The team for the four-day stroke play event will feature one of India's brightest young golfers - Viraj Madappa of Kolkata who won the Taiwan Amateur Golf Championship earlier this year and also became the first Indian to play at the Porter Cup.
Having played this tournament twice in the past (Australia in 2014; China in 2013), Madappa is expected to mentor first timers Samarth Dwivedi, Karandeep Kochhar, Priyanshu Singh and Veer Ahlawat at the Clearwater Bay country & golf club.
The championship features more than 120 players from 37 countries including Australian Ryan Ruffels, currently ranked 8th in the world, his countryman Antonio Murdaca who is also a defending champion and the 2012 AAC Champion Guan Tianlang from China.
IGU has been sending players for the Asia-Pacific Amateur since its inauguration in 2009 and the players have been selected as per their World Amateur Golf Rankings.
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Arun Kumar Singh, Director General, IGU, who is accompanying the team, said: "The field is quite difficult but we have the right skills amongst the six players. All our boys will have to believe in themselves and should imagine their name on top of the leader board on the final day."
The winner and runner-up will also be eligible to compete in the Open qualifying series, Asia or Australasia for the 2016 Open Championship to be played at the Royal Troon Golf Club, Scotland and the winner will also receive an invitation to the 2016 Qatar Masters.
Continuing under its banner of 'Creating Future Heroes', the AAC will feature 120 players from the APGC's member associations and will be played over 72-holes of stroke play, with a cut for the leading 60 players plus ties after 36 holes. In the past, AAC has produced an attractive list of winners that includes two-time champion Japanese Hideki Matsuyama who has finished in top-20 in all four majors after turning professional in 2013.