$ 25,000 for Charity from Skills Challenge, Cabrera wins Long drive

Aamby Valley: A sum of $ 25,000 went towards the HSB Charity following the Pearls Skills Challenge, which was one of the highly entertaining side events at the Pearls Golf Premier League in association with Aamby Valley on Saturday.
 
The Skills Challenge was fought between the Internationals and the Indians, which was won by the Internationals on tie-breaker. The Internationals comprised Michael Campbell, Daniel Chopra and Thaworn Wiratchant grabbed the honours in the Skills Challenge beating the Indian duo, Shiv Kapur, Gaganjeet Bhullar and Anirban Lahiri on a tie-break where Daniel Chopra beat Lahiri on the flop shot.
 
 
The format was all three players from both sides had two attempts each at Flop shot, bunker shot, Chip and finally a long putt. The winning team got three points for each of the challenges and there was one point for the losing team.
 
 
While Michael Campbell won the flop shot for internationals, Chopra was the best out of the bunker. Later Shiv Kapur topped the Chip shot challenge and Bhullar was closest to the pin in the long putt. With the scores 6-6, Chopra beat Lahiri in the flop shot which was played a second time as tie-break.
 
Earlier in the Blackberry Long Drive Challenge, Argentine Angel Cabrera, who is turning out for Maharashtra 59ers topped the contest with 334 yards with Scott Hend (Maharashtra 59ers) a close second at 332 yards.
 
 
Results:
 
Long Drive:
 
Angel Cabrera (Maharashtra 59ers)                  334 yards
 
Scott Hend (Maharashtra 59ers)                       332 yards
 
Johan Edfors (Nippon Kenwood Delhi Darts)    325 yards
 
Cabrera will take home a Blackberry Playbook as his prize.
 
 
Skills Challenge
 
Flop shot:      Michael Campbell            (Internationals)      113.5 inches
 
Bunker:          Daniel Chopra                    (Internationals)      43 inches
 
Chip:              Shiv Kapur                           (Indians)                   42 inches
 
Putt:                Gaganjeet Bhullar            (Indians)                   32 inches