Taiwan Tournament Had Surprising Amount of Four Digit PDGA Numbers

Kaohiung, Taiwan hosted the 2015 Asian Open January 17th and 18th. A Tier-B PDGA tournament, the Asian Open had seventy players with twenty-eight having player numbers below 10000. A surprising distribution. I'd like to know how all those players got registered in order, and what has kept them playing together over time. At present, its another reminder that this sport is a global initiative.

Competition in the Open and Women's division was tight, with only one throw separating the winners from second place. Manabu Kajiyama (8139) from Fukuoka, Japan unofficially threw 1025 disc golf over three rounds and two shortened cut-down rounds to win the event over Whittier, California's Bobby Musick (15911). Kajiyama ended up -18 for the tournament. Yaki Fukuhara (8200) from Komaki, Japan bested Taiwan's own and spry newcomer Chia-fan Chen (43610) by one shot to win the Women's.

In a rather large field of Grandmasters, including Jeff Kennedy (1447) from Las Vegas, Nevada; Kazuo Shirai (6075) from Tokyo out shot Tochigi, Japan's Atsuhito Kawasaki (6671) by three strokes, finishing -6.

Here are some of the player numbers below 10000 from the 2015 Asian Open:

Name	PDGA#	Name	PDGA#
Jeff Kennedy	1447	Mac Hsiao	8710
Hiroshi Yokota	3614	Jen Tong Chen	8712
Kazuo Shirai	6075	Gou Gi Lu	8713
Mark Molnar	6409	Shyi Jou Tseng	8714
Atsuhito Kawasaki	6671	Hung Jun Lin	8715
Yasuo Sakurai	8105	Shin Zou Chen	8716
Eiji Kaneko	8130	Bee Fa Chen	8717
Manabu Kajiyama	8139	Chi Chin Wang	8718
Kazuhiko Gomibuchi	8190	Song Hwa Huang	8719
Yuki Fukuhara	8200	Richard Tang	8720
Stanny Lee	8702	Kang Hsung Chen	8721
Vincent Chang	8703	Michael Hu	8723
Song Lin Teng	8704	Chia Kou Fan	8732
Robert Lu	8709	Randy Yu	8738

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