Poland - Japan 2009

XI edition of Poland - Japan golf match took place last Saturday on Lisia Polana golf course near Warsaw. Like in previous years marketing communication agency ABK Grupa was the organizer.

First player appeared before 9:00 a.m. Quick registration and warm-up, punctual coming of golfers and almost one hundred per cent attendance enabled start match according to plan - start from hole nr one and hole nr ten. Sunny weather was rarely disturbed by sounds of thunderstorm.

Competitors played fast and precisely. Short - lived rain impeded the pace of competition for the moment.

First time in the history of such matches, Japanese team defeated Polish team 262 points to 249 points. Yusuke Miki was the best player in Japanese team scoring 42 points and Władek Szwoch was the best Polish player scoring 38 points. The tournament was played in stableford format - seven best scores is taken into account to general team score.

After the match players could have a lunch and award ceremony took place.

Sponsors of the event, Bacardi Martini Polska distributor of Otard cognac and InterContinental Warsaw, prepared attractive prizes.

Detailed scores of the tournament are below, phots from the event are in the gallery.

POS.	Name & Surname	score
1	Szwoch Władek	38
2	Jung Mark	37
3	Szwedek Adam	36
4	Jędrzejczyk Jerzy	35
	Bauld Douglas	35
6	Koperski Wojciech	35
7	Chodzeń Lech	34
8	Soporek Włodzimierz	33
	Ratyński Michał	33
10	Bęś Dariusz	32
11	Reda Mirek	30
12	Sowa Marek	29
	Fedorczuk Roman	29
14	Jędrzejczak Jarosław	26

POS.	Name & Surname	score
1	Yusuke Miki	42
2	Akihiro Hayashi	40
3	Satoru Shinozaki	40
4	Kunihiko Uchimura	36
5	Takahiro Tojo	35
6	Ryouichi Nozaki	35
7	Takao Kobayashi	34
8	Satoshi Ohbuchi	34
9	Masanori Iwano	33
	Takashi Nemoto	33
11	Junichi Suzuki	31
12	Toshiri Iwano	29
13	Minoru Nagano	27
14	Yuji Nishiyama	25
15	Hikaru Hayashi	24