KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Nicholas Fung was one step closer to fulfilling his dream of playing with American major winner Phil Mickelson after he won the Palembang Musi Championship yesterday to qualify for next month’s Singapore Open.
Victory in the $150,000 tournament in Indonesia yesterday shot Fung to the top of the Southeast Asian golf tour’s order of merit and qualified him for the $6 million European and Asian Tour event in Singapore.
“This is fantastic,” Fung told reporters. “Now I get to play in the Singapore Open. It is my dream to play with Phil Mickelson,” the world number 1,372 added.
Thailand’s Gunn Charoenkul finished runner up. REUTERS
