November 10,
2009: Shishido Hills
Country Club, recent winner of the Asian Golf Monthly Award for Best Course in
Japan, will once again host the Faldo Series Japan Championship on December 4-5
as some of the nation's future stars compete for a place in the Faldo Series
Asia Grand Final and the chance to meet six-time Major winner Nick
Faldo.
Japan's Katsuyuki Sakurai in action at the last Faldo Series Asia Grand Final. |
Supported by UBS,
Mission Hills and The R&A, over 140 of Japan's leading young golfers, boys
and girls aged 12 to 21, will be tested under strict tournament conditions on
the West Course at Shishido Hills, venue for the UBS Japan Golf Tour
Championship, considered the 'players championship' of Japanese
golf.
Organised by Mori
Building and Golf Digest Japan, and with local support from Shishido Kokusai
Golf Club, the players will also receive expert advice from golfing-legend Tommy
Nakajima, a winner of 48 events on the Japan Golf Tour and a former world number
five.
Endorsed by the Asian
Tour and the Asia Pacific Golf Confederation, younger children from the local
community will also be attending the tournament in Kasama, 50 miles northeast of
Tokyo, to receive free coaching and watch the competitors in action, part of
Faldo's drive to simultaneously create access to the sport at a grass-roots
level.
The Japan
Championship is one of 15 Faldo Series Asia tournaments in 12 different
countries during 2009/2010, including four in mainland China plus one in each of
Bahrain, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia,
Singapore, Thailand, The Philippines and Vietnam.
With over 1,000
competitors taking part in the Faldo Series Asia this year, and many more being
introduced to the game, the climax of the season will be the fourth Grand Final
in March 2010, an R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking event which Faldo will once
again host at Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, China, home of the Faldo
Series Asia.
As well as spending
time with Faldo, over 60 Asian finalists from across the region will compete for
five invites to the European Faldo Series Grand Final plus the opportunity to
play in a flagship Asian Tour or Ladies European Tour event for the overall boy
and girl champion.
Anyone
wishing to enter the Faldo Series Japan Championship should contact Golf Digest
Japan on masahiro.kimura@golf-digest.co.jp
or
visit the website at www.golfdigest.co.jp
For information on
the Faldo Series Asia visit www.nickfaldo.com