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Takudzwa Chitsiga

Sports Reporter

IN-FORM Zimbabwean professional golfer Kieran Vincent will return to the course in the Asian Tour when he tees off in the World City Championship presented by Hong Kong Golf Club in Hong Kong this morning.

The seventh leg of the 2023 Asian Tour season starts this morning at the Composite Course at HKGC amid much excitement as it is helping to celebrate the reopening of Hong Kong to international travelers.

Vincent, who has been making some decent outings on the tour, will be part of the field that will battle it out in the US$1 million purse tournament.

After missing the cut at the last tournament, The DCG Open represented by MasterCard at Delhi Golf Club in India last week, Vincent is expected to make amends.

In last week’s event, the Zimbabwean finished tied on position 100 after carding 77 and 73 for a six over to miss out on the cut.  It is in this week’s tournament that Vincent is expected to do well as he has not missed two consecutive cuts before.

Vincent will today tee-off at 7:10 and will play alongside Thailands’ Pawin Ingkhapradit and S Chikkarangappa of India.

Hong Kong return to the international golfing calendar after three years with the World City Championship presented by Hong Kong Golf Club (WCC), which will focus a global spotlight on the state of the game locally — and in Asia — as the best players from the region and its rising stars are set to take on Fanling.

Vincent will rub shoulders with European legends Ian Poulter and Henrik Stenson. This week’s WCC field also features well-established Asian stars in Order of Merit winners Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Thailand’s first player on the PGA Tour, his compatriot Jazz Janewattananond, and a pair of former Hong Kong Open winners from Australia in Wade Ormsby and Scott Hend.

There are also the region’s promising young talents, including freshly-minted Asian Tour card-carrying local professionals Taichi Kho and Matthew Cheung, and decorated amateurs Ratchanon “TK” Chantananuwat of Thailand, already a winner on the Asian Tour, and China’s Ding Wenyi, the current US Junior Amateur champion.