18-03-2025
Four players tie for lead at Clutch Pro Tour UAE Championship in Al Ain
Four players shot an opening round of six under par 64 to lead the Clutch Pro Tour's GB Pounds 50,000 UAE Championship, held at Al Ain Equestrian, Shooting & Golf Club, Abu Dhabi. UAE.
Round one was suspended due to darkness with all players unable to complete their first rounds.
Play will resume at 6.40 am for the players to complete their first rounds with the round two tee times remaining as originally published.
Jack Yule (Eng), Sam Hessian (Eng), George Mason (Eng) and Mark Power (Ire) are at the top of the leaderboard as the tournament stands.
The most attractive card of the day was handed in by Mason, representing Wath Golf Club, who started on tee 10 and went out in 30, five under par.
Mason had five birdies without reply in his opening nine holes and secured three birdie twos on holes 13, 15 and 17 – to set up his impressive round.
A bogey on hole 1, his 10 th hole was the only blemish to his card – with further birdies on holes 5 and 6 to hand in the joint best round of the day.
Yule, representing Kings Lynn Golf Club, starting on hole 10, had just one bogey on his card, the second hold on the card – his 11 th .
Hessian, representing Sunningdale Golf Club, and Power, representing Mount Juliet Golf Club, both had clean cards of six pars and no bogeys.
On a day of strong scoring, 53 players beat the strict par of 70.
The 54-hole tournament locally sanctioned by the Emirates Golf Federation (EGF), saw an oversubscribed field of 154 players competing – both males and females with plenty of UAE players competing alongside the best of the Clutch Tour – their first tournament of the 2025 season.
On the local scene leading scores came from a regular supporter of events in the UAE, James Nash (Ormskirk Golf Club, England), with a 66 in tied ninth, as well as amateur
Viktor Larsson (The Els Club, Dubai) a 68 in tied 26 th alongside on the same score Alkyonie Aharidis (The Els Club, Dubai).
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Leaders (Par 70).
The list of players includes J. Yule (Eng), S. Hessian (Eng), G. Mason (Eng), M. Power (Ire), J. Lando Casanova (Fr), J. Galbraith (Eng), J. Cope (Eng), J. Ayres (Eng), A. Chesters (Eng), M. Gauntlett (Eng), R. Brooks (Eng), H. Hussein (Eng), J. Nash (Wales), and J. Claridge (Eng).
