21 April 2005	Thursday	11 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1426

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PESHAWAR, April 20: The 15th edition of Bank AlFalah Frontier Open Golf Championship, carrying a grand sum of Rs 350,000 for professionals, over 54 holes will commence from April 22 here at PAF Golf Club. Talking to the media , former skipper of Pakistan golf team and Secretary General of Frontier Golf Association (FGA) Mehmood Aziz said that all arrangements were made and the arrival of the players would start on April 21.

He hoped that the Championship, having attractive prizes for the professionals and amateurs golfers, would be organized. The Championship, he said, was the first to carry such amount for the golfers in NWFP.

He said, the Championship of professionals, amateurs players of handicap of (0-12 HCP), veteran professionals, amateurs with handicap (13-18 HCP), senior amateurs, boys Under-14 and Under-17 and ladies events.

Total prize money of the event, he said, is 350,000 for the professional players and veteran professionals. This event will be the richest Open Golf Championship of NWFP even for that reasons all the top golfers of the country confirmed their participation, he added.

Besides this the association, he said, has planned 36-holes tournament each at seven different centers like, Swat, Abbottabad, Kohat, Nowshera, Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu and Peshawar.

He said, NWFP has great potential of the game and the professional, amateur boys and ladies showed tremendous skills in various national and international events.

The Championship will be followed by events like, President Golf Medal Golf Cup to be played from May 6 in Islamabad, President Pakistan Trophy at Rawalpindi from May 12-15 and Punjab Open at Lahore Gymkhana from May 29-31. —APP