2012 Results

Tianlang Guan Becomes The Youngest AAC Champion

Date	1 – 4 November 2012
Venue	Amata Spring Country Club, Chonburi, Thailand
Par	36-36-72
Length	6,615 metres / 7,234 yards
Designers	Lee Schmidt
Opened	2005

Tianlang Guan became the youngest winner at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship when he won the fourth edition of the event at Amata Spring Country Club.

A final round of 1-under-par 71 gave the Chinese teenage sensation a 15-under total of 273 and a nail-biting one-stroke victory over Chinese Taipei’s Cheng-tsung Pan. After rounds of 66-64-72, Guan started the final day two shots ahead of his nearest challenger, Australian Oliver Goss, who eventually finished third. The 14-year-old began nervously and off-set his two birdies on holes 2 and 4 with two bogeys on the 7th and 9th. He picked up his game, however, on the back nine to fend off the challenge of Pan, who had a superb final-day 65 that included nine birdies.

Weighing just 125lbs and averaging 250 yards per tee shot, he had found Amata Spring’s 18th hole, a par-4 of more than 470 yards a little tough going. Having bogeyed the hole twice in the first three rounds, Guan was under pressure to sink at least a par putt at the final hole to secure his win. He missed the green with his 3-wood second shot, then chipped to five feet with a 60-degree wedge. He used his belly putter, which he began using in June, to successfully sink the par putt, an effort that he admitted was a little nerve-racking.

“I had a great up-and-down on the last hole,” Guan said. “I was a little bit nervous over the putt.”

Guan became the first Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship winner from China.

Venue Information

Amata Spring Country Club has hosted numerous international events, including The Royal Trophy, the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship and the Thailand Golf Championship in 2011 and 2012. These events have helped establish the notoriety and legacy of the course. In only a few short years, Amata Spring Country Club is now recognised as the preeminent facility in the country.

Weather

No weather delays. Sunny, fine and clear with an average temperature of 28 degrees Celsius.

