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Golf National Championship
The Sri Lanka Golf Union has announced that preparations are afloat for the 112th Championship which will be held in Nuwara Eliya this year through the last weekend of November 2003. The invaders from Pakistan and India are packed and ready and reliable reports have it that we will have arrivals from Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. There is promise from Indonesia too and most probably Dubai. Ana Punchihewa is the new President of the Union and if he puts his organising skills together we are assured of a helluva great competition.

In the old days Pin Fernando 7 times Champion dominated the scene with little or no competition locally but when the invasion commenced from India Pin began to lose the grip against stunning golfers like Prince Pittamber, Biloo Sethi and Vickramjit Singh. After his premature demise the Indians took a stranglehold on our title and as standards remain now there is absolutely no hope of us regaining the crown in the forseable future. In the ladies Title event since Tiru Fernando left the scene we have been pushed into the wilderness unless Thuhashini Selvaratnam, the best product Sri Lanka has produced appears and grabs the Title for us.

Monsoon meetOver the next two weekends the Royal Colombo Golf Club moves into another highly competitive crop of competitions. The North East Monsoon Meet envelopes the following Competitions Clifford Cup, Centenary Trophy, Mackinlay Quaish and the Golf Medal where Rusi Captain has a firm grip and a souk. Nimal Perera, the genial Chairman of Luxury Apartment Developing Premier Pacific Ltd., will sponsor the entire competition and there is no doubt the promotion lost him an arm and a leg.

MacbridesIn the year 1911 the Executive Committee of the R.C.G.C. inaugurated a foursomes competition and presented a Challenge Trophy in memory of Hon. Robert Know Macbride in recognition of the signal contribution he made towards the advancement of Golf in general and the Royal Colombo in particular. November will be loaded with a harvest of Golf over all the weekends. Success is promised with Sarath Piyaratne and Kumar Boralessa behind the scene in Colombo and Clive Tissera in the forefront in Nuwara Eliya.

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