CIS win inaugural NDB Wealth Schools Team golf tournament
View(s):Sri Lanka’s most popular junior golf tournament, the NDB Private Wealth Junior Masters Golf Championship, recently concluded its 2018 edition with a stunning exhibition of golfing acumen. Now in its fourth year, the tournament hosted by expert financial planner NDB Wealth Management, in partnership with Sri Lanka Golf,witnessed thrilling competition by a talented field that encompassed 21 schools teams and 96 junior golfers from across the island.
(From left): Individual Event and School Team Event winners Vinod Weerasinghe, Kvahn Tejwani, Reshan Algama, Taniya Balasuriya and Kaya Daluwatte with their trophies
Held on the morning of August 8, 2018, at the historic Royal Colombo Golf Club (RGCG), this year’s competition saw a team from Colombo International School emerge victorious in the tournament’s first-ever Junior Golf School Team event. Comprising Reshan Algama and Kvahn Tejwani, this successful pairing beat out the competition from a field comprising 21 schools.
Individual and school team junior golfers from the following competed: British School, Colombo International School, Royal College, S. Thomas’ College Mt Lavinia, D.S. Senanayake College, St. Peter’s College, Ladies College, Sri Jayawardanapura Balika Vidyalaya, President’s College Kotte, Killinochchi Central College, Senarathwela Maha Vidyalaya Digana, Trinity College, Isipathana College, Springfield College, Susumayawardena Vidyalaya, Asoka College, R.A.Z. International School, Good Rest Convent, Holy Trinity College, IBS College Nuwara Eliya, Keynesia International School, Our Lady’s Primary School, Lyceum International School Nuwara Eliya, OKI International School, Paynter Memorial School, Ecol International, Mahaberiyatanna Tamil Vidiyalaya, Central College Anuradhapura, Walisinghe Harischandra Maha Vidyalaya, Niwaththakachetiya Maha Vidyalaya and St. Xavier’s College.
The winners of the NDB Private Wealth Junior Masters Golf Championship 2018 School Team event was Colombo International School, comprising Reshan Algama and Kvahn Tejwani.
In the Individual event Reshan Algama became the Overall winner. Vinod Weerasinghe won the Senior Boys category for the age category of over 12 years and under 19 years while Taniya Balasuriya won the Senior Girls category of the same age group.
Reshan Algama won the Junior Boys category for the age category of 12 years and below, while Kaya Daluwatte clinched the Junior Girls category in the same age group. Most important of all, the 2018 tournament continued its mission to popularise the sport of junior golf in Sri Lanka among the schools.
School Team Event winners Kvahn Tejwani and Reshan Algama (center left and center right) from Colombo International School receiving their award from Air Chief Marshal Harsha Abeywickrama, the President of the Sri Lanka Golf Union (far left) and Prabodha Samarasekera, the CEO of NDB Wealth Management (far right)
“I congratulate Colombo International School for winning the first-ever Junior Golf School Team event and hope that this would be a start to what games like rugby and cricket have achieved. This is an initiative that has been additionally helped along by NDB Wealth’s continued support of programmes like the National Junior Golf Rankings. NDB Wealth was the sole sponsor for the National Junior Golf Rankings in both 2016 and 2017, partnering Sri Lanka Golf,” said Niloo Jayatilake, Chairperson of the Junior Sub Committee, Sri Lanka Golf.
“Beyond our individual winners and runners-up earning NDB Wealth accounts of significant value, which will serve as an investment into their sporting future, every single participant at the NDB Private Wealth Junior Masters Golf Championship 2018 will once again receive a NDB Wealth account. We are making this significant and strategic investment to bolster national interest in junior golf, which we feel is very important since we believe it is Sri Lanka’s best chance to bring home Gold at a future Olympics,” commented Prabodha Samarasekera, CEO of NDB Wealth Management.