hkga pairs
Rungnapa and Richard Connect for Pairs Win
Winchester and Phoebus take Gross honours; Cuvelier and Reid shine in the Nett divsion
Perfect partnership (clockwise from above: the winning duo receive their rewards; Patrick Leung celebrates holing a curling putt; Eric Lee extracts himself from sand; points mean prizes; Roy Lee, in harness with Domine Ko, would finish the Nett Division in third place.
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Gross Division – Leading Scores 1 R Winchester & R Phoebus 38 points 2 N Keating & C Roussow 37 3 J Won & SG Kim 37 4 J-P Cuvelier & D Reid 37 5 CL Chiu & KH Tang 36 6= S Ho & CS Leung 35 A Adler & A Lau 35 8 J Lo & M Stott 34 9= CM Chan & WH Lung 31 LO Jim & CP Sit 31
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n team golf, it pays to be connected with your partner. Appropriate then that the ever popular HKGA Pairs tournament, held every December at Discovery Bay Golf Club, had a new sponsor for 2008: ConnectedGroup, the executive search firm. Not that Rungnapa Winchester and Richard Phoebus, winners of the Gross Division, required any recruitment assistance for their team. Playing in one of the last flights of the day, the duo blended their games perfectly to come in with a better ball score of 38 stableford points over the Diamond/Ruby Course, which was good enough for a one point victory. Neil Keating and Carel Roussow, with 37 points, finished in second place, edging out last year’s winners Jay Won and Kim Suk Gul on countback. In the Nett Division, Jean Paul Cuvelier and Dallas Reid recorded an impressive 47 point haul to outlast brothers Albert and Patrick Leung by the narrowest of margins. Domine Ko and Roy Lee placed third, a further point adrift. “Because of the format and the fine weather at the end of the year, the ConnectedGroup Pairs Tournament is always one of the most oversubscribed HKGA events of the year,” explained HKGA Chief Executive Iain Valentine. “Congratulations to all the winners and our thanks to ConnectedGroup. Their support of golf in Hong Kong is greatly valued.” www.hkga.com
Nett Division – Leading Scores 1 J-P Cuvelier & D Reid 47 2 A Leung & P Leung 46 3 D Ko & R Lee 45 4 R Winchester & R Phoebus 44 5= S Ho & CS Leung 43 T Greene & T Yuen 43 J Ho & E Yung 43 YK Chan & V Law 43 M Leung & R Yim 43 B Haskett & R Smits 43
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