Montgomerie Triumph over Emirates in Inaugural Quaich Match

The Montgomerie Dubai, captained by John Brash triumphed over Moshe Kohli’s Emirates team in the inaugural ‘Quaich’ interclub match.

The Ryder Cup style event witnessed twenty members from each club battle for the pride of ‘Emirates Hills’ over the iconic Majlis course.

The winning team in each of the 10 matches claimed a point for their respective side and for those matches finishing early; the remaining holes were played for an additional half point.

Kohli and Turlik secured 1.5 points in the lead off match against Brash and Pitman. Nick Hymas and Juan Pujana defeated Dick Purchase and Drummond Welsh 2 & 1. The third match also went to the visitors with Alex Kuk and Cedric Fevre beating Amr Salem and Lalu Mahtani 4 & 3. Gurinder Singh and Nishith Patel claimed a 1 hole victory for the hosts over Anthony Clarke and Myung Kyu Shi. The best performance of the day came from Alex Andarakis and Stephen Styen , claiming a 5 & 3 victory for team Montgomerie.
Peter Pavy & Sanjeev Gheewala and Anand Lakhiani & Vijay Devnani secured points for Emirates. The last three pairings for Montgomerie all clinched narrow matches including John McMenemy, John Aslett, Debbie Murray, Jo Higgins, Kerry Fitzpatrick and Jane Gray. The end result saw Montgomerie scoring 7.5 points to Emirates’ 6 to grant them the title.

The event lived up to its promise of ‘a challenge of sportsmanship and true spirit’, the return fixture will be staged at the Montgomerie Dubai later this year where Emirates Golf Club will look to wrestle back the trophy from their neighbors.