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Peacock wins Dubai Creek Pro-Am as McLaughlan extends UAE PGA Tour OOM lead

Kent Gray — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 03:57:37 +0000

By Kent Gray
Shane Peacock’s day job is to deliver quality tournaments for the members at Al Ain Equestrian, Shooting & Golf Club. Recently, the club’s tournament co-ordinator showed he can play as good a game as he delivers.

Peacock won the individual event at the Dubai Creek UAE PGA Pro-Am with an even par score of 71. The AESGC Tournament Co-ordinator had been humming along at two under only to drop a couple of late shots as the blustery wind and slippery greens that troubled finally caught up with him.

But it was still enough to win the UAE PGA Tour title by a shot from early order of merit leader Fraser McLaughlan (AESGC), Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club head professional Michael Major and Jordan Gallagher (Pro Sports) who shared second place with 72s. Cian Hurley, Robbie McCarthy, Ross McArthur and Purna Sharma where joint fifth on 73.

In the Pro-Am section of the field David Gary led Hisham Shammas, Gregory Mathieu and Pascal Bartette to victory with a 16 under par total.

The champion team at the 2018 Dubai Creek UAE PGA Pro-Am.

The Track, Meydan Golf hosts the fourth round of the UAE PGA Tour season on October 28.

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What a Way to finish the Dubai Creek UAE PGA Pro-Am

Kent Gray — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:03:01 +0000

Cennydd Mills and Joe Way (right) flank new UAE PGA chief executive Luke Plumb at the Dubai Creek UAE PGA Pro-Am prize-giving.

By Kent Gray
Joe Way has holed a slippery downhill chip for birdie on his final hole to earn a share of the professional spoils at the Dubai Creek UAE PGA Pro-Am.

The 24-year-old Londoner found the cup with his 68th and final shot of the day from beyond the green on the tough par 4 second hole (he had started on the third in the shot-gun format) to tie fellow Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club teaching pro and serial UAE PGA Tour winner Cennydd Mills.

Way, who has graduated to the academy teaching team after joining the Creek 18 months ago in a operations role, started Monday’s tournament birdie-birdie and added further gains on the 13th and 2nd to buff over his only dropped shot on the par 5 3rd.

Mills, the reigning UAE PGA order-of-merit champion, went one better than his runner-up finish at the Al Hamra European Challenge Tour qualifier last week with a three-under card that also included four birdies and a solitary dropped shot at the par 3 8th.

Meanwhile, Emirates Golf Club professional Dong Lee led his team of Hyo Choong Kim, Kyung Soon Kang and Jung Rye Kim to the Pro-Am title with a -15 total of 127. The best two of four scores counted on each hole and the Emirates GC team’s total included a sizzling 13 under run on the back nine.

The winning team with UAE PGA CEO Luke Plumb (left).

Stefan Wears-Taylor (Al Zorah GC) teamed with Geoff Oswald, Adrian Valvona and John Fahy on to claim second place in the teams event with a -14 aggregate of 128 while Abu Dhabi GC pro Callum Nicoll guided Stathis Stathis and Gurbax and Sandeep Singh to third, a shot further back.

The UAE PGA Tour’s next stop is the Al Ain PGA Open on Oct. 30.

Gurbax Singh lets one rip on the 1st tee at Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club.

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First Golf Digest Middle East 100k giveaway winners announced

Golf Digest Middle East — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:40:04 +0000

The winning has begun in the Golf Digest Middle East 100k giveaway to celebrate our 100th issue.

Harini White is off to the Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open Pro-Am on October 31 ahead of the second edition of the Ladies European Tour event at Saadiyat Beach G.C. from Nov. 1-4. Before then Guy Williams and Casper Schonfeldt will tee it up in the Golf Digest Middle East team at the Dubai Creek UAE PGA Pro-Am next Monday, Oct. 16.

The winners were drawn at random from all correct entries received in the first week of our 100th issue giveaway. Incredibly, Williams and Schonfeldt both won divisions at the most recent Golf Digest Middle East Amateur Series event at Al Hamra G.C. – and clearly took our plea to enter our 2017 Reader Survey at the time seriously.

There’s still oodles of great prizes to be won – including Pro-Am spots and hospitality passes to the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and Omega Dubai Desert and Dubai Ladies Classics, fourball vouchers to leading UAE courses and a 10k AED Callaway voucher – so be sure to enter today. We’ll be announcing winners every Thursday.

