The Asia Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC), Masters Tournament and R&A have announced that the 16th Asia Pacific Amateur Championship will be held from October 23 to 26, 2025 at the Majlis Course, Emirates Golf Club, Dubai.
The championship returns to Dubai and the Middle East for the second time since it was first held in the region in 2021.
The field annually features the top male amateurs from the Asia-Pacific region, representing the 43 Asia-Pacific Golf Federation member clubs. The winner of the 2025 Asia Pacific Amateur will receive an invitation to next year’s Masters Tournament at Augusta National and an exemption to the 154th Open at Royal Birkdale. The runner-up will qualify for the final qualifying round of the British Open.
Taimur Hassan Amin, chairman of Asia Pacific Golf, said: “We have a proud tradition of hosting the Asia Pacific Amateur Championship in world-class venues, and the 2025 edition will once again be hosted by Emirates Golf. We will continue that by hosting it on the club’s Majlis Course.” Coalition, on behalf of the founding partners. “Dubai and the UAE have a rich history of golf in the region, with Keita Nakajima winning the 2021 Asia Pacific Amateur, and we look forward to seeing some of the world’s best players return next year. I’m excited to do it.”

Notable past participants include Hideki Matsuyama, two-time Asia Pacific Amateur winner and 2021 Masters champion, and Cameron Smith, champion of the 150th British Open. Other top players who used the Asia Pacific Amateur as a springboard to notable professional careers include Australia’s Cameron Davis and Lee Min-woo, Chinese Taipei’s CT Pan, South Korea’s Kim Si-woo and Lee Kyung-hoon, and Japan. Includes Takumi Kanaya. and Keita Nakajima and New Zealand’s Ryan Fox. The Championship alum has won 27 tournaments on the PGA Tour to date and more than 130 events on major professional tours.
“It is an honor to bring talent from across the Asia-Pacific region to Emirates Golf Club in 2025,” said General Abdullah Al Hashmi, Vice-President of the Emirates Golf Federation. “We have seen first-hand the growth of golf in the UAE and numerous prestigious tournaments over the years, and we are excited that the 2025 Asia Pacific Amateur will continue that tradition.”
Designed by Karl Litten and established in 1988 as the first turf course in the Middle East, Emirates Golf Club’s Majlis Course is located south of downtown Dubai and offers views of the city’s skyline. The Majlis Course plays host to the DP World Tour’s Dubai Desert Classic each year, won by the likes of Seve Ballesteros, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Ernie Els. Australia’s Lucas Herbert won the 2020 Dubai Desert Classic, becoming the first graduate to win the event, five years after his last appearance at the Asia Pacific Amateur.