{"id":19497,"date":"2021-01-08T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=19497"},"modified":"2021-01-08T12:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T12:04:27","slug":"ary-laguna-sponsors-omar-khalid-for-qatar-open-golf-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=19497","title":{"rendered":"ARY Laguna sponsors Omar Khalid for Qatar Open Golf Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Karachi: President and CEO of ARY Digital Network Mr. Salman Iqbal has announced to bear all expenses of National Amateur Golf Championship Omar Khalid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

ARY Laguna will sponsor the 16-year-old Omar for the upcoming Qatar Open Amateur Championship, scheduled at Doha Golf Club from February 25-27.<\/p>\n

Mr. Salman made the announcement in the meeting with Omar and Governor Sindh Imran Ismail at Governor House.<\/p>\n

Mr.Salman handed ARY Laguna’s jersey to Omar and said that ARY’s logo will be imprinted alongside Pakistan’s logo on his jersey in Qatar Open.<\/p>\n

“I met governor last night and we discussed Omar’s abilities and the governor told me that he has a handicap of 2,” President ARY said.<\/p>\n

“I researched with former cricket team captain Wasim Akram and we decided to immediately take Omar on board,” he added.<\/p>\n

Mr. Salman emphasized that there’s a need to support one-man sport like Tennis and Golf. “I am always advocating the fact that sports is the only place to push youngsters,” he maintained.<\/p>\n

It must be noted that Omar won the 60th National Amateur Golf Championship of Pakistan last Sunday. He became the youngest ever player to claim the country\u2019s most prestigious title.<\/p>\n

Wasim Akram, who also took part in the championship and termed Omar as the ‘Pakistan Sports Find of the Year’<\/p>\n

“Played a round of golf with Pakistan’s latest sports sensation. <\/span>Omar Khalid<\/span>, who I see as Pakistan sport’s ‘find of the year’ is just 16 and is youngest ever player in history to win the prestigious National Amateur Golf Championship,” Wasim tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n

“He is talented & focused bright future ahead,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Karachi: President and CEO of ARY Digital Network Mr. Salman Iqbal has announced to bear all expenses of National Amateur Golf Championship Omar Khalid. ARY […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19499,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19497\/revisions\/19499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}