LAHORE: It turned out to be a battle of golfing techniques in the Palmers Friendship Match Play Golf Championship between the 26 member Team Red, captained by Faisal Syed, and the 26-member Team Blue captained by Sharjeel Awan. This challenging team play encounter was played at the Royal Palm Club Golf Course here Wednesday. Both teams had some power hitting players at their command and the contest was expected to be a nail biting affair but in the ultimate reckoning the forceful ones of the Team Red had their say and through an applaudable and cohesive effort, they triumphed over Team Blue by a margin of 12 strokes. During the match play contest, visible was control and command over their drives and fairways shot making. And by consistently applying these golfing attributes the outstanding ones of Team Red compiled17 points in the team pairs competition and 13.5 points in the match play individual competitions. Their total aggregate score added up to a tally of 30.5 points giving the Team Red ascendancy over their adversaries of Team Blue. And as against this Team Blue managed to build up merely 7 points in the pairs matches and 11.5 points in the individual matches and their total of 18.5 points was not good enough and Team Red had the honor of picking up the winning trophy and the honors related thereto. Published in Daily Times, May 17th 2018.