Daily Times

LAHORE: A twelve-member professional Karachi golf team, captained by Asad IA Khan, will face a Lahore team, captained by Shahid Javed Khan, in a fierce contest for supremacy in the Rivalry Golf Cup Tournament at the Gymkhana Club Golf Course here Wednesday (today). Since this is a competition among the leading professional golf players of Karachi and Lahore, one expects golf of a high standard in a playing environment that can be graded as the best in the country. And with the weather of Lahore ideal for golf, the participating team members are going to be focused and concentrate on total excellence in their shot-making and some superb play around the greens.

The inaugural shot of the Rivalry Cup between champions from Karachi and the hosts in Lahore will be hit by SA Ali Sherazi of Netracon Technologies who are backing this championship. Karachi are going to be represented by Muhammad Ashfaq who will be paired with Moazzam Siddique in this best ball format tournament. Other pairings for Karachi are Muhammad Qasim and Ahmed Saeed, Waheed Baloch and Muhammad Khalid, Zulfiqar Ali and Rehmatullah, Muhammad Afzal and Muhammad Amir and lastly, Amjad Yousaf and Imran Ali Khan. The team pairings to represent Lahore are Shahid Javed Khan and Jafal Hussain, Matloob Ahmed and Sunny Masih, Aadil Jehangir and Shafiq Masih, Aashir Masih and Muhammad Asif, Latif Masih and Muhammad Safdar and Danyaal Jehangir and Talat Ijaz. The participating players are charged up as they are playing for their own home cities and each participant is determine to play to the best of his ability.