Eid shows how it’s done!

Having been playing at Awali for more than 40 years, Nasser Eid continued to show how to do it, and, in suitable style, returned home with a big smile and a glorious 45 Stableford points to win the Korean Cup competition, leaving all others trailing in the distance.

Club Captain Abdul Elah Fakhroo was back on form and secured runners-up position with a creditable 40 points in glorious golfing conditions at Awali Golf Club on Friday.
 
The competition, in its second year, had a Korean flavour to it with some interesting fayre not previously witnessed at the club, courtesy of The Korean Restaurant.

A vast array of prizes, also with a Korean theme, were presented by the competition’s sponsor and club member Kwang Bok Kim, assisted by tournament director Paul Beaumont. 

Results: 1st Nasser Eid (45), 2nd Abdul Elah Fakhroo (40), 3rd Reynaldo Alejandro (39), 4th Kerry Diaper (39), 5th Yeon Gul Kim (38), losing on countback Nasser Al Kaabi and Abdulla Sultan Faraj.

A couple of other interesting prize-related items arose during the post-golf presentation.

The ‘Ones & Twos Club’, where a player can receive a prize if he/she has managed to hole-out in either one or two strokes and where the player has met other entry conditions in advance, saw Abdulla Elah Fakhroo somewhat disappointed with the random draw not picking the par-4 379-yard hole 13 – the hole on which he achieved the rare feat of an eagle-2.

Also, as is normal for competitions at Awali, just to console those that do not have the competence to make it into the main prizes, something that these players are routinely heard to describe as ‘unlucky bounces’, raffle prizes are drawn randomly. For the Korean Cup, Kwang Bok Kim had sponsored a large number of raffle prizes which resulted in a raffle prize for every player in the clubhouse.
 
As the name from the last card was announced, the voice of a player who had not received a raffle prize boomed out quizzically: “Where’s my card?”

With a commensurate amount of sympathy from the tournament director and others present, Peter Rogers was advised: ‘To be included in the raffle, the card must be fully completed. Your card is absent as you did not include Time-Out/Time-In details’. Very sad, indeed.