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Asian Tour: Hong Kong’s Taichi Kho ready to embrace discomfort as year of opportunity at home and abroad approaches
- Kho begins his second season as a professional golfer this week, carrying a ‘deep, inner-rooted confidence’ that he belongs at the highest level
- The 23-year-old’s packed scheduled includes Asian Tour, DP World Tour and potentially LIV Golf events over the next several months
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Taichi Kho begins his second season as a professional golfer this week, carrying a “deep, inner-rooted confidence” in his ability to compete at the highest level.
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With a schedule built around the Asian Tour and its International Series, Kho will also have several opportunities to play on the DP World Tour this year, and having experienced the Open Championship once is focused on returning to the game’s biggest stage of all.
The Hongkonger has already won on the Asian Tour, the first golfer from the city to do so, and added a historic gold at the Asian Games before capping off an impressive rookie season by finishing in the top 10 on the tour’s order of merit.
And while feeling a mix of “anticipation, nerves and excitement” for the year ahead, Kho said he was ready to embrace all the emotions that typically come before a tournament, the first of which is the Malaysian Open starting on Thursday.
“Last year was quite experimental and, you know, doing everything for the first time, it’s quite nerve wracking,” said the 23-year-old, who was born in November 2000, a Year of the Dragon.
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“With all the experiences last year, I feel like, naturally, different kinds of anxiety reveal themselves before the season starts, or before tournaments begin, and they’re obviously still there.
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