LAHORE – The 58th national amateur golf championship came to a cessation after four rounds of relentless and intense golfing between the competing champions who were striving for a cling at the national golf title at the demanding garrison golf course here on sunday.
The victorious and vanquished one turned out to be taimoor khan of paf who achieved ascendancy and triumph, by first excelling over the final eighteen holes, leveling scores with his rival abdulzahoor of multan and then beating him in a sudden death play off that lasted two holes.
It was a fortunate day for taimoor khan who carded the final days eighteen holes with a round of gross 69, through a five holes birdie blitz that brought him at par with zahoor and entitled him to fight it out with his ferocious adversary, abdul zahoor. That
Zahoor lost it in the sudden death play off was due to taimoor’s stunning hitting.
In the final gotaimoor had scores of 76,72,73 and 69 and a four rounds aggregate of 290. As for zahoor, he put up a great display of golf but had to concede victory to taimoor khan who is now the national golf champion for 2019.
Zulfiqar ali (multan) came third with a score of 291, wazir ali (gymkhana) was fourth. His score was 292 and zohaibasif (dhakarachi) came fifth ending the championship at a score of 292.
Net section winner was raja israr (garden city), while second net went to mohsenzafar (gymkhana) and robin bagh (gymkhana) secured third net.
The ladies section title winner was rimshaijaz (defenceraya) through flawless golf. Her scores for the three days are 76,76 and 73.Secondgrosss went to hamnaamjad(paf). She managed aggregate score of 235. Ghazala yasmin (garrison) came third with score of 240.
Winner net in ladies section was mrsaishamoazzam (gymkhana) followed by daniyaeyaz (garrison) second net and ana james gill (royal palm) third net.
Other results: senior amateurs; rustamalichatta (garrison) first gross; lt col (r) asifmehdi (garrison) second gross; lt col (r) waqarahmed khan (defence raya) third gross; rashidakbar (garrison) first net; lt col (r) ikram ul haq (garrison) second net; majshoaib (rawalpindi) third net.
At the conclusion of the 58th national amateur golf championship, the prizes were awarded to the players by lt gen (r) hilal hussain, president, pakistan golf federation, lt gen (r) khalidmaqbool, former governor punjab and dr asmaafzalshami, head of ladies golf in a prize distribution ceremony attended by asad I.A.Khan, vice president, pgf, brig shoaib bin akram, president garrison golf club,
Dr ali of pgf and participating golfers. President pgf announced that two new golf courses are coming up in balochistan, one in lahore and pgf is striving for excellence in the golfing arenas.
