National Player An Seong-hyun "Challenging for Masters and The Open Tickets"

Mundonghyun and Song Taehun to Compete at October Melbourne ACC
Winner Earns Qualification for Two Major Tournaments Next Year

National representative An Seong-hyun (Bibong Middle School) is challenging for a ticket to a major tournament.

He will participate in the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship (AAC), held for four days from October 26 at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament was established in 2009. It is sponsored by the Asia Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC), The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A), and the Masters Tournament. 120 amateur players from the Asia-Pacific region compete. The winner earns the right to participate in the 2024 Masters and The Open.

National representative An Seong-hyeon challenges for the championship at the Asia Pacific Amateur Championship.

An Seong-hyun is a promising player who has lifted trophies at the Young Guns Match Play, Club D Amateur Echo Championship, and KakaoVX MaeKyung Amateur Golf Championship. He holds the record as the youngest player to make the cut on the Korean Professional Golfers' Association (KPGA) Korean Tour (12 years, 11 months, and 16 days). An said, "It is an honor to represent my country at the AAC," adding, "I want to achieve good results there."

Besides An Seong-hyun, three Korean players will compete: Moon Dong-hyun (Jemulpo Bangtong High School), who has won the Dream Park Cup, Blue One Cup, and Taiwan Amateur Championship, and Song Tae-hoon (University of Washington), the Oregon Stroke Play Champion. Moon said, "The AAC is known as the Masters Tournament of the amateur world," and added, "My goal is to finish in the top five by improving my weaknesses, and if given the chance, I want to win."

Korea's Han Chang-won won the inaugural tournament in 2009. Hideki Matsuyama (Japan), the 2021 Masters champion, also achieved back-to-back AAC titles in 2010 and 2011. Last year's Open champion Cameron Smith (Australia), along with Kim Si-woo, Lee Kyung-hoon, Cameron Davis, Lee Min-woo, Lucas Herbert (all Australia), Ryan Fox (New Zealand), Kodaira Satoshi (Japan), and Pan Cheng-tsung (Taiwan), have all used this tournament as a stepping stone to professional careers.

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