Johnnie Walker team wins golf league

Johnnie Walker team wins golf league

BOGOR, West Java (JP): The Johnnie Walker team hung on to win
the Ericsson Corporate Golf League concluded at the Rancamaya
Golf and Country Club yesterday.

Spearheaded by Justin Frizelle, the team, which had a healthy
lead going into the sixth and final leg yesterday, collected a
mediocre 19 league points to cling on to the top spot with an
aggregate point of 152.

Mega Kuningan was just nine points behind, followed by Allan
Boadle's Citra Regency team.

Senayan Golf Club team won the final leg with 30 points, but
finished seventh overall.

The competition, played for the second year running, applied a
ball stableford format. It fielded 64 golfers from 16 companies,
including The Jakarta Post which finished in equal 12th along
with Phillips Mobile Phone.

The final round of the league was scheduled to take place last
month but was postponed due to sporadic riots in the capital,
according to Barbara J. Spiers, the promotion manager of event
organizer Indo Multi Media.

Spiers said the league gave participants an opportunity to
enjoy sport and do business at the same time.

"This serves as the best venue to lobby and to compete as
well," she said. "Most participants appeared to have a reunion
during the tournament because they had been very close to one
another since the first league in 1996."

The league offered a total of US$3,500 in cash prizes, plus
four cell phones and roundtrip air tickets with Ansett Australia
from Bali to Australia. (emf/bay)