HONG KONG, Oct 19, 2012 - Eighteen-year-old Chan, a product of the Hong Kong Golf Association's junior development programme, put her professional counterparts in the shade as she coasted down the closing stretch to a two-shot victory at the Yinli Foreign Investors' Golf Club.
Opening with back-to-back rounds of 69, the former Diocesan Girls' School student, who is heading to the United States in January to continue her education, saw off the challenge of Chinese Taipei's Yu Pei Lin, the current leader of the Ladies Asian Golf Tour's money list, and a string of China LPGA Tour pros to take home the silverware.
As an amateur, Chan was unable to accept the winner's share of the HK$600,000 prize purse however, with the second-placed Yu taking the cash, if not the trophy.
In the men's division, former UBS Hong Kong Open winner Lin Wen-tang of Chinese Taipei had to settle for second place behind his compatriot Lin Keng-chi, who finished with a 10-under-total of 278. Hong Kong's Timothy Tang, an Asian Tour regular, placed fourth.