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The inaugural Royal Trophy will be held at Amata Spring Country Club in Bangkok, Thailand from January 7-8, 2006. The Ryder Cup-style showdown between Asia and Europe will have two Indian golfers - Arjun Atwal and Jyoti Randhawa. The eight member Asian team comprises of players from JPGA Tour and Asian Tour. Spanish great Seve Ballesteros will be the captain of the European team.

There will be 16 matches involving foursomes, four-ball and singles on January 7 and 8. The winning team will share $1 million and the runners-up will share $500,000.

Asian Team: Thaworn Wiratchant (Tha), Thongchai Jaidee (Tha), Jyoti Randhawa (Ind), Yasuharo Imano (Jpn), Keiichiro Fukabori (Jpn), Hur Suk-ho (Kor), Arjun Atwal (Ind – captain's pick), Zhang Lian-wei (Chn – captain's pick)

European team:

Non-playing captain Seve Ballesteros of Spain, David Howell of England, Ireland’s Paul McGinley, Thomas Björn of Denmark, England’s Kenneth Ferrie, Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland, Swede Henrik Stenson and the two wildcard picks, Nick Faldo of England and Ian Woosnam of Wales.

Is there no online coverage for the royal trophy??

I know there is live coverage on television for the last 2 days..but so far no info online..no scores!?!?!?

Sridhar

Keep an eye on european tour website for updates..


btw, Sridhar not joining the weekly golf contest?

The first Royal Trophy encounter between Asia and Europe is on this week-end. Arjun and Jyoti are in the Asian team, as this story says:

http://www.golftoday.co.uk/news/yeartod ... oyal4.html

And here's a story (from AFP) in the local press talking about the event that starts tomorrow:

http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp? ... sec=sports

I didn't realise that Arjun was rated the best putter in the PGA last year, as this story says!
It should be interesting to see veterans like Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam go up against the buoyant Asian team.

PKB,

there is already a royal trophy thread in the Asian Tour thread started by BS...we can continue all tlk bout this trophy there!!

Sridhar

Asians started off very badly in foursomes and are trailing 1-3 aftre the morning session.. Arjun/ Jyothi lost 4&3 to Mcginley and Mcdowell..

In fourball (afternoon session), Arjun / jyothi is up 2 after 4 holes against Howell/ Ferrie

I am waitin for the live telecast to start...It will start in bout half an hour and last 4hrs....

Sridhar

The Indians are 3 up after 7 holes

Jyoti setting the pace wid 2 birdies and an eagle!!!

Asia 2-Europe 2 so far in this best ball format

EDIT


The europeans won the 8th against the Indian pair......The 8th was a par 3 with a floating green!!! A sight to behold!!

Sridhar

Well the Indians won their match up...they were 3 up wid 4 holes to play but somehow the Englishmen hung in and it boiled down to the last putt ...

Finally Jyoti and Arjun won with 1 up!

Sridhar

Europeans need 2.5 points in 8 single matches to take home the trophy... while Asians need to get 6 points ..

Arjun is playing Faldo (good experience for Match play) and Jyoti is playing Mcdowell..

Europeans are leading in two matches.. And looks like a big thrashing is on cards

The Europeans win the Royal trophy but it was a close affair.....the Asians lost 9-7.......Atwal played well to beat Nick Faldo....Jyoti after being 3 down early in the round managed to claw back to make it all square but then again McDoweel picked up his game to beat Jyoti by 2......

In yesterdays 4ball after some 15 holes it did seem that the Asians would win atleast 2 of the matchplays...If only they had done that!!!

Nevertheless not a bad effort considering the Europeans had a great line up but disappointing to c Asia lose!

Sridhar

Thanks for the score updates sridhar.

Also, thanks for all your tennis reports from chennai open!!

cheers,
-kujo

Overall, it wasn't a bad show from Asia. The final score of 9-7 is pretty close. One additional win would have tied the scores.

Asia lost 7-9.

Arjun shone with a 2-1 record (including winning his singles), while Jyoti went 1-2 (including losing his singles).

Overall, the Asians did poorly in team play (losing 2-6) but won the singles matchups 5-3.