2018 Amata Friendship Cup

2018 Amata Friendship Cup

Dates	21–23 December 2018
Venue	Amata Spring Country Club
Location	Chonburi, Thailand
Captains	Boonchu Ruangkit Virada Nirapathpongporn (Thailand) Naomichi Ozaki (Japan)
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Thailand wins the Amata Friendship Cup

The 2018 Amata Friendship Cup (Thai: อมตะ เฟรนด์ชิพ คัพ 2018; Japanese: 2018年アマタフレンドシップカップ) was the first edition of the Amata Friendship Cup matches, held 21–23 December at the Amata Spring Country Club in Chonburi, Thailand. The Amata Friendship Cup is a team competition between the top mixed-gender professional and amateur golfers from Thailand and Japan. It is a three-day match play event between teams of twelve players with a similar format to the Ryder Cup and Solheim Cup. Boonchu Ruangkit and Virada Nirapathpongporn captained the Thai team and Naomichi Ozaki and captained the Japanese team.

Team Thailand won by a score of 15–13.

Format[]

The Amata Friendship Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. The format is as follows:^[1]

• Day 1 (Friday): Four foursome (alternate shot) matches in a morning session and four fourball (better ball) matches in an afternoon session.
• Day 2 (Saturday): Four foursome (alternate shot) matches in a morning session and four fourball (better ball) matches in an afternoon session.
• Day 3 (Sunday): 12 singles matches. All 12 players from each team participate.

Teams[]

Each team consisted of five male professionals, five female professionals, one male and one female amateur.^[1]

Day one[]

Friday, 21 December 2018

Morning foursomes[]

The opening round of four fourball matches started at 7:15 am local time. The first point of the 2018 Amata Friendship Cup was won by Team Japan, with Ryuko Tokimatsu and winning 6 & 5 against Prayad Marksaeng and Moriya Jutanugarn.^[4] Prom Meesawat and Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras came from two down after the fourth and fifth hole to beat Masahiro Kawamura and two up.^[4] Jaidee and Thidapa Suwannapura also won by one against Kodai Ichihara and one up.^[4] In the last match, Aphibarnrat and Thitikul won the seventeenth hole to halve Satoshi Kodaira and , and to end the first morning 2½–1½ in favour of Team Thailand.^[4]

	Results[5]
Marksaeng/M.Jutanugarn	6 & 5	Tokimatsu/
Meesawat/Thanapolboonyaras	2 up	Kawamura/
Jaidee/Suwannapura	1 up	Ichihara/
Aphibarnrat/Thitikul	halved	Kodaira/
2½	Session	1½
2½	Overall	1½

Afternoon four-ball[]

The afternoon session was won by team Thailand. It started at 12:00 pm local time. Jazz Janewattananond and Pornanong Phatlum won 3 & 2 over Hideto Tanihara and Nasa Hataoka, Prayad Marksaeng and Ariya Jutanugarn won the last hole to halve Kodai Ichihara and , Ryuko Tokimatsu and won for the second time, this time 4 & 3 over Prom Meesawat/Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras. The fourt pairing, and Moriya Jutanugarn won over and one up.

	Results[5]
Janewattananond/Phatlum	3 & 2	Tanihara/Hataoka
Marksaeng/A.Jutanugarn	halved	Ichihara/
Meesawat/Thanapolboonyaras	4 & 3	Tokimatsu/
/M.Jutanugarn	1 up	/
2½	Session	1½
5	Overall	3

Day two[]

Saturday, 22 December 2018

Morning foursomes[]

	Results[5]
Jaidee/Suwannapura	3 & 2	Kawamura/
Meesawat/Thanapolboonyaras	1 up	Tokimatsu/Hataoka
Janewattananond/A.Jutanugarn	7 & 5	Kodaira/
/Phatlum	6 & 5	/
3	Session	1
8	Overall	4

Afternoon four-ball[]

	Results[5]
Janewattananond/M.Jutanugarn	2 & 1	Kawamura/
Jaidee/Phatlum	1 up	Ichihara/
Aphibarnrat/A.Jutanugarn	2 & 1	Kodaira/Hataoka
Marksaeng/Thitikul	5 & 3	Tanihara/
2	Session	2
10	Overall	6

Day three[]

Sunday, 23 December 2018

Singles[]

	Results[5]
	1 up
Atthaya Thitikul	1 up
Jazz Janewattananond	1 up	Kodai Ichihara
Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras	1 up
Prom Meesawat	halved	Ryuko Tokimatsu
Thidapa Suwannapura	2 up
Thongchai Jaidee	3 & 2	Masahiro Kawamura
Pornanong Phatlum	5 & 3
Prayad Marksaeng	halved	Hideto Tanihara
Moriya Jutanugarn	1 up
Kiradech Aphibarnrat	1 up	Satoshi Kodaira
Ariya Jutanugarn	3 & 1	Nasa Hataoka
5	Session	7
15	Overall	13

Individual player records[]

Each entry refers to the Win–Loss–Half record of the player.

Thailand[]

Player	Points	Overall	Singles	Foursomes	Fourballs
Jazz Janewattananond	4	4–0–0	1–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0
Kiradech Aphibarnrat	2.5	2–0–1	1–0–0	0–0–1	1–0–0
Ariya Jutanugarn	2.5	2–1–1	0–1–0	1–0–0	1–0–1
Prom Meesawat	2.5	2–1–1	0–0–1	2–0–0	0–1–0
Moriya Jutanugarn	2	2–2–0	0–1–0	0–1–0	2–0–0
	2	2–1–0	0–1–0	1–0–0	1–0–0
Pornanong Phatlum	2	2–2–0	0–1–0	1–0–0	1–1–0
Thidapa Suwannapura	2	2–1–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	0–0–0
Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras	2	2–2–0	0–1–0	2–0–0	0–1–0
Atthaya Thitikul	1.5	1–1–1	1–0–0	0–0–1	0–1–0
Thongchai Jaidee	1	1–3–0	0–1–0	1–1–0	0–1–0
Prayad Marksaeng	1	0–2–2	0–0–1	0–1–0	0–1–1

Japan[]

Player	Points	Overall	Singles	Foursomes	Fourballs
	4	4–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	1–0–0
Ryuko Tokimatsu	2.5	2–1–1	0–0–1	1–1–0	1–0–0
	2	2–2–0	1–0–0	0–2–0	1–0–0
Masahiro Kawamura	2	2–2–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	0–1–0
Kodai Ichihara	1.5	1–2–1	0–1–0	0–1–0	1–0–1
	1.5	1–1–1	1–0–0	0–0–0	0–1–1
Hideto Tanihara	1.5	1–1–1	0–0–1	0–0–0	1–1–0
	1.5	1–1–1	0–1–0	0–0–1	1–0–0
Nasa Hataoka	1	1–3–0	1–0–0	0–1–0	0–2–0
	1	1–2–0	1–0–0	0–1–0	0–1–0
Satoshi Kodaira	0.5	0–3–1	0–1–0	0–1–1	0–1–0
	0	0–4–0	0–1–0	0–2–0	0–1–0

Partners[]

2018 Amata Friendship Cup partners[6]
Tier	Sponsoring firms
Presenting	Toyota
Platinum	Singha Corporation, Siam Commercial Bank
Gold	Siam Cement Group, Tourism Authority of Thailand (under the slogan Amazing Thailand), International Sports Promotion Society
Silver	PPTV HD 36, Fenix XCell, Ricoh

References[]

External links[]

• Official website

Coordinates: 37°22′48″N 126°37′26″E / 37.380°N 126.624°E / 37.380; 126.624