats inspiring fresh lot of asian stars
Chuah Choo Chiang, Published on 07/07/2019
» Like many others, CT Pan and Kang Sung had visions of an American dream after getting hooked to golf as kids. Growing up in the late 1990s when a certain half-Asian golfer named Tiger Woods was making game a really cool sport with his electrifying talent and bravado, Pan, who hails from Taiwan, and South Korea’s Kang were mesmerised and drawn into a game which would forever change their lives.