2010 Royal & Ancient Charity Golf Tournament Nov 18th
2010-12-03
The British Chamber of Commerce 2010 Royal & Ancient Charity Golf Tournament
On Friday 18th November fifteen teams turned up at the Miramar Golf and Country Club to participate in the annual British Chamber of Commerce Charity Golf Tournament. Registration started a 06.00am and teams were ready for the 7.00am Shot Gun Start. On the way round the course there were a number of novelty hole events including Between the Cabers, Longest Drive (Men and Women), Hit the Scotsman, Eagle on a Par 5, Nearest to the Pin and Nearest to the Dirk. The tournament ended with lunch and a prize giving ceremony.
Overall Winners:
First place was team HSBC; Tim Basford, Clive Bucknall, James Binns and David Marshall
Second place was team HSBC Insurance; Lee Wood, Billy Lu, Oliver Chen and Stanley Lin
Runner up was team Marta and the boys; Martha Change de Tsien, Michael Wong, Mike Lenius and Tim Paech
Winners of Novelty Holes/Events:
Nearest to the Pin – Duncan Levine, Mike Lenius and Joyce Jewell
Men’s Longest – Tony Ambrosino, Tim Paech
Ladies Longest Drive – Marta Chang de Tsien and Nora Wong
Nearest the Dirk – Oliver Chen
Eagle on the Par – Sandy Duncan and Michael Wong
The funds raised at the golf tournament will be used to support a range of relief and rehabilitation services facilitated by the Salvation Army to help homeless people in Taipei including meals, shower and changing facilities, clothing, referral to health and welfare services as well as basic life skills and employment schemes. In addition the Chamber will continue to support to Children’s SOS Village based in Taoyuan which provides care and support for abused as well as emotionally troubled children and young people.
Special thanks go to Sandy Duncan, Mike Jewell, Steve Parker and Ron Carlyle for helping to organise this event making the day such fun. Additional thanks goes to Standard Chartered Bank the event premier sponsor as well as everyone else who supported the event either through sponsorship or donation of prizes including:
Albert Smith Taiwan
Audi
BP Taiwan Marketing
CAPCO
Community Services Center
Crown Relocations
CTCI Corporation HSBC Bank
Jardine Matheson Group Taiwan
Pernod Ricard
Scottish Development International
Swire Group Taiwan
Unilever Taiwan
Volvo
