| Tissa
Jayasinghe captures Celltel Classic in cavalier style
Much credit to Duminda Ratnayake the Chief Executive of Celltel
GSM for a superbly organized and excellently presented encounter
at the Ridgeways of the Royal Colombo. Much praise to Anijith Singh
too.
Cavalier
Tissa
Tissa Jayasinghe in cavalier style pounced on the Celltel
Classic to win comfortably with nett 67. Off the tee Tissa hits
a helluva long and accurate ball and when he gets round the greens
his recently gained accuracy gives him a chip and a putt. He recorded
28 putts through the round and much deserves the massive applause
he picked up at the award ceremony.
David
Evans messed up the 14th with 8 strokes to surrender 2nd place to
C. Amerasinghe who was quite impressive on nett 70. Doc.C joined
bringing up the rear or at the bottom of the ladder Nirmal Hettiarachchy
who just recently struck the magical Hole-in-One. Thurairaja was
in a messy collection of rough shots.
'B'
Division
M.H. Lee and Sarath Piyaratne settled for a tie on 69.
Piyaratne who was moving well quite suddenly lost his cool to go
negligent and pay the price beaten by Lee whose rear nine was better.
Confetti was available in abundance with Lalith Ramanayake, Rohan
Fernando, Sarath Sirisena and Anoup Kundanmal contributing substantially.
S.A.W. Manawadu, Lalinda Dharmadasa and S. Subramaniam cracked pond
riddled centuries.
'C'
Division
Gangling Roshan J. Perera was in tremendous form from
his first tee shot. Calm, collected and accurate he protected his
strokes to move to 89 and win recognition for not only taking the
'C' Division trophy but also registering the lowest score for the
day nett 64. Thrilled with his first time victory the man was beaming
all night willing to give a shot by shot commentary to anyone willing
to listen. Lester Weinman a huge hitter off the tee struck good
form too. He was calculating and surrendering flamboyancy for steady
play he came up with an excellent nett 65 just one stroke behind
Perera. Mohan Selvaratnam was the first to flash a century and a
few others who joined the mess were Lal de Mel, Ken de Alwis, Lucian
Ratnayake and Rohith Fonseka. The confetti production was loaded
with S. Weeraratne, Rahula Seneviratne & A. Jawadh contributing
lavishly.
Masters
That man again Lester Weinman continued his streak of
success when his nett 65 won him the Masters Division beating another
steady and calculated striker Majeed Awn by just one stroke. Kumarasinghe
Boralessa helped Weinman to celebrate joyfully.
Seniors
Joe Perera came good in the Seniors with a great nett
66. Norman Gunawardena has been striking the ball consistently well
these last few weeks and I have been hearing his shot by shot description
of play on Sundays over fine wine. He was cruising to victory when
one ugly shot crept into his stock and with that went all chances
of a happy ending.
Gymkhana
Events
Dilip Kodikara was absolutely stunning with a delightful
streak of 312 yards off the 8th tee box. It was a great shot worthy
of a Celltel Trophy. In the nearest to the pin contest off the 9th
tee H.K. Kwak was massively aided by the omnipotent. Then a shot
that was straying came back magically to settle 5 feet. from the
pin. Aniljith Singh, Director of Celltel, amply rewarded him.
The
Award ceremony was slick, Boralessa was crisp & Duminda Ratnayake
and Anijith appeared pleased with the whole world over the success
of their tournament. Celltel GSM did themselves proud. |
