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