{"id":62241,"date":"2024-10-07T10:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T06:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=62241"},"modified":"2024-10-07T10:10:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T06:10:02","slug":"uae-to-host-2025-asia-pacific-amateur-championship-at-emirates-golf-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/uae-to-host-2025-asia-pacific-amateur-championship-at-emirates-golf-club\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE To Host 2025 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship At Emirates Golf Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC), the Masters Tournament and The R&A has announced that the 16th Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship will be contested at Emirates Golf Club\u2019s Majlis Course in Dubai<\/a>, United Arab Emirates (UAE), 23-26 October 2025. The Championship will return to Dubai and the Middle East for the second time after its debut in the region in 2021.<\/p>\n

The field is comprised annually of the top male amateurs in the Asia-Pacific region representing the 43 Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation affiliated organisations. The champion of the 2025 Asia-Pacific Amateur will receive an invitation to compete in the following year\u2019s Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club and an exemption into The 154th Open at Royal Birkdale. The runner(s)-up will gain a place in the Final Qualifying for The Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a proud tradition of hosting the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship at world-class venues and are continuing that with the hosting of the 2025 edition at Emirates Golf Club\u2019s Majlis Course,\u201d said Taimur Hassan Amin, Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation, on behalf of the Founding Partners.<\/p>\n

\u201cDubai and the United Arab Emirates have a rich history of golf in the region, including the 2021 Asia-Pacific Amateur won by Keita Nakajima, and we are thrilled to watch some of the best players in the world return next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen firsthand the growth of golf and a number of prestigious tournaments in the United Arab Emirates over the years and we are excited for the 2025 Asia-Pacific Amateur to continue that legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notable past competitors include Hideki Matsuyama, a two-time winner of the Asia-Pacific Amateur and the 2021 Masters champion, and Cameron Smith, champion of The 150th Open. Other top players that have used the Asia-Pacific Amateur as a springboard to a notable professional career include Australia\u2019s Cameron Davis and Min Woo Lee, Chinese Taipei\u2019s C.T. Pan, the Republic of Korea\u2019s Si-Woo Kim and Kyoung-Hoon Lee, Japan\u2019s Takumi Kanaya and Keita Nakajima and New Zealand\u2019s Ryan Fox. Collectively, alumni of the Championship have gone on to win 27 tournaments on the PGA Tour to date and more than 130 events across major professional tours.<\/p>\n

\u201cBringing the collection of talent from across the Asia-Pacific region to Emirates Golf Club in 2025 will be an honor,\u201d said General Abdullah Al Hashmi, Vice Chairman of the Emirates Golf Federation.<\/p>\n

Designed by Karl Litten and established in 1988 as the first grass course in the Middle East, Emirates Golf Club\u2019s Majlis Course is located south of downtown Dubai and enjoys views of the city\u2019s skyline. The Majlis Course annually serves as the host of the DP World Tour\u2019s Dubai Desert Classic, an event won by the likes of Seve Ballesteros, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Ernie Els, the latter of which owns the course record of 61. Australia\u2019s Lucas Herbert won the Dubai Desert Classic in 2020 to become the first alum to win the event five years after his final appearance at the Asia-Pacific Amateur. Emirates Golf Club will host the Asia-Pacific Amateur for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC), the Masters Tournament and The R&A has announced that the 16th Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship will be contested at Emirates Golf Club\u2019s Majlis Course in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), 23-26 October 2025. The Championship will return to Dubai and the Middle East for the second time after its debut in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62244,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62241\/revisions\/62244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}