Shanghai: Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers counted numbers of a different kind when it hosted 53 of its special guests and employees for a golf day at Silport over the East and Center courses.

Playing under the New New Peoria scoring system, the field got a break early when the morning rain let up just before the rules briefing. With the ground wet and the conditions overcast, the golf day proved largely a two-horse race down to the wire between six handicap Steven Yang and 7.2 handicap Xia Xinghua.

When it was all over, the lower handicap prevailed as Yang, the nearest-the-pin winner among the men, won by a nose with round of nine-over 81 for the gross championship, one shot ahead of Xia.

The nett championship proved equally hot as Tony Tsai, a 24 handicap, shot a 94 for a nett 70, just ahead of runner-up Po B Chan, a 21.6 handicap who carded a 93 for a nett 71.4.

Gray Gu claimed the men’s longest drive with a massive 270-yard blast on the Center Course ninth hole, while Liu Huiling took the ladies honor with a 170-yard drive on the same hole.

Liu proved she was equally good in her short game as she took the ladies’ nearest-the-pin honor when she put her shot within eight feet of the flag on the East Course third hole. Also recognized was Zhao Lei for best ball according to gross putts and the lucky 7 winners Luo Zhuping, Gerren Grayer, Martin Law and Kevin Wang. The players all had the opportunity to experience for themselves what it was like to live in the limelight as a photography team from Golf Punk was on hand to shoot the tournament. Upon completion of play, the players came into the clubhouse and chose a pose, and only a moment later their photos displayed prominently on mock covers of the innovative golf magazine.