Ba Ria - Vung Tau With a cut score of +6, the entire Vietnamese team only had Nguyen Anh Minh and Truong Chi Quan to qualify for the final round of the international professional golf tournament at The Bluffs par71 course.
Lexus Challenge 2024 has three stroke play rounds competing for a prize fund of 85,000 USD, gathering 138 golfers. Vietnam has 28 professional representatives and 13 amateur faces.
The cut-off point is determined at +6 according to the principle of taking top or T50 at the end of round 2 this afternoon, March 14. At this time, Anh Minh is in T17, Chi Quan is in T37. This position correlation is opposite to the opening round, when Chi Quan was in T24 (+2), and Anh Minh was in T33 (+3).
Nguyen Anh Minh in round 2 of Lexus Challenge today, March 14. Photo: VGA
Today, Chi Quan scored +3, bringing his tournament score up to +5, dropping him to T37. Meanwhile, Anh Minh scored +1 at the halfway point. However, Vietnam's number one amateur played brilliantly later on, showing off his three birdies and no bogeys. Thanks to that, the 17-year-old golfer from Hanoi pulled his tournament score up to +1 and moved up 16 places to T17.
The tournament has one round left and is expected to end on the afternoon of March 15. In theory, Anh Minh still has a chance to compete for the cup when he is five strokes away from the top of the table. The leading position belongs to two Thai golfers - Itthipat Buranatanyarat and Sangchai Kaewcharoen, both at -4. This level is one point lower than round 1.
Lexus Challenge was launched in 2019, and from 2022 will be at the top of the VGA Tour schedule, the very year the professional golf competition system is launched by the Vietnam Golf Association (VGA).
At the end of January 2024, VGA signed a cooperation agreement with the Asian Tour, thereby determining that the Lexus Challenge will start and share the same venue for the 2024 season with the Asian Development Tour. This is considered a stepping stone to the first-class arena with the same name as the host organization.
The agreement between VGA Tour and Asian Tour follows the popular co-sponsorship model in international golf, which is considered a bridge to create competition opportunities and career development for professional golfers, similar to the DP World Tour with the PGA Tour and Sunshine Tour of South Africa, or the Asian Tour with the LIV Golf League.
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