Tag: Golf

LAHORE - Asad Amin has won the 18-hole Meezan Bank Golf Tournament at the challenging par 72 Royal Palm Golf and Country Club golf course, where a number of golfers participated Saturday.
Asad Amin had a very decent score in the opening nine holes. He aggregated a par score of 36, and managed his way to the top with a gross score of 82.
The event featured awards in the invitational category, net and gross in the handicap category 13-18 and net and gross in handicap category

LAHORE - A hundred and six golf playing amateurs will tee off at the challenging 18-hole, par 72 Royal Palm golf course in the Meezan Bank Golf Trophy on Saturday, February 26. The participating competitors include over 20 single handicappers, most of them capable of hitting the ball with fearsome rhythmic power.
Some of the competitors who fall in this group are Sardar Murad, Amir Mehmood, Faisal Malik, Shoaib Shams, Tariq Misbah, Mahd Zafar, Hussain Hamid and Asad I.A. Khan.

LAHORE - Shoaib Bokhari played quality golf for an outward half of 36 and inward half of 37 to win the 5th Infotech Golf Tournament contested at the par 72 Royal Palm Golf Course on Sunday.
Bokhari outpointed 91 ardent golf competitors and what made Shoaib more creditable was the fact that his nearest rivals Mohsen Zafar and Faisal Ali Malik were equally forceful and fierce competitors and appeared as hot contenders right till the very end, but then failed to place their 12

LAHORE - The fifth Infotech Invitational Golf Tournament has attracted skilled golf amateurs from all the golf clubs of Lahore and Karachi and the 18 holes stroke play competition today(Saturday), at the par 72 Royal Palm Golf Course will be an event of significance.
The tournament is likely to produce fireworks worthy of praise and out of a field of 90 participants, at least 30 are regular winners and can be considered front runners with at least 40 more, out to challenge them

LAHORE - Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Zakaullah clinched the coveted trophy of the CAS Veterans Golf Championship in an 18-hole contest. The Championship was held at Lahore Garrison Golf and Country Club.
Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force, was the chief guest at the prize distribution ceremony of the championship and awarded trophies and prizes to the winners. In the seniors category, Air Vice Marshal Sohail Gul Khan, Air Marshal Athar

SAN DIEGO - Life has been a dizzying whirlwind for Venezuela's Jhonattan Vegas since his astonishing breakthrough on the US PGA Tour but his overriding goal remains in sharp focus. The 26-year-old became the first rookie to win the Bob Hope Classic in more than a half-century with a playoff victory on Sunday, an achievement that sparked jubilant celebration in his soccer-mad homeland.
Although Venezuela President Hugo Chavez has frequently disparaged golf as an elitist sport

LAHORE - After two rounds of accurate shot making and some good work around, Shahid Abbas emerged as the triumphant golfer in the 36 holes stroke play contest at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club. And this he did by keeping experienced opponents like Amir Mehmood, Sardar Murad, Mohsin Zafar and Shoaib Bokhari away from the prestigious Royal Palm Champion Golf Title. For him it turned out to be an individual feat of prowess which is bound to encourage him to spend regular hours at

LAHORE - Shahid Abbas, a ten handicapper, played exceptionally good golf at the par 72 Royal Palm Golf Course and propelled himself to the front, at the end of the first round of the Royal Palm Annual Golf Championship on Saturday. He left behind some very strong contenders like Amir Mehmood, Mohsin Zafar Sardar Murad, Shoaib Bokhari and even Azfar Hassan. This performance by Shahid Abbas deserves all the admiration as he applied his text book style skills.
During the course of

LAHORE - The two-day Annual Golf Championship commences today at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club. The par 72, 18 holes Royal Palm Golf Course is considered an awesome test of players' ability and skills.
The 92 eager participants who tee off will find their skills tested to the full before they can make any worthwhile effort to lay a claim on the title trophy. It is the single handicappers in the six and below range who are likely to emerge as frontrunners as the 36 holes

LAHORE - The first Sprite Golf Tournament concluded at the Lahore Gymkhana Golf Course on Sunday with the high achievers turning out to be Danyaal Jehangir securing the top amateur gross, Rashid Iqbal topping in amateur net, and Karamatullah Chaudry and AVM (R) Zakaullah making it to the first slot in seniors net and seniors net.
The overall performances carried a touch of class and although some ended up behind the ultimate winners, they produced rounds that deserve a lot of

LAHORE - The three-day 1st Sprite Golf Tournament commenced here at the Lahore Gymkhana Golf Course with events for ladies, veterans (above 70 years of age), seniors (above 55 years of age), amateurs, ball boys and caddies. Of special significance is the competitive event for ball boys and caddies who earn their living from serving the golfers.
Thanks to Sprite and Javed A Khan, they have now been afforded an opportunity to show their golfing skills. Out of 59 caddy competitors,

LAHORE - The Royal Palm Golf Tournament, contested over 18 holes on a chilly December Sunday at the Royal Palm Golf Course, saw golfers of talent and distinction appear in full strength in the stroke play competition.
Against tough resistance from his fellow competitors like Abbas Ali Khan, Nadeem Hassan Asif, Hussain Hamid, Shahid Abbas and Abdullah Sharif, the ultimate gross winner Mohsin Zafar proved to be a golfer of deeds, his excellent shot making dwarfing the prowess of

FAR HILLS - David Fay is retiring from the US Golf Association after two decades as executive director, a tenure marked by a drive to bring the US Open to public courses and bring golf back to the Olympics. Fay's announcement on Friday came two months after his 60th birthday.
A leading authority on the game's rules, Fay started his career in golf as a caddie and joined the USGA in 1978. He became the association's sixth executive director in 1989 and held the post under 12

LAHORE: Muhammad Leghari of Royal Palm surprised everyone at the Lahore Gymkhana's golf course by winning the 27th Millat Governor's Cup Golf Tournament here on Sunday.
The concluding moments of the final day of this three-day championship at the Lahore Gymkhana Golf Course produced exciting moments as till the last putt on the 18th hole, the winner of the title was not clear.
At the end of 54 holes, Muhammad Leghari of Royal Palm had an aggregate score of 213, net

LAHORE:Wleed Zubair of Lahore Gymkhana emerged as the front runner by upstaging the overnight leaders Wasim, Hamza and Omer Salamat at the end of the second round in the 27th Millat Governor's Cup Golf Championship at the Lahore Gymkhana Golf Course.
Waleed surprised the most accomplished zero handicap amateur, Wasim Rana of Karachi and many other aspirants like Omer, Ali Anwar and Danyaal Jehangir. owever, there is a final round of 18 tricky holes still to go and those lagging

LAHORE: The 27th Governor's Cup Golf Championship tees off today at the Lahore Gymkhana Golf Course providing an opportunity to some skillful amateurs of the country to excel over the next three days for the net trophy.
Addressing a press conference here at the Lahore Gymkhana Golf Lounge, Media Director Khawaja Parvaiz Saeed gave details of the December 10-14 activity which would be featuring over 130 amateur contenders while a large number of seniors, and veterans have also

LAHORE: After a battle of nerves and golfing skills, the twenty-member Gymkhana golf team prevailed over the Royal Palm golf team, yesterday at the Gymkhana Golf Course, through an aggregate team score of 27 points to Royal Palm's 25, the winning margin not too imposing yet ample to fetch them the glittering trophy accompanied by the related honours.
The clash between the two teams has started to generate tremendous interest on both sides and members consider it an