DIPLOMATIC SPOTLIGHT
The Washington Diplomat
June 2014
10th Annual Embassy Golf Tournament
INTEREST To mark the 10th year of its Embassy Golf Tournament, The Washington Diplomat took the popular annual event to 12 Months a new E AS CASH!venue: Worthington Manor Golf Club in Maryland, a U.S. Open Qualifying site with accolades ranging from
“Best Courses You Can Play” by Golfweek to “Middle Atlantic’s 50 Best Courses” by GolfStyles. The approved credit nimum purchase of participated in the tournament called the course challenging but rewarding. ers who 00 APR 23.97%
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This year’s Embassy Golf Tournament, held May 2, was hosted under the diplomatic patronage of Ambassador of Singapore Ashok Kumar Mirpuri. Past diplomatic hosts include ambassadors from India, Canada, the Philippines, Kazakhstan, South Africa and Morocco. This is the only golf tournament designed especially for the city’s diplomatic corps, as well as top officials from the U.S. government, multilateral agencies and the corporate world. A lunch kicked off the tournament, which was followed by a dinner awards reception, with raffle prizes that included a JVC 48-inch flat-screen TV; wine donated by the Embassy of Australia; rum from the Embassy of Barbados; an American Harvest Vodka gift basket; and stays at the Willard InterContinental Washington, Loews Annapolis Hotel, Melrose Georgetown To view all Hotel, State Plaza Hotel and Fairfax at Embassy Row. the photos Sponsors included Obsidian Men’s Health, the George Washington from the tournament, University Hospital, Coca-Cola, Omega, DHL Express, Volvo-EuroMotorcars, be sure to like Mandarin Oriental, Sahouri Insurance, MillerMusmar CPAs and many others. The Washington Diplomat on Facebook. — Photos by Jessica Latos of Paired Images —
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Don Pruett of Quinn Evans Architects, Ambassador of Laos Seng Soukhathivong, Jordy Coho of Don Beyer Volvo and Brian Brown of the Embassy of the Bahamas make a putt.
Hairul Al Rashid of the Embassy of Malaysia, center, makes his putt as his colleague Ahmad Ramdzan Daud, left, and Barbara McMahon of Loews Annapolis Hotel look on.
Ambassador of Singapore Ashok Kumar Mirpuri welcomes golfers before the start of the tournament.
Raymond Wong Heng Tem, Nicholas Phan Choon Chieh, Tania Koh and Ambassador Ashok Kumar Mirpuri represent the Singaporean Embassy.
Former Ambassador of Libya Ali Aujali surveys the scene.
Ambassador of Barbados John Beale, Dr. Qais Musmar, Joey Musmar of MillerMusmar CPAs, and Ameen Estaiteyeh of Investology Inc. 3Dr. Daniel Parks of Partner MD and Dr. Shane Geib and Dr. Marc Richman of Obsidian Men’s Health in Northern Virginia.
Volvo Cars of North America donated a Volvo S60 to a hole-in-a-one contest.
Dr. Michael Seneff of the George Washington University Hospital, Thomas Seneca of T.M. Wealth Management, former Rep. Don Bonker (D-Wash.) of APCO Worldwide, and Ambassador of Singapore Ashok Kumar Mirpuri.
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Ambassador of Cambodia Heng Hem, Kerry Murray of Worldwide Insight LLC, Don Anderson, general manager of the Fairfax at Embassy Row Hotel, and Benjamin Hur of the Fairfax at Embassy Row.
Whatmore Goora of the Embassy of Zimbabwe.
4Chief Financial Officer of CTI Bragi Valgeirsson, Steen Johansson of the Embassy of Iceland, Ambassador of Iceland Gudmundur Arni Stefansson, and GlobeScope President Stefan Gudjohnsen.
Oleksandr Pakhil of the Embassy of Ukraine, Leo Lee of the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), Patrick Birchall, general manager of the Willard InterContinental Washington, and Richard C. Brown of the Associated General Contractors of America.
Nicholas Phan Choon Chieh of the Embassy of Singapore, Ryan Perkins and Christian Martin, both of DHL Express, came in first place.
The Washington Diplomat
June 2014