Shannon Tan is enjoying this stretch of the Ladies European Tour (LET) season and being back in Asia.
The Singaporean made history at the start of the year becoming the first player from her nation to secure an LET card.
Tan then won the season-opening Magical Kenya Ladies Open to become the first winner from Singapore.
It’s back-to-back weeks in Asia with last week’s Aramco Team Series presented by PIF – Shenzhen in China followed by this week’s Wistron Ladies Open – Taiwan.
The 20-year-old has been enjoying the food and also getting to see players from other Tours, as well as one of her best friends Bianca Pagdanganan.
“It’s good being back in Asia, it’s closer to home! China was good because I speak some Chinese, it was good to speak to fans in Chinese,” she said. “I like the food, I love the food back in my home element so that’s been good as well.
“It’s definitely good to play against them. It’s my first time playing in Taiwan and playing with the TLPGA players, I met some of them in college and have known some of them. It’s great to have players from a different continent.
“Bianca is my bestie! It’s the first LET event we’ve played together. She texted me as soon as she got here. I don’t see her often, only three times this year. She said to just hit fairways and greens, but our games are very different.
“You see the same 100 people in normal LET events and it’s nice to come here and see an extra 40 people that you haven’t seen this year. It’s definitely good.”
Tan has seen her game trending in the right direction recently with a T36 at La Sella Open followed by a T21 at the Lacoste Ladies Open de France and T10 last week in Shenzhen.
Sunrise Golf and Country Club is the host of the co-sanctioned event between the LET and the TLPGA which will see 108 professionals teeing it up.
With wide fairways, small greens and forecasted windy conditions, the LET rookie believes ball-striking will be important.
She continued: “Honestly, the past three weeks so China, France and Spain my ball-striking has been really good. I wasn’t putting too well in Spain and France, but I figured it out last week and I putted it quite well.
“This week you have to be a good ball-striker because the greens are tiny. My main goal will be just hitting it in the middle of the green because the greens are so small, it’s a 20-foot putt max. It’s fairways, greens and let the rest take care of itself.
“Usually if it’s a bigger green, you want to be on the correct side of the green or somewhere I know it’ll be okay, but on this course, I think it’ll be okay. It is quite slopy so being on the correct side of the green will help but at the same time your miss is really small.”
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