Chonlatit Chuenboonngam of Thailand clinched his first win on the Asian Development Tour today with a masterful seven-shot victory in the Gunung Geulis Invitational, supported by Nomura.

The 24-year-old Thai led the event from the second round and maintained his lead on the undulating fairways of the Gunung Geulis Country Club East course, his six birdies more than enough to compensate for two bogeys and a double in his two-under total of 68.

“I’m very happy to win today,” he said after his round. “The course and pins were very tough again today. If you can keep it in the fairway it works, but some holes the fairway is very narrow. I just played it shot by shot, tried not to think too much.”

Jonathan Wijono. Photo by Yulius Martinus / OB Golf

Chuenboonngam, who finished fourth in the first playing of this event in 2019, managed to stay out of trouble until the eighth hole.

“Hit driver but it went left into the rough and I couldn’t see the green,” he explained. “I tried to hit a high draw but the ball wouldn’t come back and I needed up over the green and couldn’t play a shot. Had to drop and then chip, two putts.”

Fellow Thai Nirun Sae-Ueng (70) started the day in joint second with Indonesia’s Jonathan Wijono (68), but both were unable to keep pace with the leader, dropping back to fifth and fourth places respectively.

Suttijet Kooratanapisan. Photo by Yulius Martinus / OB Golf

Making a strong challenge on the last day of the US$100,000 ADT event were the Thai pair of Suttijet Kooratanapisan (272) and Puwit Anupansuebsai (273). Both players posted the day’s low scores of 66, along with Udayan Mane (279), Jerry Chen (274), Filip Lundell (280) and Suteepat Prateeptienchai (280), but were ultimately unable to catch Chuenboonngam’s four round total of 265.

First round leader Chen Guxin of China, who won on the ADT for the first time at the Blue Canyon Classic in May, managed to make up for a poor showing in round three with a creditable 68 today. His co-leader on Tuesday night, Peter Gunawan of Indonesia, struggled to repeat his opening round score of 65 and will no doubt be disappointed by his poor finish.

Puwit Anupansuebai. Photo by Yulius Martinus / OB Golf

Malaysia’s Shariffuddin Ariffin bounced back from an opening round of 71 with three straight scores of 68, securing solo eighth place on five under par, while compatriot Amir Nazrin (68) and Lloyd Jefferson Go (70) of the Philippines shared ninth spot.

Tawit Polthai of Thailand secured 11th place with a closing score of 67, improving each day from his opening round of 74 and finishing with a total score of 278. Mattkillen of England and Sarun Sirithon of Thailand shared 12th spot with Udayan Mane on one-under-par.