SIX Malaysian amateurs will be among the 22 Malaysian golfers vying for honours at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club from today.
The six were picked after the Maybank Malaysian Open National Qualifier and they are Gavin Kyle Green, Arie Ahmad Fauzi, Low Khai Jei, Abel Tham, Afif Mohd Radzi and Solomon Emilio Rosidin.
Twenty year old Gavin has been making his mark in the golf scene ever since he chose golf as his sport of choice. He was the youngest participant in an Asian Tour event when he played in the Iskandar Johor Open at the age of 13.
He is currently majoring in Business at the University of New Mexico.
Arie Arawan currently plays for the University of Tulsa in his junior season. He is a promising golf talent who has won the Malaysian Amateur StrokePlay Championship in 2008.
And sixteen-year-old Low Khai Jei is another amateur talent who was also chosen to be part of Maybank Malaysian Open last.
The 16 Malaysian professionals in the hunt are Danny Chia, Shaaban Hussin, Akhmal Tarmizee, Rashid Ismail, S. Murthy, S. Sivachandhran, Azman Basharuddin, Kenneth De Silva, Nicholas Fung, Sukree Othman Rashid, R. Nanchimuthu, Airil Rizman Zahari and National Qualifier winners Kemarol Baharin, Sasidaran Muthiah, Hanafiah Jamil and P. Gunasegaran.