Vietnam has first Southeast Asian amateur golf team medal

The 2023 Regional Amateur High Performance Tournament saw the Vietnamese golf team win their first medals – one gold and one silver.

This year's tournament was hosted by Malaysia, taking place on the par71 course at The Mines Golf Resort with four stroke play rounds for both individual and team results, all applied to four events including Putra, Santi, Lion City and Kartini Cup. On the final day of August 24, Nguyen Duc Son, born in 2007, won the individual gold medal when he finished with +3 points at the Lion City Cup. In the team results of this group, Duc Son and Nguyen Tuan Anh ranked fourth. Duc Son's medal was also the only individual medal in the Vietnamese delegation.

Duc Son (right) in the moment of celebration after winning the Lion City Cup individual gold medal. Photo: VGA

Meanwhile, Nguyen Anh Minh, Nguyen Dang Minh, Nguyen Nhat Long and Doan Uy joined forces to bring home the Putra Cup team silver medal. In four rounds, the quartet scored 842 strokes, 13 strokes more than the first-place team from Indonesia.

With the achievements at the recent Lion City Cup and Putra Cup, Vietnamese golf has only won a medal at the Southeast Asian amateur team golf tournament since participating in 2019.

This is an internal playground for teams from 10 ASEAN countries, plus Hong Kong (China) and Papua New Guinea, initially competing only in the Putra Cup, an idea from Malaysia's first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman in 1961. This year, the Putra Cup reached its 60th edition, the Lion City Cup initiated by Singapore turned "14 years old", the Santi Cup proposed by Thailand reached its 12th edition, and the Kartini suggested by Indonesia reached its eighth edition.

The Putra Cup and Santi Cup both have no age limit while the Lion City Cup and Kartini Cup only accept U-16 players. In this set of cups, Putra and Lion City are for men, the rest are for women.

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