Guan, 14, playing in this week's Open qualifier
- By Ryan Lavner
- Feb 27, 2013 11:22 AM ET
Already with a spot in one major championship this year, 14-year-old Tianlang Guan will set his sights on securing a berth in the Open Championship at this week’s International Final Qualifying, which begins Thursday in Asia.
Four Open berths are available this week at Amata Spring Country Club in Chonburi, Thailand – also the site of Guan’s victory at the Asia-Pacfiic Amateur Championship, where he earned a spot in The Masters.
“I have played at some professional golf tournaments before and it is always great to play with the professional golfers,” Guan said in a release. “I can learn so much from them and the experience of playing at the professional events.”
Other notables in the field include Washington sophomore Cheng-Tsung Pan, the fifth-ranked amateur in the world, Hideki Matsuyama, who played in the Masters in both 2011 and ’12, and former Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cupper James Byrne.
The other IFQ sites: Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club in South Africa on March 5-6; Gleneagles CC in Texas on May 20; and Sunningdale in Europe on June 24.
The 2013 Open will be held at Muirfield on July 18-21.
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Tags: British Open
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