Season Opens at Dubai Golf with Ace from Radia

The Mixed Season Opener produced some fantastic golf over the Majlis course with the highlight a hole in one on the 120-yard 11th hole from Amarjeet Radia. It was her first hole in one and she was delighted to ‘ring the bell’ in front of the 108-strong field.

At the The Majlis Golf Course the day started with the introduction of the incoming captains, Doug Dowie and Jenny Ayres. The traditional start to the official season teed off at 12:45 with Doug and Jenny’s ‘drive-in’. Jenny drove the ball straight down the middle 183 yards and Ivan Fornazaric was the recipient of a bottle of champagne for guessing correctly. Doug’s tee shot caught the left hand bunker at 234 yards with Bryan Wilson guessing correctly and collecting the bubbly.

The tournament was a shamble format with players playing their own ball following the preferred tee shot. With the best two scores to count some fantastic scores resulted with the quartet of Stathis Stathis, Nick Evangelopoulos, Pavan Nihalani and Iro Evangelopolous recording a winning tally of 117. This was good enough to give them a 3-stroke victory over Alan Salem, Sam Argui, Jatinder Chopra and Jenny Isles.
Third place finish went to Ninu Smith, Aaron Smith, Kavita Sehmi and Karam Sehmi following a 122 total.
Amarjeet’s hole in one on the 11th also earned her the nearest the pin prize, with Tony Hutchinson and Micky Brigg picking up prizes on holes 4 and 15 respectively.