Heading for Shanghai

The once-in-a-lifetime trip will conclude with a match between the HKGA juniors and their peers from the China Golf Association played on the Championship course at Sheshan. The match will feature two boys and two girls in each team with D’Souza and Lee being joined by two further players selected by the HKGA. The CGA will select their team of four. The match format will be 18-hole stroke play with the winners decided by the lowest aggregate of the best three scores for each team.

Thanks to a brilliant four-under 67 in wet conditions, D’Souza finished at one-under-par over three days to win by a healthy margin from the Hong Kong duo of Lou Tan and overnight leader Ku Lung-hei. In the girls’ division, Vivian Lee finished on 218 to win convincingly by 13 from Chinese Taipei’s Sasaki Yukie with Hong Kong’s Emily Leung in third.

With more than 90 players in the Junior Open field, several pupils from Pun U Association Wah Yan and SKH St. James’ Primary Schools were also at Discovery Bay to watch the action unfold. The local school children also took part in some ShortGolf training as part of the HKGA’s HSBC Golf For Schools programme.