Hashoo Group World Corporate
Golf Challenge Pakistan (WCGC Pakistan), Pakistan’s longest running
corporate golf tournament, teed off for the 5th time. 110 corporate golfers
participated in the first leg of the South Region (Karachi) Qualifier at the
Defence Golf & Country Club, Karachi on 30th March, 2019.
Prominent business leaders who were part of the south region (South region)
Qualifiers included Syed ather abbas
( Managing Director, TPL Insurance), Seja
Jerjees (CEO, ARY Digital Network), Syed
Zeeshan Ali (GM, National
Foods), Junaid Ahmed (CEO,
Dubai Islamic Bank), Azhar Abbas
(MD, Geo Tv Network), Arif Usmani
(CEO-President NBP Pakistan), Tahir
Zulfikar (VP Group Bankinf affairs, Hashoo Group), Syed Abdul Razaak (Head,Risk management, Bank Islami Pakistan
limited), Bilal Aqleem (Head of HR,
Dubai Islamic banking), Abid Zaidi
(Country GM, Microsoft Pakistan), Khalid
bin Lateef (CEO, Faysal Asset Management Limited), Sarfaraz Ali Khan (CEO, ABM Data systems), Irfan Merchant (Executive Director, SM Denim Mills), Babar Siddiqui (Head of Projects,
HUBCO), Muhammad Usman (CMO, Khaadi
SMC Pvt), Shahid Abdullah (Head of
Treasury, Soneri Bank limited), Haider
Ali Jafri (Senior Vice President, Faysal Bank),
First leg of Hashoo Group
World Corporate Golf Challenge Pakistan 2019 was held in Defence Authority
Country & Golf Club Karachi. Interloop International comprising of Mr.
Nadeem Iftikhar and Mr. Faisal Khurshid secured the 1st position in
the regional qualifier.
Top-5 teams confirmed their slots for the National Final of Hashoo Group World Corproate Golf Challenge Pakistan 2019, which is scheduled to be held on 5th May 2019 at Lahore. Regional qualifiers of North and Center will take place on 21st April 2109 at Islamabad and 4th May 2019 at Lahore.
Grand National Final of Hashoo Group World Corporate Golf Challenge Pakistan will have 15 teams from each region. Winning team of National Final will proceed to represent Pakistan at World Final of World Corporate Golf Challenge Pakistan in July this year.
Involving more than 8,000
executives, WCGC is the biggest corporate golf event worldwide. World Corporate
Golf Challenge Pakistan is the biggest corporate golf team event of Pakistan.
More than 40 countries are associated with World Corporate Golf Challenge
(based in Spain). This is the 5th edition of WCGC in
Pakistan and it is growing rapidly in Pakistan and first event of its kind.
Mr. Haseeb Gardezi – Chief
Operating Officer of Hashoo Group (Hospitality Division) was the chief guest
and added “Congratulations to all the 5 teams of South region and we will
welcome them at the Grand National Finale and hopefully this time Pakistan will
win at the World Finals at Portugal“.
Results:
5th Position: ARY DIGITAL “Seja Jerjees & Omair Javaid”
4rth Position: Indigo Textile “Farooq Javed & Adil Rashid”
3rd Position: C.A.S Security “Muhammad Qasim & Hamza Ghani”
2nd Position: Al Shayma Pvt ltd. “Ali Raza & Aaniya Syed
1st Position: Interloop International “Nadeem Ifthikar & Faisal Khurshid