Click here to take the 2017 Golf Digest Middle East Reader Survey here and win BIG!

Entries close December 31, 2017 but enter today to increase your chances of winning.

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Montgomerie pro David Laing earns Al Hamra return for dream European Challenge Tour start

Kent Gray — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 05:49:56 +0000

Al Hamra Director of Golf, Andrew Pilford, left, with Laing after yesterday’s UAE PGA Tour OOM event.

By Kent Gray
Dubai-based Scottish teaching professional David Laing captured his maiden UAE PGA Tour title on Tuesday and couldn’t have timed the feat any better.

With a three-under 69 at Al Hamra G.C., the Address Montgomerie Dubai academy instructor scored himself a start in the European Challenge Tour’s penultimate event of 2017, the Ras Al Khaimah 2017 Golf Challenge from Oct. 25-28.

Laing won the dual UAE PGA Order-of-Merit (OOM) event-RAK Golf Challenge qualifier by two strokes from Jumeirah Golf Estates’ (JGE) Gavin Sutherland, Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club’s Cennydd Mills and Mikeal Gartner (CV Sports Group) who shared second place with 71s.

Mills earned the RAK Golf Challenge spot last year and went on to finish 100th in the 105-strong field with rounds of 77-74. Englishman Jordan Smith was eventually crowned RAK champion to seal the Challenge Tour OOM title and has gone on to win his maiden European Tour title, the Porche European Open in July, to be a lock for next month’s Race to Dubai decider, the DP World Tour Championship at JGE.

Laing, who hails from Craigielaw Golf Club, one of a collection of gems on Scotland’s “Golf Coast” of East Lothian, will be hoping to better Mills’ effort by making the cut at Al Hamra later this month.

Before then he has the UAE PGA Tour’s next event to look forward to, the Dubai Creek UAE PGA Pro-Am next Monday. Amateurs have until tomorrow to enter the tour’s answer to the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

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It’s Dubai’s answer to the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and you can play!

Kent Gray — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 07:47:33 +0000

By Kent Gray
The chance to tee it up in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship or the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is the dream of many amateurs. Sadly it remains just that for most weekend warriors, an unobtainable delusion of golfing grandeur. Happily, there is a UAE equivalent that is very accessible and just as much fun – if you are quick.

Amateurs have just four days left to enter the UAE PGA Pro-Am, again being hosted by Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club on Monday, October 16.

Click here to play the UAE PGA Pro-Am – Entries close Oct. 12

Admittedly, you won’t get the chance to tee it up with the likes of Rory McIlroy or Tyrrell Hatton who repeated as Dunhill Links champion at the home of golf on Sunday.

But UAE PGA chief Steven Munro promises amateurs a fun afternoon at The Creek – and maybe a tip or two to help your game from the region’s leading teaching professionals.

The UAE Pro-Am is a 4-person team strokeplay event where the best two scores count on each hole. Amateurs compete with full course handicap allowance (Maximum course handicap 28).

“The Creek always put on an excellent event for the UAE PGA Pro-am and it is always popular with pros and amateurs alike,” said Munro.

”As professionals we really enjoy getting our friends and members together to make up Pro-Am teams and it is a break from the normal Order-of-Merit events played as individuals. This event is still an OOM event for us, but with the added fun of playing it in a pro-am format.”

Entries fees are:
Dubai Creek Member – AED 250
Emirates Golf Club Member – AED 350
EGF Member – AED 550
Individual non-member – AED 650

The fee includes buffet dinner after play, complimentary use of DCGYC’s swimming pool and gym facilities on the morning of the event. To register and for more information please contact Creek Golf Office on +971 4 295 6000 or cgolfoffice@dubaigolf.com

Meanwhile, the second event of the 2017-18 UAE PGA Tour season will be held at Al Hamra on Tuesday and doubles as a qualifier for the European Challenge Tour’s penultimate event, the Oct.25-28 Ras Al Khaimah 2017 Golf Challenge.

“The winner qualifies for the RAK challenge tour event, in which [reigning UAE PGA champion and DCGYC teaching pro} Cennydd Mills played last year. It’s a great opportunity for us to challenge the best up and coming golfers from Europe’s feeder tour,” said Munro.

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