The second qualifying round of the 18th Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge, held at the Yas Links, Abu Dhabi, has identified the second group of teams to qualify for the Grand Finals, to be held later this year. Manny Ostojic and Mattias Bjorn from Jump Sports Academies team scored 47 points to be declared the winners, followed by Nicholas Hymas and Ghazi Arungazeb from Dubai & Surfers team in second place with 45 points. Two teams scored 44 points each, and after countback, third place went to Christopher Bentley and Christian Seear from The Strokers team, and fourth place to Hiram Diggines and Andrea Hartley from Dream Team. In fifth spot was Aseem Azim and Saquib Mahmood from S&A team with 42 points. DeVere Acuma's Nearest the Pin on hole 8 was won by Sungjin Hwang, and Chrysler's hole 17 Nearest the Pin by Ken Lowry. A new on-course competition — ‘King of Pars' — sponsored by DeVere Acuma has been introduced to the 2016 Challenge. This competition recognizes and rewards teams that perform best on Par 3's, Par 4's and Par 5's. The teams that score the best on the various hole types win a prize as well as a spot on the ‘Golden Ticket' draw, which will see the lucky entrant win a place in the 2016 Grand Final. Winners of the first qualifier's King of Pars are; King of the Par 3s: Sungjin Hwang and Moonwon Jo; King of the Par 4s: Peter Godard and Chris Hewett; King of the Par 5s: Mira Milligan and Iain Milligan. Partners of the tournament this year include: Ajman Tourism (Host City – Grand Final), deVere Acuma, Chrysler, and new sponsor Select Property Group. The Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge began in the UAE in 1997 and was supported by the UAE Golf Association. Since then, the event has grown to become one of the region's most prestigious and leading sporting events in the golf environment, with the objective of providing companies with a platform of mixing business with pleasure.
