Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific Championship: Emily Hun makes history, as Hong Kong quartet test themselves against region’s best
- The 17-year-old has enjoyed a stellar season so far, winning the China Amateur Open
- ‘Knowing if I win I can compete in two women’s majors, it gets me very excited and encourages me,’ Hun says
Emily Hun Teng-teng is the first golfer from Macau to compete in the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific Championship, but didn’t know she was making history in Thailand this week.
The 17-year-old has enjoyed a stellar season so far, winning the China Amateur Open and Faldo Cup Series – China, while also finishing in a tie for seventh at the IMG Junior World Championship.
But the fact that no player from her city had been in the tournament before caught her off guard, although happily so.
“Wow, I did not know that,” she said. “I want to play under par for four days, and knowing that if I win this tournament I can compete in two women’s majors [the AIG Women’s Open and the Amundi Evian Championship] it gets me very excited and encourages me to play better.”
Han tees off in Thursday’s first round at Siam Country Club Waterside course in Pattaya alongside Nepal’s Pratima Sherpa and Malaysia’s Ng Jing-xuen at 8am local time.
Two of Hong Kong’s contingent will already be on the course by then, with Sophie Han and Virgine Ding Wai-chung ready to grab what head coach Tim Tang called a “great opportunity to test themselves against the region’s best”.