PGM eye four golfers to qualify for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

KUALA LUMPUR: Professional Golf of Malaysia (PGM) is vying four Malaysian golfers -- two males and two females to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

PGM Chairman, Tun Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid, said the next one-and-a- half years would be a crucial timeline for the association to ensure they would meet the target.

“The only Key Performance Index that I can think of right now is the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and with one and half years remaining, it would be crucial for us to achieve the goal,” he told reporters after launching the PGM Tour Calendar for 2019 season at PGM headquarters, today.

In this regard, Ahmad Sarji hoped the Malaysian golfers would do well in the Asian Development Tour (ADT) tournaments next year and putting themselves among the top 300 to qualify for the Games.

“I have a great confidence that our players would do well because all of them are very young and should perform well in order to earn world ranking points.

In the same note, Ahmad Sarji revealed that PGM has proposed six potential golfers to play in the 2019 Asian Tour calendar through country exemption.

They are Shahriffuddin Ariffin, Sukree Othman, Amir Nazrin Jailani, Kim Leung Kwang, R. Nachimuthu and Wilson Choo.

The 2019 PGM Tour calendar is unique and innovative as it combined six segments of competition under one calendar, totalling a prize purse of RM3.895 million.

The tournament are nine Asian Tour Development events, six PGM closed events, four PGM qualifying school events, 10 ladies events, the IGT-PGM Ryder Cup style (to be hosted by Indonesian Golf Tour) and also one PGM seniors event. Bernama