Published July 17, 2008 on March 12, 2018

Asia-Pacific Defeated Europe in Both the Bonallack and Patsy Hankins Trophy Matches.

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Team Asia-Pacific scored a double at the recent Bonallack and Patsy Hankins Trophy when they defeated Europe in both the men’s and women’s matches at the Doha Golf Club in Qatar.

Organised by the European Golf Association and the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation, the matches are played biennially between teams of 12 amateur golfers and contended over three days of match play golf made up of foursomes, fourballs and singles sessions.

In a tight affair that came down to the last match, the men’s team took the title for the first time since 2004 with a 16^1/2  – 15^1/2  victory. In the second edition of the women’s event, the Asia-Pacific team successfully defended the trophy they won in 2016 by the conclusion of the second day after winning eight of ten matches. 

In the men’s matches, Asia-Pacific held a narrow lead after the first-day fourball and foursomes matches, but trailed by two points after day two.

In the singles on the third and final day, Asia-Pacific won five of the first seven matches to take a one-point lead. Needing three more points to retain the trophy, Europe were up in two and down in three of the five remaining matches. But it all came down to the final match between Osawa Kazuya and Matthew Jordan

Jordan needed to win the 18th hole to score the half-point Europe needed to retain the trophy. Despite coming agonisingly close, the 2017 Walker Cup player failed to hole out from two metres and Asia-Pacific took the match.

 

The new Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific (WAAP) champion Atthaya Thitikul continued her impressive play at the Patsy Hankins Trophy. The 15-year-old Thai prodigy teamed up with Yuka Saso, who she defeated in a playoff at Sentosa to lift the WAAP trophy last month, to deliver four points over the opening two days.

Thitikul and Saso would also both go on to win their singles matches to finish the event undefeated. Asia-Pacific however secured the trophy by the conclusion of the second day’s play with the scoreline at 16^1/2   – 3^1/2 .

Despite the match already being decided, the Europeans were more successful in the singles matches on day three; Blanca Fernandez, Annabell Fuller, Isobel Wardle, Zhen Bontan and Paula Grant all won their matches on Saturday.

Bonallack Trophy Asia-Pacific 16^1/2 – 15^1/2 Europe

Patsy Hankins Trophy: Asia-Pacific 23^1/2 – 8^1/2  Europe