Sears Seals the Peoria Shield at Al Badia Golf Club

The Peoria Shield kicked off at Al Badia with this fun and somewhat lucky format returning to the tournament calendar for a second year.

The Peoria System works with the tournament organisers selecting six secret holes at random where the participant’s stableford score will count. The remaining 12 holes are used to determine your handicap for the day.  After play had finished, tournament organisers revealed that holes three, six, nine, twelve, sixteen and seventeen were the secret holes.

It was Graeme Sears who came out on top to win the tournament with 18 points as he benefited on the secret holes with two pars and managed to lock in a higher than normal handicap on the remaining holes.  Les Reis took second place on count back with 16 points with George Fitchet narrowly behind in third place.
The on course events went to Colin Gow for his longest drive on hole 12 and John Allen for nearest the pin on hole 7.  In the Ladies Division, Hee Sun Kim was the winner for nearest the pin on hole 11 and Kirsty Evans collected the prize for longest drive on hole 12.