The seventh annual Gulf News Merchants Cup golf tournament will be played today on the prestigious Majlis Course of the Emirates Golf Club.

The tournament, instituted in 1996, is an 18-hole 4-ball team stableford event with 3/4 handicap allowance, played from the Blue Tees for men and Red Tees for ladies over the Majlis Course.
A field of 72 players representing 18 teams will be seen in action.

Each team will be divided into pairs and mixed amongst the field. Each pair will aim to score a betterball stableford score on their card.

On the completion of play, each pair Betterball Stableford score will be combined to give a team total.

Teams

Al Dobowi: S.S. Kandhari, H.A.Ahn, B.J.Song, M. Kuttan.
Fortune Promoseven: Roddy Louther, Ardeshir Firouzabadi, Mark Shadwell, Shaahid Khan
Dubai Duty Free: Brendan O'Shea, Michel Paux, Paul Thornberry, Tom Barry
HSBC Hornets: Peter Loakman, A.N.Other, Steve Martin.
Jumbo Electronics: Suneel Mehra, Kush Sama, Sunil Parsani, Ranjit Gurkar
Pangolf : Avi Bhojani, Rajiv Suri, Aziz Memon, Suneesh Menon
The Team : Joseph Ghossoub, Fadi Mehio, Georges Khairallah, Ghaleb Farha
TD&DDB : Ravi Rao, Paul Joseph, Ismail Mohammed, K. Subramanian
Hackers: Tabarak Razvi, Lee Brett, Mick Brett, Dennis Burkett
Gulf News 1: A.K. Varma, Vinod Nayar, M.P. Sharma, Raashid Ali
Gulf News 2: Alan Cordier, Sanjeev Suri, Andrew Robinson, Samar Roy
Gulf News 3: Mansour Khodjasteh, Rohit Anand, Ashok Bakshi, S.S. Rajkumar
Gulf News 4: Ben Jacob, Robert Mitchell, Bharat Godkhindi, Ranjit Khanna
Gulf News 5: C.B.Ramkumar, Rakesh C. Misra, D. Srinivasn, Rajeev Khanna
Gulf News 6: Damien Byrne, Parry Bahri, Fadi Kachkouche, Naresh Handa
Gulf News 7: Nick Tarratt, Fred Watts, Mohammed Ahmed Khan, Gurmeet Singh
Gulf News 8: Jim Busby, Marwan Rizk.
Gulf News 9: Joerg Lesemann, K.P. Ravi, Juho Halinen, Khalid Al Halyan