{"id":67889,"date":"2018-07-03T07:27:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T05:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67889"},"modified":"2018-07-03T07:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T05:27:33","slug":"nabir-gaffar-shim-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/03\/nabir-gaffar-shim-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Nabir Gaffar, Shim shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY MPHATSO MALIDADI:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nabir Gaffar won the championship of the inaugural Worldwide Diagnostics Limited Golf Tournament held at Country Club Limbe on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Competition in the men\u2019s section was stiff as a count-back tie-breaker was used to separate three top players.<\/p>\n<p>Gaffar collected 39 points, just like second and third-placed Nelson Mkwende and Anthony Kasunda, who were counted out to their respective positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really tight and that it went down to the wire just confirms how tough it was. I was inspired by the senior golfers. They were a source of motivation. Let me also thank the sponsors for organising such a wonderful tournament,\u201d Gaffar said.<\/p>\n<p>In the ladies\u2019 section, Myungbook Shim won the championship with 40 points while Ireen Mphatso finished on second position with 37 points<\/p>\n<p>In the senior golfers\u2019 category, John Magombo emerged champion whereas Kingsley Chimdima Mhango was counted out to finish on second position.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the sponsors\u2019 behalf, Sumant Nayak said they organised the tournament so as to enlighten the golfers about the company\u2019s services, which include X-rays, ultrasound, mammography ACT and radiographic procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe turnout was also impressive. We had a field of 55 golfers. We look forward to hosting more tournaments in future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Convener of the tournament, Chapusa Phiri commended Worldwide Diagnostics Limited for sponsoring the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide Diagnostics Limited is a radiology diagnostic centre situated at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Blantyre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MPHATSO MALIDADI: Nabir Gaffar won the championship of the inaugural Worldwide Diagnostics Limited Golf Tournament held at Country Club Limbe on Saturday. Competition in the men\u2019s section was stiff as a count-back tie-breaker was used to separate three top players. Gaffar collected 39 points, just like second and third-placed Nelson Mkwende and Anthony Kasunda, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67893,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67889\/revisions\/67893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}