Hyung-Mo Kang, who will spearhead the Asia-Pacific team charge, is impressed with Indian amateur golfer Karan Taunk and said his knowledge of the course will be a big asset for the side during the ninth edition of Sir Michael Bonallack Trophy which begins tomorrow.
Kang, who was the team captain of Korea for Asia-Pacific Team Championship last year, said, "Since our team has the local player - Karan Taunk who is quite familiar with this course, will be a big asset for us.
"I am impressed with the way Karan has been giving advice to the team members about each hole of KGA in the past two days. I am quite confident about my team giving a tough competition to Europeans this year."
Kang looked confident about the chances of his team putting up a great show at KGA.
"The advantage that we have here is that all of our players are quite used to be playing in this kind of weather. Also, most of them have won either the prestigious Nomura Cup or Asia-Pacific Golf Team Championship," he said.
"Players like Geoff Drakeford and Taylor MacDonald of Australia, Chinese duo Zecheng Dou and Jin Cheng, Chieh-Po Lee of Chinese Taipei, Shinichi Mizuno of Hong Kong, Korean boys Nam-Hun Kim and Soo-Min Lee, Japanese Daichi Sato and Kenta Konishi and Joshua Munn of New Zealand, are all playing very well in their regions."
Kang acknowledged that the Team Europe has a great line up of players including Renato Paratore of Italy who has already won Junior Orange Bowl International a few weeks ago and Winner of Commercial Banl Qatar Masters, Dominic Foos of Germany.
"Team Europe has more experience of playing foursomes matches than our Team Asia-Pacific. There should be more amateur tournaments between both the continents to give players extra exposure," added Kang.
