2025/07/01
The fourth stop of the 2025 CHAU-SHI Series, the Da Jia Charity Open with a total purse of NT$3 million, will be held from tomorrow (July 2) through July 5 at CCK Golf Club. The 72-hole, four-round event has attracted 124 players from four countries, including 119 professionals and five amateurs. The champion will receive NT$500,000. This is the first time the Da Jia Charity Association has served as a title sponsor for a Taiwan Tour event.
This tournament is personally title-sponsored by Mercuries Group Honorary Chairman Wong Chau-shi and organized by the PGA of Taiwan (TPGA). The Da Jia Charity Association is the title host for this leg, with CCK Golf Club as co-organizer. It is also the Association’s first time co-hosting a professional men’s event in Taiwan with the TPGA.
The field includes 122 players from Australia, Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan—117 professionals and five amateurs—comprising 95 Taiwanese and 18 Japanese players.
Today (July 1) an 18-hole pro-am was held at CCK, featuring 40 professionals paired with more than 120 amateurs in a new scramble format. The team of pro Wen Cheng-hsiang and three amateurs shot 57, 15 under par, to win. Each amateur received a TaylorMade hybrid club.
At the pro-am banquet, Association Chairman Liao Chi-you announced a special bonus: any player who makes a hole-in-one on any of the three par-3s during the four tournament rounds will earn NT$100,000, personally sponsored by him.
The Da Jia Charity Association is a nationwide, non-profit foundation established in accordance with law. Calling on people to join in doing good, it unites donors of money and effort under the spirit of “sharing others’ hunger and rescuing others’ peril,” with goals that include social welfare and moral education. It supports disadvantaged groups and seniors living alone, assists children in need with studies, daily necessities, and psychological support, and helps the government or other bodies carry out social-welfare projects and public-interest activities.
The CHAU-SHI Series was founded by Wong Chau-shi, one of the founders of Mercuries Group. In 2021, when the Taiwanese tour schedule and prize money shrank due to the pandemic, he personally underwrote six events with NT$2 million each, totaling NT$12 million, laying the foundation for the 2021 season. Now in its fifth straight year, the same sponsorship model continues. The number of Series events has increased from eight last year to ten this year, bringing the total TPGA schedule to twenty tournaments.
The Series also offers a special NT$200,000 bonus from Hung Lin Construction Chairman Lin Kuo-er to the season money leader, who also earns an invitation to the next year’s Mercuries Taiwan Masters.
Nine of the top fifteen on the current TPGA money list are in the field, including No. 1 Shen Wei-cheng (Sanhwa TPGA Championship winner), No. 5 Tawit Polthai of Thailand, No. 8 Lu Sun-yi, No. 10 Hsieh Ting-wei, as well as Liu Yen-hung, Teng Kao, Hsu Yu-cheng, Huang Yi-tseng, and Hsieh Min-hsuan.
After two rounds, the top 50 and ties advance to the final two rounds. The winner receives NT$500,000 and the runner-up NT$250,000.
CCK Golf Club, the venue for this Open, is nearly fifty years old. The par-72 layout measures 7,140 yards—long, with tree-lined fairways favoring long hitters. The flat terrain and dry conditions yield extra roll for accurate drivers, easing approach shots, yet the elevated greens and thick surrounds demand precise touch. This week’s extreme heat will further test players’ stamina, heat tolerance, and patience.
Special prizes
• Hole-in-one awards:
– Holes 4, 11 & 17 – NT$20,000 from the club and NT$100,000 from the Da Jia Charity Association
– Hole 11 – a Bell & Ross watch valued at NT$168,000 from Tung Hui Watch Company for the first professional ace during the four official rounds
– All holes – a free night in the presidential suite at Lishan Guesthouse, any day, courtesy of Da An Group
• SOCH Furniture | Diandiansleep will award NT$10,000 for the low round on each of rounds 3 and 4 (split in the event of ties).
Athletic trainers will be available on July 4 and 5.
The course is closed to spectators on-course for all four rounds; viewing areas are limited to the tees of holes 1 and 10 and the greens of holes 9 and 18.
The final two rounds will be recorded, edited to 60-minute highlight shows, and broadcast at 4 p.m. on July 15 and 16. Coverage will stream on TPGA’s Facebook page, VL Sports, and YouTube. Tournament news will also appear on the TPGA website, LINE Golfourit, LINE Today, and Yahoo Sports.
