Murad, Salman and Momina win titles in 35th Punjab Governor Amateur Golf Cup
A total of 272 golfers participated in this three-day golf championship which was being held at Gymkhana Golf Club in Lahore.
Murad, Salman and Momina beat their opponents and stands at the top spot in their respective categories on the final day of 35th Punjab Governor Amateur Golf Cup which featured contests in 5 different categories.
Following are the categories:
1. Men’s Amateurs
2. Seniors’ competition
3. Ladies' contest
4. Veterans' competition and
5. Juniors' competition
The championship concluded successfully with one stroke effort from Sardar Murad hailing from Lahore Gymkhana who beat the championship’s all time best performer, Suleman Akhter in the final round.
Murad was able to accomplish his win against three other competitors; Danish Javed , Ahmed Baig and Suleman with a three days aggregate score of 211 against the net score of 212 by Suleman Akhter and Danish Javed finishing at the third spot.
Whereas the gross section, the gross winner turned out to be Salman Jehangir of Gymkhana with three rounds scores of 77, 75 and 70 and aggregate gross score of 222. The runner-up gross was Ahmed Baig and his gross aggregate was 223 while the third gross position went to Syed Raza Ali Rizvi with a score of 227.
A large number oflady golfers tourn towards this championship to participate but due to the impressive number of participants the organizers had to impose a cut after the first 18 holes and 9 ladies were weeded out and only 19 played the final round in which Momina Tarar booked the first place by powering over other competitors winning the first net with net scores 65 and 77 giving her a winning aggregate of 142. Whereas Rubina Nasir stood second net with a totld of 146 score and the third net went to Shabana Waheed by an aggregate of 150.
Following are the results of different categories of the championship:
Boys best Net Score:
Abdullah Farooqi – 1st Net
Muhammad Arhass – 2nd Net
Ladies best Gross Score:
Anna James Gill - 3rd gross
Zeb Un Nisa - 2nd Gross
Parkha Ijaz – 1st Gross
Veterans:
Saulat Said - 3rd Gross
Brig Iftikhar Ahmed - 2nd Gross
Col Shahid Mehboob - 1st Gross
Javed Hameed - 3rd Net
Iqbal Saigol - 2nd Net
Ejaz Malik - 1st Net
Seniors:
Omer Farooq - 3rd Gross
Col Waqar Ahmed - 2nd Gross
Col Rustam Piracha - 1st Gross
Major General Muhammed Tahir - 3rd Net
Dr. Javed Iqbal - 2nd Net
Col Muhammed Younis - 1st Net
Juniors:
M Bilal Ahmed - 2nd Gross
Yasin Intikhab - 1st Gross
A prize money of 100,000 PKR was awarded to Omer Zia who did a hole in one as announced by Ahsan Imran, CEO Millat Equipment. Millat Tractors sponsored this edition of the championship as well.
At the closing cermony, President Pakistan Golf Federation, Lt. Gen Hilal Hussain and Chairman Millat Group, Sikandar Mustafa Khan along with Shaukat Javed, Convener Golf, Lahore Gymkhana awarded prizes and certificates to the winners and participants of the championship.
