KARACHI, Dec 2: Playing with a handicap of five, former international Murtaza Qasim shot a brilliant two over par 74 to recapture the oldest golf tournament of the Karachi Golf Club (KGC), the Pritchard Cup, here the other day.

Murtaza’s net score stood at 69 in the contest played over 18 holes at the lush green KGC course.

This is the third occasion in the 120-year old history of the event that Murtaza has laid his hand on the trophy the other two occasions being 1967 and 1984.The keenly contested club tournament which attracted over 180 golfers was played in amateur, seniors, veterans, ladies and juniors categories.

The newly elected vice-president of the KGC, Sanaullah Qureshi, awarded the glittering cup and other prizes to the winners.

Results:

Pritchard Cup

Winner Net: Murtaza Qasim 69; runner up Net Pritchard Cup: Group Capt Usman 70.

Amateur category

(Handicap 0 to 6) Winner Gross: Mohammad Ali Hai 74; runner up: Cdr Ansar Mahmood 75.

(Handicap 7 to 12) Winner Gross: Lt Cdr Irfan Rasheed 78; runner up Nayyer Hasnain 82.

(Handicap 13 to 18) Winner Gross: Lt Cdr Badar Shafaat 86, runner up Sajjad Raza 89.

Seniors:

Winner Gross: Brig Ghulam Nabi 83; runner up Murtaza Qasim 83.

Winner Net: Nayyer Hasnain 68, runner up Umer Ghafoor 71.

Veterans:

(Over 9 holes) Winner Gross: Tahir Karamat 41; runner up Brig Salam Akhtar 44.

Winner Net: Abdus Samad 31; runner up Javed H. Malik 35.

Ladies:

Winner Gross: Shahida Ismail 92, runner up Yutaka Arae 93.

Winner Net: Sung Kum Suk 72, runner up Durdana Soomro 75.

Juniors:

Winner Gross: Abdullah Adil 97; runner up Araib Akhtar 97.