Breaking news:Asia-Pacific Amateur Team Championship winners are Minh and Yamashita.

After round two at Hải Phòng,

Vietnamese Nguyễn Anh Minh shared

first place with Japanese Masayuki

Yamashita in the Asia-Pacific Amateur

Team Championship individual ranking

thanks to his excellent play.

Following two rounds at Hải Phòng on

October 16, Nguyễn Anh Minh of

Vietnam and Japanese player Masayuki

Yamashita are tied for first place in the

Asia-Pacific Amateur Team

championship individual ranking. A

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VGA HẢI PHÒNG — Following round two

in Hải Phòng on October 16, Vietnamese

Nguyễn Anh Minh shared the top spot

with Japanese Masayuki Yamashita in

the Asia-Pacific Amateur Team

Championship individual ranking thanks

to his excellent golf play.

Minh, who started from the 10th hole

and is ranked 84th in the World Amateur

Golf Ranking, was the best player in the

field and made four birdies in his first

nine holes. He went from number six to

the top of the rankings with a fantastic

bogey-free 67, adding another at the

fifth.

“I can’t complain because bogey-free

rounds are really uncommon. The

Vietnamese team had a successful day

today, and we’re eager to see what the

next two days will bring,” Minh said.

Two further Vietnamese golfers, Hồ Anh

Huy and Lê Khánh Hưng. Huy finished 4-

over 76, while Hưng finished even-par.

At the 2024 Nomura Cup at the Vinpearl

Golf course in Hải Phòng, Yamashita,

whose older sibling Miyu is a star on the

Japan LPGA Tour, shot six birdies and

one bogey to have the same total.

Yamashita and Minh are tied at six-under

138 in the individual rankings, two shots

ahead of Declan O’Donovan of Australia

and Robby Turnbull and Joshua Bai of

New Zealand. Through his efforts, 21-

year-old Yamashita also helped Japan

climb to the top of the team rankings

leaderboard.

We all played well today and scored

below par. Yamashita, who thinks the

Japanese team is in a good position to

win the Nomura Cup again, adding,

“We’re pretty confident we can go on and

win the trophy.” After winning the cup in

2022, Japan is vying for its eleventh

overall and second consecutive trophy,

two strokes ahead of hosts Vietnam and

New Zealand. On one-under 287, Korea

and Australia are seven strokes behind.