QUEEN SIRIKIT BACK TO CHINA

 

 The 26th Queen Sirikit Cup Amateur Ladies Asian Invitational Golf Team Championship organized by China Golf Association will be played at WuYi Fountain Palm Golf Club, Jiangmen, China on April 12th till 14th, 2004. This is the event second time held in China since 1992 at Chung Shan Hot Spring Golf Club.

 The "Queen Sirikit Cup" was an inaugural event played in Bangkok in 1979 at a time when ladies golf in Southeast Asia was in its infant age. Although the World Amateur Golf Championship was popular, there were no Asian ladies amateur event was considered beyond the standard of women's amateur golf in many countries. In this regard, the founding president of the Thailand Amateur Ladies Golf Association, Mom Kobkaew Abhakara, sent a request to the Royal Family for a trophy in Her Majesty's named the "Queen Sirikit Cup" was granted and a tournament designed to women's amateur golf in the region was born. The first event was held in 1979 and 12 countries were invited. Nine countries arrived Bangkok in Februrary 1979 to compete the tournament and Japan took the first trophy while Thailand finished runner-up.

 Over the past twenty years history and development, the Queen Sirikit Cup Amateur Ladies Asian Invitational Golf Team Championship had been grown to recruit fourteen countries in the Asia-Pacific region from as far south as New Zealand stretch to north as Korea and west as India. Every country will take turn to venue the event to make it the world's one of the most important. To increase the strength and standard of play of the event thus to develop the women's amateur golf to reach the most impressive milestone is the very reason for the event's founding.

 The first Queen Sirikit Cup held in China was in 1992 at Chung Shan Hot Spring Golf Club which had brought the world's attention to the ladies golf in China. The host venue of next year, WuYi Fountain Palm Golf Club was invested by Hong Kong Macau celebrity Dr. Stanley Ho. The club is located in the city of Jiangmen which is a famous overseas Chinese hometown in Guangdong Province. The WuYi 27-hole championship golf course was designed by world renowned Nicklaus Design. Under the leadership of Mr. Aylwin Tai, the Director and General Manager of the club, WuYi Fountain Palm Golf Club has been ranked as one of the best in China, no matter for its course maintenance or its club management. Since the club's opening in 2000, it has held several big events such as the 2000 WuYi Cup Invitational Golf Tournament, the Nomura Cup Asia Pacific Amateur Golf Team Championship in 2001, the China Open Amateur Men's & Women's Golf Championship in 2001 and continuous four years'(2000-2003) Angela Leong Cup Junior Golf Championship. The success of the tournaments in the past few years had proved that the facilities and paying effort of the club had brought out its ability and experience for big tournaments.

 The co-organizer of the 26th Queen Sirikit Cup is Richtone Worldwide Holdings Ltd., a well known golf company in the China's golf industry. The company has signed a 15 years contract with Volvo Car Corporation and China Golf Association in 1995 to jointly host the Volvo China Tour, which is the first PGA Tour in China. This inaugural tournament has been successfully held for eight years which had been considered one of the most important golf event in Asian region. As the vision of the company, Richtone Worldwide Holdings Ltd. has adopted its golf business in China and other region since its opening in 1994. Many major golf events and activities in China had been organized by the company in the past years like the China Women Amateur Golf Championship in 1996, 1998 Ericsson China International Amateur Golf Invitational Tournament, Omega Monthly Medals 1998, Lakewood Golf League, Eric Tsang Amateur Golf Fund, 1999 Ericsson China International Golf Invitational Tournament, 1999 Volvo City Team Challenge Tournament, 2000 Ericsson China PGA Challenge(Guangzhou, Macau, Shanghai, Beijing), 2000 WuYi Angela Leong Cup Junior Golf Championship, 2000 WuYi Cup International Golf Invitational Tournament, Nomura Cup Asia Pacific Amateur Golf Team Championship and China Open Amateur Men's and Women's Golf Championship.

 (enclosed with the list of hosting countries and winning teams of Queen Sirikit Cup)




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