POS	NAME	NAT	R1	R2	R3	R4	TOT
1	Tianlang Guan	CHN	66	64	72	71	-15
2	Cheng-tsung Pan	TPE	75	67	67	65	-14
3	Oliver Goss	AUS	70	65	69	72	-12
4	Hideki Matsuyama	JPN	71	69	70	68	-10
5	James McMillan	AUS	73	69	69	68	-9
6	Soomin Lee	KOR	69	70	69	72	-8
T7	Nattawat Suvajanakorn	THA	71	72	72	67	-6
T7	Nathan Holman	AUS	75	64	75	68	-6
T7	Cameron Smith	AUS	74	66	73	69	-6
T7	Brett Drewitt	AUS	71	71	71	69	-6
T7	Natipong Srithong	THA	69	69	73	71	-6
12	Chikkarangappa Senapaa	IND	69	74	71	69	-5
13	Mikumu Horikawa	JPN	71	72	67	74	-4
T14	Vaughan McCall	NZL	72	68	76	69	-3
T14	Gyubin Kim	KOR	71	73	72	69	-3
T14	Khalin Joshi	IND	74	71	69	71	-3
T14	Prin Sirisommai	THA	70	65	72	78	-3
T18	Zecheng Dou	CHN	72	72	76	67	-1
T18	Taihei Sato	JPN	75	71	73	68	-1
T18	Changwoo Lee	KOR	78	71	68	70	-1
T18	Poom Saksansin	THA	73	71	73	70	-1
T18	Daniel Pearce	NZL	68	73	74	72	-1
T23	Anton Arboleda	PHI	73	75	70	70	E
T23	Jonathan Ke-Jun Woo	SIN	71	70	75	72	E
T23	Khai Jei Low	MAS	70	73	71	74	E
T23	Blair Riordan	NZL	73	69	71	75	E
27	Kenta Konishi	JPN	77	71	78	63	1
28	Rico Hoey	PHI	75	72	70	75	4
29	Peter Lee	NZL	78	70	73	72	5
T30	Angad Cheema	IND	77	72	72	73	6
T30	Chieh-po Lee	TPE	76	74	75	69	6
32	Abel Tam	MAS	72	76	73	74	7
T33	Udayan Mane	IND	75	75	70	76	8
T33	Danthai Boonma	THA	70	76	74	76	8
T33	Somprad Rattanasuwan	THA	79	69	75	73	8
T33	Rupert Zaragosa	PHI	74	70	80	72	8
T33	Shinichi Mizuno	HKG	75	73	76	72	8
T33	Manav Das	IND	79	71	75	71	8
T39	Chirat Jirasuwan	THA	75	75	75	73	10
T39	Ricky Kato	AUS	77	75	73	73	10
T39	Jerome Ng	SIN	74	76	76	72	10
T39	Kyowon Koo	KOR	78	74	76	70	10
T43	Cachok Dejpiratanamongkol	THA	73	73	74	79	11
T43	Honey Baisoya	IND	76	72	76	75	11
T43	Ryutaro Kato	JPN	73	75	78	73	11
T46	Vijitha Bandara	SRI	74	70	76	80	12
T46	Teng Kao	TPE	77	71	75	77	12
T46	Nadaraja Thangaraja	SRI	75	71	78	76	12
T46	Hyeonbo Andy Shim	KOR	77	76	72	75	12
T50	Vikrant Chandra	FIJ	75	74	75	77	13
T50	Taewan Lee	KOR	77	74	77	73	13
T50	Waseem Rana	PAK	78	70	80	73	13
T53	Md Dulal Hossain	BAN	73	74	75	80	14
T53	Ian Andrew	INA	78	73	78	73	14
T55	Maung Maung OO	MYN	79	72	74	78	15
T55	Compton Pikari	NZL	72	81	77	73	15
T57	James Beale	NZL	76	76	74	78	16
T57	Wei-hou Liu	TPE	74	79	75	76	16
T57	Olaf Allen	FIJ	74	78	79	73	16
60	Nanfa Somnuek	THA	74	72	80	80	18
61	Mohd Afif Mohd Razif	MAS	79	74	78	79	22
MC	Jordan Irawan	INA	81	73
MC	Hamad Mubarak	BRN	79	75
MC	Cheng Jin	CHN	77	77
MC	Adidandono Rinaldi	INA	77	78
MC	Melvin Chew	SIN	76	79
MC	Wei-hsiang Wang	TPE	80	75
MC	Marc Ong	SIN	81	74
MC	Ghazanfar Mahmood	PAK	82	73
MC	Thammasack Bouahom	LAO	79	77
MC	Muhammad Ahmad Fauzi	MAS	77	79
MC	M Arumugam	SRI	79	77
MC	Llyod Jefferson Go	PHI	80	77
MC	Van Dinh Doan	VIE	78	79
MC	Chan Tuck Soon	MAS	78	79
MC	Thein Naing So	MYN	79	78
MC	Nicklaus Chiam	SIN	78	80
MC	Nirun Sea-Ueng	THA	77	81
MC	Ba Rohana	SRI	78	80
MC	Nasser Yacoob	BRN	81	78
MC	Tshendra Dorji	BHU	80	79
MC	Hassan Karimian Noshahr	IRI	82	77
MC	Sammy Bob	PNG	78	82
MC	Mohd Ali Hai	PAK	77	83
MC	Albright Chong	MAS	81	79
MC	Malase Maifea	SAM	82	78
MC	Abdul Hadi	SIN	81	79
MC	Terrence Ng	HKG	81	80
MC	John Kier Abdon	PHI	79	82
MC	Saleh Al Kaabi	QAT	78	83
MC	Han-ting Chiu	TPE	83	78
MC	Sohail Al Marzouqi	UAE	81	81
MC	Seyed Mahmoud Jozi	IRI	85	77
MC	Ramzi Khaled	LIB	82	81
MC	Pulou Faaaliga	SAM	76	87
MC	Md Sagor	BAN	79	84
MC	Daryl Poe	GUM	85	78
MC	Ziwang Gurung	BHU	84	80
MC	Chak Hou Tang	MAC	81	83
MC	George Rukabo	SOL	80	84
MC	Van Seiha Seng	CAM	87	77
MC	Rachid Akl	LIB	83	81
MC	Redge Camacho	GUM	85	81
MC	Ta Thuy Vo	VIE	89	79
MC	Jieyu Xiao	MAC	81	87
MC	Ali Abdulla Al Mufleh	QAT	86	83
MC	Sisira Kumara	SRI	84	85
MC	Ly Hong	CAM	88	81
MC	Navinda Ranga	SRI	88	81
MC	Soti Dinki	PNG	86	84
MC	Soulis Chanthalanouvat	LAO	82	89
MC	Daniel Joseph Webb	COK	85	87
MC	William Haimona Browne	COK	87	85
MC	Tom Felani	SOL	89	86
MC	Abdalla Al Musharrekh	UAE	85	90
MC	Bikash Bogati	NEP	86	93
MC	Nurmat Imanaliev	KGZ	97	97
MC	Orgil Sodov	MGL	94	106
MC	Talgat Sugirbekov	KGZ	105	108
WD	Delger Ulzii	MGL	89