Yuvraj to be part of Indian team for Asia-Pacific Amateur C’ships

Singapore, October 3 

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Yuvraj Sandhu will be a part of the six-member Indian squad that tees off at the annual Asia-Pacific Amateur Championships at the Sentosa Golf Club here from tomorrow.

The event rewards the winner with places in two Majors, the Masters and The Open next year.

Joining India’s No. 1 amateur Rayhan Thomas will be Kshitij Naveed Kaul. 

While Thomas turns 19 next month, Kaul is still two months away from his 18th birthday, but will be playing his third AAC event, just like Thomas, who joins College golf in the US next year.

Also playing his third AAC is Yuvraj Sandhu, who plans to turn pro soon after this event. 

The other three are 19-year-old Varun Parikh, Kartik Sharma, 18, and Vinay Kumar Yadav, all playing their first AAC.

Rayhan Thomas has been paired in a marquee group with Chinese prodigy Andy Zhang, who played the US Open at the age of 14, and Australian Dylan Perry, who is World No. 31 amateur.

“The course is so good that you can even putt on the tee boxes. It is a great event and I have played twice before in it. Also the rewards of winning here are amazing. I have been in good form and the course looks like it might yield low scores, so I am looking forward to it,” said Thomas.  

Interestingly, all the three medallists from the recent Asian Games, led by gold medal winner Japan’s Keita Nakajima besides silver medallist Korean Oh Seung-Taek and China’s bronze medallist Jin Cheng, the 2016 AAC winner, is also in the field.

In addition, Takumi Kanaya, seen as a motivator in the Japanese team and a member of Japan’s gold medal winning squad at Jakarta and Zhang, member of China’s silver winning squad at Jakarta, are also here, as is Korea’s Kim Dong-min, who took a bronze in Asiad team event. — PTI