After just a week of rest, the country’s golf hotshot is back to the grind.
Rianne Malixi leaves for Thailand on Monday to compete in the Women’s Amateur Asia Pacific at Siam Golf Club Waterside course from 1 to 4 February.
This is the third outing for the 16-year-old Malixi this season, and one coming from a successful swing in Australia.
Malixi’s father Roy, bared to Tribune Golf that she’s taking no stone unturned this year, taking all the learnings and experience before she signs up with Duke University in November.
The season had an auspicious start with her rousing title run in the Master of the Amateurs in Melbourne.
She backed it up the following week with eighth-place finish at the Australian Amateur Championship in Victoria.
Rianne is expected to be joined by fellow Filipino campaigners in Thailand who will be named by the National Golf Association of the Philippines.
Last year, Malixi captured two American Junior Golf Association tournaments, placed fourth in last year’s Junior World in San Diego and racked up four victories on the Ladies Philippine Golf Tour.
She also finished runner-up in the US Girls’ Junior Championship.
