LAHORE: The February 2018 Royal Palm Monthly Medal Golf Tournament was held at the challenging par-72 Royal Palm Golf Course here Sunday. Amongst the 62 competitors who participated in this fiercely competitive event, there were important names like Omer Ehsan Dar, Asad Hameed, Ale Imran, Imran Mian, Saeed ul Haseen, Zia Maqbool and Irfan Raja. But the fight was so intense that none of them could make it to the honours board. Those who successfully neutralised the challenge of the course and emerged as winners were Abdul Islam in the gross section and Dr Nasrullah in the net section. These two emerged on top in the race for honours in handicap category 0-12. Abdul stayed on course to compile a gross score of 83 which proved to be the best one of the day and the tournament and enabled him to pick up the glittering champions trophy. Through a card of net 76, Nasrullah secured the first net position. The runner-up gross was Shoaib Bokhari and the runner-up net was Abdullah Sharif. The participants in the handicap category 13-18 had a tremendous outing in this competition and only the mentally strong ones managed to demonstrate their winning abilities. Ali Naeem was first in gross while Zafar Iqbal ended up as runner-up gross. The net first was won by Abdul Rauf. The second net prize went to Zahid Hussain. In the seniors’ category, the winner gross was Tariq Malik and the winner net was Ahmed Najeeb. Other allied prizes were won by Omer Ehsan Dar (nearest to the pin) and Dr Nadeem (longest drive). At the conclusion of the tournament, Abdullah Sharif, captain golf of the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club, awarded prizes to the winners. Published in Daily Times, February 20th 2018.