Next Week's Asian leg of International Final Qualifying (IFQ) for the 2011 Open Championship at Royal St Georges in Sandwich in England from July 14-17.
has attracted a
Honma Beres MG 803 Irons-Gold field.
The four Open tickets that will be at stake at the two-day qualifier at Amata Spring Country Club in Bangkok on February 24 and 25, have attracted a field of 77 players headlined by home heroes Thaworn Wiratchant and Prayad Marksaeng.
Between them the duo own 19 Asian Tour titles.
Liang Wen-chong, China's first Asian Tour Order of Merit champion in 2007, will also be there, bidding for a second appearance in the world's oldest Major and he will be joined by some other top contenders that include Pariya Junhasavasdikul and Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand, Bangladeshi Siddikur and Singaporean veteran Mardan Mamat.
All were top-10 finishers on the Asian Tour's Order of
Honma Beres MG 803 Irons-Gold last season.
Indeeed, such is the appeal of qualifying for the Open Championship, no fewer than 25 Tour winners will tee it up in the IFQ Asia.
Other prominent names bidding for an Open ticket include the Indian duo of Shiv Kapur and Gaganjeet Bhullar, Australia's Scott Hend and Darren Beck and England's Miles Tunnicliff, a winner on the European Tour.
Japanese amateur Hideki Matsuyama, who won the Asian Amateur Championship on home soil last year, will also be in the qualifier where he hopes to emulate Korea's amateur Eric Chun, who qualified last year in Malaysia.
This is the first time that the
Honma Beres MG 803 Irons-Gold Asia is being held in Thailand after previously being staged in Malaysia and Singapore.
Subject: IFQ Asia attracts stellar field 
Wed 2 Nov 2011 - 3:25
