Kyi Hla Han ( my, ကြည်လှဟန်, ; 13 February 1961 – 19 February 2022) was a professional

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

er from Myanmar who served as executive chairman of the

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Professional career

Han turned professional in 1980. He recorded his first professional wins in 1983 at the

Malaysian Dunlop Masters The Malaysian Dunlop Masters was a golf tournament in Malaysia in the 1970s and 1980s. Taiwanese golfer Chen Tze-ming won the 1978 event by a record 15 strokes. Despite his record-breaking win runner-up Simon Owen took the first prize money as Chen ...

and the Malaysian PGA Championship. He played on the Asian Tour from its debut season in 1995 until 2004. In 1999 he was the top money winner on the tour and that year he collected his only win in an official money Asian Tour tournament at the

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. In 2006, Han was appointed Chairman of the Asian Tour, upon the tour having been reconstituted in 2004 after having been taken over by the players themselves. He is given credit for having overseen the rapid growth of the Asian Tour.

Death

Han died in Singapore on 19 February 2022, at the age of 61.

Professional wins (12)

Asian Tour wins (1)

Asian Tour playoff record (0–1)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (1)

Other wins (10)

*1983

, Malaysian PGA Championship *1984

*1985 Malaysian PGA Championship *1989 Thai PGA Championship *1993 Hong Kong PGA Championship *1994 Hong Kong PGA Championship, Johor Masters (Malaysia) *1997

Rolex Masters The Rolex Masters was a golf tournament held in Singapore from 1973 to 1998. It was played on the Singapore Island Country Club's Bukit course. For the first three years it was played as a 54-hole invitation event, before extending to 72-holes in ...

(Singapore) *2003 Nations Cup (with Aung Win)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
''Note: Han only played in The Open Championship.''

Results in World Golf Championships

Team appearances

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(representing Burma/Myanmar):

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

References

Asian Tour golfers Burmese male golfers Golf administrators Sportspeople from Yangon 1961 births 2022 deaths {{Asia-golf-bio-stub