Asian Tour: Hong Kong amateur Taichi Kho to get taste of life as professional in 3-week stint alongside region’s best
- The amateur golfer has an invite to this week’s Mandiri Indonesia Open, and will then play back-to-back International Series events in Singapore and South Korea
- Kho is looking forward to ‘completely new and challenging experience’ as he targets career in the game
Taichi Kho will get a taste of what life is like as a professional golfer this month, with three consecutive Asian Tour events on his calendar.
The Hong Kong amateur has secured an invitation to this week’s Mandiri Indonesia Open, and will then compete in back-to-back International Series tournaments in Singapore and South Korea over the following fortnight.
There will then be a flying visit to the US to enrol for his Master’s at the University of Notre Dame, before he heads to Paris for the World Amateur Team Championships, where he will represent Hong Kong alongside Leon D’Souza and Alex Yang.
“Playing one professional tournament is one thing, but playing three on the road will be a completely new and challenging experience,” Kho said.
“This is what I want to do for my career, there isn’t a better way to prepare for that and I’m really grateful for the opportunity.”
Kho has a season-long exemption into the International Series events, having qualified via his runner-up finish at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Dubai last December.
And although he had planned to play in the Western Amateur this week, the 22-year-old said the opportunity to compete against the region’s best over the course of several weeks was “too good to pass up”.
