Davis shot probably his best-ever round at Dirab, a 1-over 73, to deny last year’s winner, taekwondo master M. S. Kim, a potential back-to-back victories in the tournament that started exclusively for Pakistanis but was made open to all since 2010.
Davis enjoyed a tidy round (37-36) that included consecutive birdies from No. 12 against two bogeys on the back nine. Davis bogeyed the eighth and parred the rest of the holes going out.
Kim settled for second place in First Division (handicap 0-9) behind winner Filipino Eric Liquigan, who had a net score of 73 to Kim’s 74. Saudi national team player Fahad Almansour, with a 3 handicap like Liquigan, took third place on 75 with 9-handicap Finlay Graham in fourth position on 78.
Japanese Nagaya, a 23-handicap golfer, had a good game to go with high handicap as he won low net honors on 65 from a gross score of 88.
Nagaya put together nines of 42-46, mixing six pars, eight bogeys and four double bogeys.
The Pakistani pair of Shakeel Syed and Syed Shafiq won the Second Division (10-18) and Third Division (19-28) after shooting 71 and 70 in benign conditions.
Il Joong Kim and Chris Ledwidge clinched second and third in Second Division via the countback after they both posted 74 at the end of the 18-hole full handicap stroke play competition. Craig Gordon came in fourth with a 75.
Jo Smyth, Moiz Ahmed and Rana Mehmoud all fired 72s to rounded out the winners in Third Division.
Winning the Ladies Division crown was Mi Ra Jung on 68, with Mi Jung Yoo, Fauzia Shamim and Denise Holding second, third and fourth on 73, 73 and 82.
The men’s and ladies longest drive award went to Graham Walker and Shamim, while Graham Amos was the winner of the closest to pin plum.
Electronic and home appliance items were raffled off and the winners were: Irshad Akhtar, Takuya Ioka, Zafar Ullah Khan, Syed Shafiq, Kazuko Nagaya, Paul McLormach, Kapila N., Yoshio Kanamoto, Rodney K. Simoneetti, Paul Dart, Khursheed Ahmed, Davis and Javed Shamim.
Ambassador Muhammed Naeem Khan of the Pakistan Embassy attended the event and handed over prizes to the winners with Dirab Golf Committee Chairan Nasser Uddin Siddiqui.
The sponsors of the tournament are Al Yahya Trading, SPACCO, Saudi Zaas Construction Co., M. N. Bin Rajeh & Partner Contracting Co., Riyadh Cement Company and individual contributors Nasser F. Akeel and Siddiqui and Dirab Golf & Country Club.
After the awards ceremony DGCC Golf Manager Bouchaib El Jadiani announced the ABGR-Amex golf tournament will be held Wednesday and Thursday.
