Singapore: Mizuki Hashimoto and Shannon Tan have reached new personal highs in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) following their outstanding performances in last week’s 42nd Queen Sirikit Cup.

Hashimoto fired a nine-under-par total of 279 at Singapore’s Laguna National Golf Resort Club to lead Japan to their first Asia-Pacific Amateur Ladies Team Championship crown since 2002.

She also had the distinction of winning the award as the leading individual, finishing one stroke ahead of Singaporean Tan.

It was the second notable recent success for the 19-year-old who emerged triumphant at the third Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific in Abu Dhabi late last year.

Thanks to her latest winning effort, Hashimoto has advanced 34 places in the WAGR to 23rd – third among Japanese, behind only Tsubasa Kajitani, winner of last year’s Augusta National Women’s Amateur, and Rin Yoshida.

Meanwhile, Tan’s terrific showing on home soil has enabled her to rise 25 spots to 51st. At Laguna National, Tan went the first 65 holes of the tournament without dropping a stroke. A double-bogey five at the par-three 12th, where she found water off the tee, proved to be the only blemish on her scorecard over four rounds.

Other Queen Sirikit Cup participants to move up the rankings included Japan’s Miku Ueta (up 13 to 24th), Koreans Lee Ji-hyun (up two to 53rd) and Kim Min-byeol (up six to 86th), Chinese Taipei’s Huang Ting-hsuan (up eight to 83rd), New Zealand’s Fiona Xu (up eight to 108th), Indian Sneha Singh (up five to 137th) and Malaysian Liyana Durisic (up 23 to 170th).

In the men’s rankings, Japan’s Taichiro Ideriha has broken into the top-150 with a 25-ranking jump to 145th following victory in the Kyushu Amateur Championship.

He took the title thanks to scores in the 60s in the middle two rounds of the 72-hole event. After an opening 71, Ideriha scored 65 and 64 before a closing 73. His 273 total gave him a one-shot win.