Vietnamese golfer wins Malaysian Amateur Open 2024

After Round 3 of the 2024 Malaysian Amateur Open, Kim was leading the leaderboard, with a 3-stroke advantage over Anh Minh. However, the Vietnamese golfer managed to catch up after 12 holes, recording 1 birdie and 1 bogey, while Kim made 3 bogeys.

On Hole 13, Kim made her only birdie of the day, regaining the lead. But Anh Minh leveled the score once again with a birdie on Hole 17. On the decisive Hole 18, Anh Minh secured a par, while Kim made a double bogey.

With the result, Anh Minh clinched the championship with a -1 score, the only negative score of the entire tournament. His victory came with a 2-stroke advantage over the RoK golfer, who finished as runner-up.

It marked Minh's sixth victory of the year following five winning titles at the Vietnam – Korea LSG Invitational, the Taiwan Amateur Championship, the Yen Bai Star Invitational, the Vietnam Amateur Open, and the Nomura Cup.

The victory therefore helped the 17-year-old golfer to improve his ranking on the World Amateur Golf, and give him a boost ahead of the Bonnalack Trophy championship, an amateur competition based on the Ryder Cup in early 2025.

Born in 2007 in Hanoi, Anh Minh was first introduced to golf when he was just six. He went on to achieve plenty of remarkable results at the national youth championship.

At the age of 14, Anh Minh made waves by becoming the youngest champion at many major tournaments, such as the Bamboo Airways Golf Tournament - Flight to the Top, the Tien Phong Golf Championship, and the National Golf Championship in 2021.

In March 2022, he dominated the international Lexus Challenge and was became the first Vietnamese amateur golfer and the youngest competitor ever to win a local pro event.

The golf prodigy was also invited and helped the Asia-Pacific team to win the Bonallack Trophy, in which an Asia-Pacific team has played against a European team every two years since 1998.