Pacific amateurs golf championships

Tommy Fleetwood International Pathway Series: Rakshit Dahiya is the only one of the five Indian amateurs here at the 16th Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship to have played his elite amateur event before, but none of the other four lack in international experience. The 2025 AAC begins on Thursday and continues through to Sunday.

The five players, who feature in India colours this week at the world-class Emirates Golf Club’s Majlis Course from Thursday, have all gone out, often on their own, to gain valuable experience. The Championship returns for the second time to Dubai, which hosted the event earlier in 2021. The Majlis Course at Emirates Golf Club will host the Championship for the first time.

No Indian has won the prestigious title, though Rayhan Thomas, now a professional, was runner-up in 2018 in Sentosa, Singapore. Interestingly, Rayhan grew up in Dubai and is now based in the US, where he plays on the Korn Ferry Tour.