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Shabbir Iqbal triumph 5th J.A.Zaman Open Golf

The best professional golfer of Pakistan Shabbir Iqbal wins the 5th J.A Zaman Memorial Open Golf Championship at the Lahore Gymkhana Club Golf Course.

The top ranked player of Pakistan Shabbir Iqbal, occupied the top of the leader board by showing excellence in application of golfing skills and ended up triumphant with a cash purse of 1.7 million rupees. All three days of the tournament, Shabbir kept an intimidating presence on his opponents through scores that had previously been unmatched in precision and fineness. 

On the first day, Shabbir had a round of 67, an unparalleled 62 in the second round and a steady 72 on the final day of the championship with an aggregate score of 201, 15 under par. Shabbir had birdies on holes 1, 2, 6,7,8,10,11 and 16 an eagle on the par -4, 14th holes and regulation pars on the remaining nine holes. Matloob Ahmed of Garrison was runner-up with aggregate score of 208, eight under par. Sunny Masih of Gymkhana was third with score of 209, five under par. Others to attain various places are Shafiq Masih (Gymkhana) 210, Hamza Amin (Islamabad) 213, M Munir (Islamabad) 213, M Ashfaq (Karachi Airmen Golf Club) 214, Jafal Hussain (Gymkhana) 215, Waheed Baloch (Karachi) 216 and Shahid Javed Khan (Gymkhana) 216.

In the senior professional’s category, the winner was M Iqbal of Gymkhana while Asghar Ali of Gymkhana stood second and M Akram of Wapda was third. In amateur category, the gross winner was Ghazanfar Mehmood (Garden City Golf Club) while M Saqib (Garrison) was runner-up and M Rehman (Royal Palm) third. The winner in the seniors’ event was Javed Khan of Lahore Gymkhana. The ladies gross was won by Zahida Durrani of Garrison Golf Club and the ladies net was won by Ana James Gill of Lahore Gymkhana.

The Head of Zaman Family, Hamid Zaman and Mrs Hamid Zaman in the presence of Kamran Lashari, Shaukat Javed, Khawaja Imran Zubair, Mian Misbah-ur-Rehman, Amer Mehmood and participating golfers gave away prizes to the winners. Hamid Zaman also announced a package for the caddies to upgrade their education, health and livelihood.

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