The Asia Pacific Golf Confederation’s most high-profile occasion has concluded after an intense competitors and a 3 method play off. The spectators, media, organizers and gamers had been jubilant watching Jasper Stubbs, a participant from the neighborhood rising as a champion. Stubbs got here from behind to say the title.
The playoff was among the many three gamers China’s Wenyi Ding, Sampson Zheng and the native favourite Stubbs, who began 6 strokes behind Zheng the third-round chief however used his expertise within the Sandbelt and coping with the blustery wind situations to card a two-under-par spherical of 69 and completed with a one-over-par whole of 285 for the Championship. Stubbs is the 4th Australian to turn into ACC champion, successful a spot within the upcoming 2024, The Open and The Masters. The dream of each Newbie Golfer.
TARS certified, Munazza Shaheen, first Woman Referee from Pakistan was one of many championship referees, who had been honoured by being invited by R&A, Scotland to referee the celebrated occasion. Whereas expressing her gratitude to be a part of this magnanimous occasion, she entails her refereeing expertise at APGC Males Newbie Championship, saying, “It was a steep studying curve, the detailed thorough and meticulous planning and execution of the occasion has taught her not solely the group and communication abilities however above all of the significance of realizing your guidelines nicely and delivering it to participant in a method that he/she is glad and know that each one referees are utterly neutral and really honest in all their selections.
For them, the standard of the occasion is straight proportional to the skilled perspective of the organizing committee and good refereeing is the soul of it,” she added.
R&A, Guidelines Academy prides itself in working Golf Guidelines Applications for coaching, inspiring referees, who selected to attend the TARS seminar, at St Andrews, Scotland. The establishment additionally takes upon itself to supply alternatives for the freshmen/girls to referee tournaments below the supervision of skilled senior referees.
Grant Moir, the Govt Director – Governance, at R&A was very optimistic about Munazza’s capabilities, elaborating, “It’s nice when we’ve got folks come by means of the degrees and be given the chance to referee at a world occasion like this and this in itself is a good alternative to study from the skilled referees who’re right here. I’m certain Munazza will take an terrible lot from this. Hopefully, she goes again with much more information, expertise and concepts that she will put into apply again dwelling in Pakistan.”
Munazza Shaheen’s refereeing colleagues, who got here from completely different international locations together with China, Japan, Korea and New Zealand, expressed that there are numerous of their international locations who’ve been refereeing for years aren’t but invited to this occasion, and he or she is getting this invitation inside eight months of her Degree three Certification is a giant achievement.
Munazza, in an acknowledgment assertion, said, “The distinguished worldwide expertise wouldn’t have been gained with out the wholehearted assist of my household. I’m grateful to Mr. Taimur Hassan, President APGC, who was revered and was nicely obtained by different officers, for extending all doable facilitation. Col Zahid, who has all the time been there to information and advise me.”
She expressed, “Dr. Asma Shami is my mentor, I derive all my power from her, and he or she was with me in spirit each step of the best way, each on and off the golf course. I’m extremely grateful to her. She additionally said, “I had the pleasure of assembly Brig Sajjad Akram, Secretary PGF, who acknowledged my success inducing onerous work and warranted me that PGF will proceed to facilitate and promote my efforts. I really feel humbled and expressed my gratitude to PGF who has been in full assist of all of the achievements thus far!
Pakistan is a land stuffed with expertise, given alternatives, the expertise blooms and it’s people like Munazza Shaheen, who play an important function in projecting Pakistan, significantly the comfortable picture of Pakistan to the skin world.