The National Amateur Championship for Men and Women 2020 with the sponsorship of Diamond sponsor Khanh Hoa Mineral Water Joint Stock Company (Vikoda) officially kicked off on July 16th with the participation of many Vietnam’s top young golfers.
From the beginning of 2020, Vikoda officially became a Diamond sponsor for 6 national amateur championship golf tournaments, and will also be the exclusive drinking water supplier during the tournaments, in which the golf tournament for the Men National Amateur Championship (VAO) and the National Women Championship golf tournament (VLAO) in 2020 simultaneously kicked off on the morning of July 16th and ended with many notable highlights.
These are exciting rounds, intense ranking competitions, the maturity of young athletes or overcoming the challenge of veteran golfers. This year, VAO has more than 120 Athletes and VLAO has nearly 40 participating female athletes. The two tournaments welcomed the new champions in different but emotional ways are Nguyen Dang Minh at the VAO and Hanakho Kawasaki at the VLAO.
After the first day of competition, two young Vietnamese golf talents both showed impressive performance when beating below the standard. Thereby, respectively, took the top spot on the day VAO and VLAO opened on Vinpearl Golf South Hoi An.
After many rounds, Nguyen Dang Minh had a fierce competition with Dang Quang Anh in the VAO final round and brought the audience to great emotional levels. At the end of the round with 72 strokes, 15-year-old golfer Nguyen Dang Minh defeated Dang Quang Quanh in a duel and won the VAO 2020 championship.
Nguyen Dang Minh excellently won the VAO 2020 championship
In addition, the tournament also witnessed the participation of football players Cong Vinh and supermodel Binh Minh with many impressive achievements. Cong Vinh has been playing golf for 3 years and also owns a handicap level of 5.8. The first time attending VAO, Cong Vinh only set a target to pass the cut. Supermodel Binh Minh has been in the golf world for more than two years, has a handicap of 8.5, regularly competes in movement tournaments and regard VAO as an opportunity to try and gain experience.
Cong Vinh passed the cut on the first time attending a national golf tournament
In the VLAO tournament, Hanakho Kawasaki – a golfer born in 1999 with two Vietnamese-Japanese bloodlines, competed overwhelmingly in all 3 rounds and won the championship. With this victory, Hanako took a new step in the world amateur ranking at 686 on the WAGR chart.
Hanako is next to her 3rd trophy at VLAO 2020
Vikoda – one of the Diamond sponsors of the entire amateur golf season in 2020, known as a long-standing mineral water producer in Vietnam, owning the quality of 100% natural mineral water with self alkalinity. The course pH = 8.5 is very good for health, Vikoda has received the trust of a large number of consumers throughout the country and appeared at many major sporting events, especially in national professional golf tournaments, supporting athletes to achieve the best results in the tournaments.
This not only affirms Vikoda’s brand name and quality in Vietnam, but also demonstrates Vikoda’s commitment to the social community. In the coming time, besides the goal of becoming one of the leading enterprises in the Vietnamese market in the field of drinking water, implementing the mission of improving and enhancing the health of Vietnamese people, Vikoda will continue to sponsor many sporting events in the country, contribute to improving the professionalism of tournaments, bringing about good values that sports bring to the social community.
