Team Blue thrashes Whites in the Friend of Golf event
In the Friends of Golf Competition, 20 member blue team defeated 20 member whites in the 18 holes competition at Royal Palm Golf Course Lahore.
Zafar Iqbal was leading the blues while team White was captained by Hammad Baig. The 18 holes match was played on match play format, a kind of its own where upcoming golfers are afforded an opportunity to match wits and playing skills with established golf players and even though losing to them is not too disheartening.
Blues 20 member team combined cohesively and the Captain managed to bring the best out of the players and in the end, through a high quality effort the Blues Team accumulated 22 points as against 18 points compiled by Whites.
The pairs from Blue, Shoaib Shams and Zafar Iqbal, Asim Basra and Hanan Gulzar, Saeed ul Haseeb and Ch Khalid, Abbas Chaudry and Hassan Hamid, Abdul Islam and Ahmed Baksh ended up with success over their highly charged opponents and in the process every wining pair attained 2 points. In the Individual competition the ones who brought fruits in the shape victory points were Shoaib Shams, Zafar Iqbal, Tariq Ahmed, Imran, Ch Khalid, Imran F. Mian Abbas Chaudry, Hassan Hamid, Ahmed Baksh and Irfan Raja. Half point contributors were Asim Basra and Abdul Islam.
Though the whites were at the receiving end but there were some good moments for them too as the pairs of Nauman Razzaq and Ahmed Asad, Ale Imran and Imran Amjad, Nadeem Malik and Zahid Hussain, Omer Dar and Abid Farooq had a decisive edge over their opposing pairs and showed their superior capabilities. In the overall reckoning however, the Blues Team performed better.
Prize for nearest to the pin went to Hassan Hamid and the longest drive was hit by the athletic Abdul Islam Nazir. At the conclusion of the eventful Friends of Golf competition, Abdullah Sharif gave away the prizes to the winners at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club.
