Malaysia, Thailand acquire golf gold medals

The individual stroke event ended on May 15, in which Natthakritta Vongtaveelap (Thailand) won the women’s gold medal, while Ervin Chang (Malaysia) won the men’s first place.

The team section is in a duel format, with eight men’s and six women’s teams, on Heron Lake par72. Each pair of matches has three men’s matches and two women’s matches, of which one point is won and half a point is drawn. Men’s team touching two points, women touching one and a half points will win the right to advance, draw will play extra holes, applied to the final. Thailand competes for gold medals of both sexes with Malaysia.

In the men’s final, Thailand and Malaysia both have one point after the first two matches, so they have to wait for the pair of Pongsapak Laopakdee – Rhaasrikanesh Kavanathi. The Malaysian representative led Pongsapak from holes 4 to 13, losing his advantage at hole 14 after a shot into the lagoon to the left of the fairway. But after that negligence, Rhaasrikanesh led through the next three holes and won with a birdie chip from the green of hole 18.

The men’s bronze medal belongs to Indonesia – the team won two out of three matches against Singapore. The sea lion island nation also lost the bronze medal when they sent their representative Hailey Loh Suanne to play in the extra hole with Rianne Mikhaela Malixi Aala of the Philippines. Singapore’s representative lost on the fourth extra hole when Aala recorded a birdie from a chip on the green.

The Thai women’s team defeated the opponent when Eila Galitsky won by 1 up Jeneath Wong and Natthakritta Vongtaveelap drew Mirabel Ting Ern Hui.

From hole 7 to the end of the match, Galitsky only lost hole 10, the rest led. In contrast, Vongtaveelap was led from holes 3 to 14, leveling the game at hole 15. After losing hole 16, Vongtaveelap accidentally won hole 17 when Hui’s caddy tried to use his foot to “fill” the dent in the field caused by a stroke. of the previous player. This dent was close to the ball, so the action of the caddie was in the category of “deliberately improving playing conditions”, causing Hui to be adjudged to lose the 17th hole. After that, Hui drew the 18th hole and divided the points with the opponent.

31 SEA Games golf results

Quoc Huy