Lam Scorches to Mid-Summer Victory

Lucas Lam fired a two-over-par 72 on the New Course at Hong Kong Golf Club to claim a one-shot victory over fellow national squad member Leon D’Souza in the HKGA Mid-Summer Classic last month

Ian Gardner, General Manager of Hong Kong Golf Club presents the trophy to Lucas Lam

More than 270 golfers were in action during the ever-popular two-day event for Hong Kong Golf Association subscribers. Sixty-seven players also qualified for the prestigious MercedesTrophy Hong Kong 2015 in what was the final of three qualifying events for the internationally-renowned MercedesTrophy event back at Fanling on June 26.

Having reached the turn in four over par, 18-year-old Lam steadied himself in the blistering heat and found two birdies on the back nine to clinch the Men’s Strokeplay division. Ma Chak-lin claimed the Men’s Stableford prize with 26 points and Estee Leung was the Ladies Stableford winner with 35 points.

Leading final scores:

Men’s Gross Strokeplay:
72 – Lucas Lam; 73 – Leon D’Souza; 74 – Benjamin Hui, Byron Tan Kit-kan; 75 – Varun Bery, Nick Woolcott-Brown.

Men’s Nett Strokeplay:
65 – Varun Bery; 69 – Norton Chan; 70 – Byron Tan.

Men’s Gross Stableford:
26 – Ma Chak-lin; 24 – John Yiu; 23 – Wong Wing-on, Li Rui; 22 – Tie Loon-seong.

Ladies’ Gross Stableford:
35 – Estee Leung; 33 – Selina Li; 31 – Chloe Chan, Emily Leung, Inara Sharma, Jasmine Kwan.