The Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific (WAAP) Championship brings together the worlds most promising young golfers. It’s a breeding ground for future stars, a showcase of talent, passion, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. This year the tournament was held in Wellington at the Royal Wellington Golf Club in New Zealand.
I was lucky to be on the ground filming at this event across the week, capturing content for the broadcast and social channels for IMG UK and The R&A. The content team utilised the Sony FX6 and FX3 camera systems to capture content and then edit this content to turnaround quickly. Tasks were varied and included shooting items for the broadcast, shooting and editing reels for social content and capturing key activations across the week.
In this environment you have to move quickly while being accurate, with little time to analyse things before moving on. Often following the leaders across multiple holes of golf the play would move quickly. As a videographer being versatile in this environment is key, picking off multiple shots in slow motion and real time, bringing back a selection of differently framed shots for the content team to feed into their edits. Sometimes I would edit my own content and other times this would be handed over to other members of the team to edit the content.
The content team utilised the Sony FX6 paired with the Sachtler Aktiv6 Flowtech75 tripod for quick access to height adjustment on the go. These tripods are also lightweight with carbon fibre legs which makes life a lot easier when carrying gear across the golf course for extended periods of time. We mostly paired the Sony FX6 with the Sony 70-200mm for capturing images in this instance, but also had available on hand the Sony 200-600 lens to get closer to the action if need be.
South Korea’s Yunseo Yang won the 2026 Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific (WAAP) Championship, finishing at 16-under 272 at the Royal Wellington Golf Club in New Zealand. She secured an eight-stroke victory, becoming the first Korean to win the prestigious title, and earned exemptions into three major championships.
Thank-you to Dan Frost, Emma Bellars and Mylo Wilkin for the opportunity to work on this project. Working as a videographer in the field of sport really is a privilege and one I don’t take for granted. It is a privilege to work alongside some of the best sports people in the world and film them doing what they love.
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