LAHORE: A golf course arena is a significant and enormous part of the game of golf and Pakistan is fortunate enough to have major historic golf courses such as the Karachi Golf Course, Lahore Gymkhana Golf Course, Railway Golf Club Golf Course, Peshawar Golf Course and. having inherited Rawalpindi Golf Course. As a result, many golf courses were added at the time of the development of the districts, and even more were created through the efforts of DHA and Bahria Town. The Rumanza Golf Course in Multan, designed by former world golf champion Nick Faldo, is now on the rise. Today there are a total of 48 golf courses in Pakistan.
The Pakistan Golf Federation coordinates golf activities in the country in close collaboration with provincial organizations such as the Sindh Golf Association, the Punjab Golf Association, the Khyber Pakhtunkhaw Golf Association and the Balochistan Golf Association. And every golf club is geared towards these associations and the PGF. An important part of the supervision is the technical support of the golf clubs in order to facilitate their smooth functioning. In this context, the PGF has provided technical articles such as flagpoles, flags, sand rakes, perforated cups, perforated cup rings, hole diggers and greens speedometers. All of these elements are essential to the golf course and add significant value to the golf course facilities.
Recently, the Covid-19 pandemic has proven to be a major obstacle to running world-class golf tournaments. Although the PGF had announced its golf calendar for the year 2021-22, Covid-19-related restrictions called for a review of the dates. After careful consideration and careful handling of the stakeholders, necessary adjustments to the golf calendar will be changed and announced accordingly. The DHA Independance Day Golf Cup Open, a highly rated championship, was held from Jan.
Another change concerns the Al Burq Open Golf Championship. This will now take place from November 5th to 7th on the Mangla Golf Course. The dates for the famous CJCSC Open Golf Championship are November 10-14. New dates for the Governors’ Cup Open are from November 26th to 28th and the venue for these cardinal and championships is the Karachi Golf Club Golf Course. Hopefully this will end a lot of uncertainty and bring relief to the country’s professional golfers who rely on open tournaments for a living.
The Chief of Naval Staff’s golf championship was the first open golf championship on the 2021-22 calendar, and it was hosted on the remarkably exceptional course at Karachi Golf Club by professionals such as Shabbir Iqbal, the golden boy of Pakistani golf, Ahmed. fought fiercely and aggressively Baig, the experienced Waheed Baloch and many other competent and capable contenders who did not emerge as the front runners, but managed to make good money with respectable positions in the leaderboard.
The month of September is full of golf competitions that create interesting situations for golfers of skill and caliber. In the spotlight are talented amateur exponents such as Yashal Shah, SaimShazli, Hamza Shikoh, ArsalanShikoh and Omar Khalid at the 11th President SGA Cup 2021, which will be held on the Karachi Golf Course from September 3rd to 5th, who strives for recognition through such championships , will produce masterpieces that will be remembered for a long time. And then comes the 2nd PGF Inter Club Golf Championship, which has proven to be a meeting between prestigious clubs from each province. While this is a team affair, technically it is the individual games that make the occasion where the team make-up consists of top-notch amateurs, savvy seniors, women and teenage boys and girls aspiring to become champions of golf Add flavor.
Towards the end of September the golf scene moves to Lahore, where the unique and remarkable PGF Match Play Championship will be played at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club Golf Course. In this competition of the best and unmatched in the national golf sport, you will witness the deeds of many of the greats of our national golf scene, in which the stroke is automatically perfected. With the support of the PGF, extraordinary progress can be expected in Pakistan’s golf arenas.