Hong Kong amateurs Matthew Cheung and Terrence Ng join the pros at Clearwater Bay Open
The pair finish joint runners-up in qualifier and will join 120-player field for HK2.2 million for the PGA Tour Series-China season-ending event
Hong Kong amateurs Matthew Cheung Hung-hai and Terrence Ng Shing-fung, both fresh from the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Singapore, finished joint runners-up at the Monday qualifier for this week’s Clearwater Bay Open to join the 120-player field for the PGA Tour Series-China season-ending event.
The two amateurs were among five Hong Kong players to finish in the top 10 of the qualifier at the Clearwater Bay Golf and Country Club, and are among 17 local players who will compete in the 72-hole event, which offers a Tour-record purse of 2 million yuan (HK$2,280,000).
Motin Yeung – seventh on the PGA Tour Series-China Order of Merit – and Jason Hak Shun-yat, Hong Kong Nos 1 and 2 respectively, are both Tour members, while James Stewart, Steven Lam, Wilson Choy, Derek Cheung and Chau Pui are also in the field through Hong Kong PGA exemptions.
Cheung, 23, and Ng, 24, both shot one-over 71 on Monday to finish three behind New Zealand’s Shane Kuiti, a Guangzhou-based teaching pro.
Australia-based Cheung – who played for Hong Kong with Yeung and Hak in last year’s National Games of China – teed off on 10 and suffered double bogeys on two of his first three holes. However, he responded with birdies at Nos 15, 1, 2 and 6 before bogeying his last hole to join a stellar field including 2017 champion James Marchesani of Australia, his former roommate at Oklahoma City University.
