Pirie on Fire in Chairman’s Cup at the Emirates Golf Club
Roy Pirie produced a perfect performance in the Chairman’s Cup to clinch a seven point victory following a superb 47 points.
Roy was delighted with his performance particularly as the Chairman’s Cup is a major in the tournament calendar and as a result his name will be etched on the clubhouse glass for years to come. Roy commented ‘if I was sitting in the audience and the winner had recorded 47 points I would have called them a bandit for playing off a questionable handicap, but I had one of those days where every putt found the bottom of the hole’. Roy commenced his round on the fourth and picked up birdies on the 5th, 9th and 16th holes, combined with six bogeys gave him a superb gross 75 over the famous Majlis course.
His closest challenger was in form Rabih Sfeila who returned an impressive 40 points often good enough to take the title. Gordon Wingate signed for one point less and his 39 points gave him third overall.
The divisional prizes had to be settled by a card count backs on the closing nine holes. Alan Main was victorious in Division A (handicap 0-12) over Johnny Aldridge following 37 points a piece. Sam Tarassoli and Ed Hesson went one better in Division B (handicap 13-24) with Sam’s 38 points including a better inward nine.
