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JUMEIRAH GOLF ESTATES - TOURNAMENTS UPDATE
STEFFAN JONES TOURNAMENTS UPDATE
We’ve had an exciting few weeks running a number of members event since hosting back-to-back European Tour events, The Aviv Dubai Championship and The DP World Tour Championship.
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The OMA Emirates Medalford was played over The Fire Course on Friday 3rd December, with the course playing beautifully as would be expected after successfully hosting the AVIV Dubai Championship.
Winning the OMA Emirates Medal with a wonderful score of 4 under, net 68 was Alan Dobbins. It was close at the top of the Gents Division A as Brett Kraetzer took the victory on a card playoff shooting a great score of net 69. Runner-up, narrowly missing out on the top spot with again a score of net 69 was Bradley Stuart. Third place, also posting a score net 69 was Jorg Muller.
In the Gents Division B, Martin McGuigan took the victory with a net score of 69. In second place after a card playoff was Mohit Singh who scored a net 73, in third places again with a net 73 was Deepak Jain.
The winner in the Ladies Division with a great score net 71 was Evelyn Downham. Winning the Overall Gross prize was Drew Foxcroft who played some brilliant golf to post a three under par, gross 69. Taking second place in the Gross Division was Paul Darnault with a 73 gross. Winning the Stableford event after a card playoff was Steve Cashmore with 38 points, in runner-up with 38 points was Henry Sparling.
We hosted the Lincoln Dubai Golf ProAm Series Grand Final over the Earth Course on Saturday 11th December. The event was played by golfers who had qualified by finishing within the top 5 of each qualifier played over The Majlis and The Faldo courses at Emirates Golf Club, The Championship Course at Dubai Creek and both The Fire and The Earth Courses at Jumeirah Golf Estates. Accompanying each team was a UAE PGA Professional.
The competition format was the best 2 scores from 4 to count on each hole. It was a close contest with some excellent golf being played, and the scores highlighted that. Winning the event with a fantastic team score of 88 points was Mike Bolt, Eifaad Khan, Shiba Wahid and Tauseef Khan. Runners-up after a card playoff with 87 points was James Jackson, Bradley Stuart, Cam Larnder and Dallen Olson. In third place with 87 points was Purna Sharma, PT Jain, Chris Stillwell and Julian Stanley, and in fourth place with 86 points was Alastair Brown, Ross Barlow, Sanjay Dhandsa and George Clarke.
Winning the Professionals event with a superb gross 68, 4 under par was Cian Hurley. One shot adrift was Sujjan Singh who scored a gross 69. Third place was claimed by Louis Gaughan with a gross 70 and tied fourth with a gross 71 was Dong Lee and Zi Hao.
The third event of December was the ever-successful Jumeirah Pairs by The Lounge Spa that was played over The Earth Course on Saturday 18th December.
The event was played in the most perfect golfing weather, which certainly helped the scoring, that gain was exceptional albeit very tight at the top, with three pairs posting the winning score of 44 points in a pairs betterball format.
Winning the event after a countback were the pair of Cathy Williams and James Bellis. In second place were Erik Peter Meijer and Richard Teale, with David Bainbridge and Tom Purdy in third place. In fourth place, one point behind on 43 points were Alan McNamara and Mark Schoombie.
Our final event of 2021 was the Jumeirah Golf Estates Christmas Scramble sponsored by Solutions Leisure Group. The event was played with an obvious Christmas spirit with some competitors going above and beyond in their Christmas themes fancy dress.
Winning the event with an unbelievable team score of 24 under, 48 net was Rob Hoffman, Dave Grannell, Brandon Grieve and Matthew Ellis. Runners-up with a great score of 52 net was Ursula Lotti, Marcello Grasselli, Gregorio Grasselli and Jay Chinchankar. Coming in third place on a card playoff with a 54 net was Mark Smith, Mark Dalton, Allan McLeod, and Harry Lopez, and in fourth place again with a 54 net was Philippa Stumbles, Richard Stumbles, Mark Castell and Chris Hoare.
There were four special prizes to be won on the day, winning nearest the pin on hole 6 with an amazing shot, inches away from being a hole in one was Jehanzeb Awan. Nearest the pin on hole 17 with a great shot was won by Allan McLeod.
On the course there was a beat the pro challenge on hole 4 which was won by Mark Castell and on hole 13 there was another beat the pro challenge which was won by Jehanzeb Awan.
Continuing our wonderfully extensive members tournament calendar January and February will remain busy.
Saturday 15th January JGE Scramble by Kofax
Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd January JGE Men’s Amateur Open
Saturday 5th February OMA Emirates Medalford
Saturday 12th February Fourball Betterball Sponsored by Elite Cars
Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th February UAE PGA Pro-Am
Our Scratch League Team have been very busy over the past few weeks playing several matches already. After a difficult start with two away losses to Trump International Dubai and Sharjah Golf and Shooting Club, fortunes changed and an away win at Saadiyat Beach Golf Club and an extremely impressive 3 – 1 home win against Trump International Dubai.
Our Ladies Team will start the Inter-Club Challenge (ICC) on Wednesday 19th January, when they will play their home fixture with both Saadiyat Beach Golf Club and The Emirates Golf Federation being the other two sides in our league. The Jumeirah Golf Estates ladies are looking to reach the final for the fourth consecutive seasons.
The next fixture for our Scratch League team will be on Saturday 15th January when they take on Sharjah Golf and Shooting Club over The Earth Course. The final group stage match will take place on Saturday 26th February when we will be taking on Saadyiat Beach Golf Club over The Earth course. Two wins will see us qualify to the knock-out stage. Best of luck to both the Scratch League and Ladies ICC team in your upcoming fixture of which we’re sure you will do the club proud.
INTRODUCING... GARETH ROBERTS
TOURNAMENT EXECUTIVE
With this being my very first time in Dubai, I would like to thank all the members and colleagues for the warm welcome. I began my work in Jumeriah the week of the AVIV Dubai Championship. I could not imagine experiencing working at two European Tour events in my first two weeks here. It was a fantastic experience, once I hope to get another chance of.
I grew up in North Wales with my dad and older brother playing golf at a high standard and I was introduced to golf at a very young age. I had a successful amateur career winning the Welsh Boys Strokeplay title in 2010 and represented Wales Boys at Under 16s and at the Home Internationals in 2012. I realised I wanted to focus my career on golf, so I began the PGA Training Degree in 2018 while under the supervision of the Head Professional at North Whales Golf Club while studying out of the University of Birmingham. I have competed in PGA events around the UK, while assisting and helping other golfers achieve their golfing goals. In 2015 I graduated from Bangor University receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Retail Management and in 2022 I will be graduating from the University of Birmingham as a PGA professional. Prior to commencing my work at Jumeriah, I have furthered my education by retaining a level one certification out of the Titleist Performance Institute, level one certified instructor with Swing Catalyst and finally been certified in the Ping Fitting Training Program.
My role at Jumeirah Golf Estates is the Tournament Executive and I look forward to assisting the Golf Operations team to the best of my ability with my current knowledge and experience along with developing and learning new skills day by day. I look forward to meeting and getting to know each and every member.
