Eight Asean juniors off to Sawgrass, thanks to CIMB

Eight Asean juniors off to Sawgrass, thanks to CIMB


Monday November 1, 2010

Eight Asean juniors off to Sawgrass, thanks to CIMB
CIMB Group have rewarded eight of the region’s junior golfers with scholarships for an overseas training stint.

The intensive training programme will be conducted by the PGA Tour Academy at their headquarters at TPC Sawgrass in Florida from Dec 13-20.

This is part of the CIMB junior golf development programme. The four boys and four girls are from Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.

They are Malaysians Evrin Chang and Loy Hee Ying, Indonesians Jordan Surya Irawan and Nadya Rosiana, Thais Danthai Boonma and Virunpat Olankitkunchai, and Singaporeans Tan Yan Ming and Rachel Lim.

The CIMB Group chief executive officer, Datuk Seri Nazir Razak, said: “We are very pleased that through our title sponsorship of the Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia, we are able to create development opportunities for the region’s top juniors with top coaches from the United States and also linking them with the PGA Tour.

“We believe that this corporate social responsibility initiative of the Group will lay a strong foundation in building future golf professionals in the region.”

Kicking off the CIMB junior development programme this year were training camps conducted in June and September by the PGA Tour Academy’s top coaches – Travis Fulton, Shane Gillespie and John Stahlschmidt.

The juniors also went for coaching clinics this week conducted by professionals taking part in the Asia Pacific Classic – India’s Arjun Atwal, the United States’ Ricky Barnes and Singapore’s Lam Chih Bing.