Moore, Miya and May Ready for Nomura Cup Challenge

Auckland, New Zealand: Cooper Moore, Yuki Miya and Zach May will fly the flag for New Zealand at next month’s Asia-Pacific Amateur Team Championship for the Nomura Cup.

The trio will contest the 31st edition of the biennial event at Beijing’s Bayhood (No 9) International Golf Club from September 1-4, going up against the region's strongest amateur nations over four rounds of stroke play.

Moore, a 2025 Eisenhower Trophy representative from Canterbury, headlines the group after a season that saw him claim the Australian Boys Amateur and the 2025 Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation Junior Boys’ Championship in Hong Kong.

Also from Canterbury, Miya arrives in form having claimed victory at the Pegasus Classic on the Summerset Charles Tour late last year, adding a professional event scalp to his growing amateur résumé. He led this year’s New Zealand Open at the half-way stage and was edged out in a sudden-death play-off in the Faldo Series Asia Grand Final at Vietnam’s Laguna Lang Co in April.

Rounding out the team is May, who has just wrapped up his collegiate career at Iowa State University. The Christchurch product qualified for the NCAA Columbus Regional this year and led the Cyclones in scoring at the Big 12 Championship, capping a four-year run in the Big 12 conference.

It’s a changed look for New Zealand’s Nomura Cup squad, with Zack Swanwick, Robby Turnbull and Joshua Bai all unavailable for selection.

Swanwick and Turnbull are both incumbents from New Zealand’s World Amateur Team Championship squad, while Bai was part of the New Zealand team that claimed bronze at the last Nomura Cup in 2024. Their unavailability due to collegiate commitments opens the door for Moore, Miya and May to gain valuable experience on the international stage.

New Zealand’s sole Nomura Cup triumph came in 1995, when Richard Best, Hadyn Morgan, Martin Pettigrew and David Somervaille combined to take the title at Russley Golf Club in Christchurch, the only time the championship has been staged on New Zealand soil.