India’s top-ranked golfer Anirban Lahiri leads a robust presence from the sub-continent on the $2 million Worldwide Sequence Vietnam that tees off on Thursday on the KN Golf Hyperlinks within the Cam Ranh Bay space of south-central Vietnam.

Golf legend Jeev Milkha Singh, Jyoti Randhawa and Shiv Shankar Prasad Chawrasia who between them personal 5 Indian Open titles, India’s most profitable golfer on the Asian Tour Gaganjeet Bhullar and 2017 Panasonic Open India winner Khalin Joshi are all confirmed entries.

Additionally within the area are Kartik Sharma, Karandeep Kochhar, Shiv Kapur, Veer Ahlawat. Honey Baisoya, Chikkarangappa S., Rashid Khan, and Viraj Madappa.

First reserve Aman Raj, second on the home tour’s cash record travelled all the best way and even performed a follow spherical on Tuesday however was unlucky to overlook out on a slot as all confirmed entries have turned up.

The four-day occasion, a part of the 10-tournament Worldwide Sequence acts as a platform for VIV Golf League members to play alongside Asian Tour regulars and an excellent quantity from the breakaway league have entered as properly, together with Mexico’s Abraham Ancer, winner of the collection opener in Jeddah.

The Worldwide Sequence Vietnam might be performed on the Greg Norman-designed KN Golf Hyperlinks, a part of the KN Paradise Cam Ranh improvement alongside the East Coastline of the East Asian nation that’s rising into a preferred golf vacation spot.

In the meantime, in a major improvement, the Asian Tour will maintain its first ever occasion in Scotland between August 24 and 27 at Fairmont St Andrews within the type of the inaugural $1.5 million St Andrews Bay Championship on the venue’s 7320-yard Torrance Course, designed by Scottish and Ryder Cup legend Sam Torrance.

It sits lower than 5 miles from the Previous Course at St Andrews and has prior to now staged worldwide occasions together with on the DP World Tour, the European Seniors Tour in addition to Open Qualifying. By the way, the course is owned by Caleb Chan and Dr Peter Lam who’ve their roots in Hong Kong and the title win by fellow Hong Kong participant Taichi Kho apparently helped them take the choice to play hosts.

Kho – the primary from Hong Kong to win on the Asian Tour with victory on the World Metropolis Championship in Singapore – additionally earned a spot at The Open later this summer time in Liverpool which might be his first main look.

The Scotland match instantly follows the Worldwide Sequence England as a part of an Asian Tour ‘UK summer time swing’ and would be the sixth of the Worldwide Sequence schedule.

Asian Tour commissioner and CEO Cho Minn Thant was quoted as saying, “There are few larger experiences in golf than enjoying in Scotland. It’s broadly identified that Scotland’s golf

followers are among the many most educated followers wherever on the earth and our gamers are actually trying ahead to teeing it up at a venue that’s linked to the origins of the sport as we all know it. It’s a true privilege.”

Added Worldwide Sequence head Rahul Singh, “The St Andrews Bay Championship will present The Worldwide Sequence with an unimaginable alternative to go to the last word {golfing} vacation spot, St Andrews, Scotland, and we thank Fairmont St Andrews for serving to to make this doable.

“The possibility to stage an occasion on the Dwelling of Golf so early on in our journey might be really inspirational for our gamers and everybody concerned in The Worldwide Sequence. We’re an formidable initiative that goals to journey and transcend our conventional borders to assist develop the sport and there will be no higher place to play one in every of our occasions than the place the sport originated.”