SEA Games: Singapore golfer Jonathan Woo out to wow

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Talk to Singapore golfer Jonathan Woo about American collegiate sports, and his eyes light up.

Ask the University of Oregon undergrad how the Ducks — the mascot of the school’s athletic programme — are doing this year, and he will ask you “which sport?”.

Woo himself is a student-athlete in the US. Ranked No. 1 on the Oregon golf team, the 23-year-old won the Duck Invitational in March. The third-year social science major also helped his university retain the team title in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) event.

Next week, he will be shedding his college colours for the red and white of Singapore. Woo, along with Marc Ong, Jerome Ng and Abdul Hadi, are leading the Republic’s charge for gold in men’s golf at the South-east Asia (SEA) Games in Naypyidaw, Myanmar.

Speaking to The New Paper yesterday on his return to Singapore before flying off to Myanmar on Thursday, Woo believes he and his teammates are on course to ending a gold drought which stretches back 24 years, to Samson Gimson's 1989 success in Kuala Lumpur.