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Excellent weather
The weather gods were gracious and the course was in peak condition, absolutely kind to the capacity crowd that gave the course good and bad treatment. The happy award ceremony was crowded and the restaurant at lunch time was choked to capacity over a high class Oriental Buffet, laced with Scotlands best & hosted by Ally Weerasinghe Ltd.

Mervyn excels
Mervyn Hettiarachchi who just recently crowned himself with glory with an excellent win was once again in the forefront with a stunning collection of 41 points to tie with Navin de Silva & Harris Serasinghe. Hetti had the best back nine and collected the handsome award from Avinda Weerasinghe. A popular winner he received rousing applause at award time. Navin of A340 fame came 2nd followed by Serasinghe.

In the ladies event Dilini de Soysa beat Anusha Senadhira by 2 points to collect a handsome award.

In the Seniors D.S.P.S. de Silva the smartest exponent of the hammer & sickle swing came good with a great score of 41 points to beat P.R. Balaratnarajah. De Silva swung to success in the hidden holes competition with 18 points and a comfortable win. In the Junior event Sanjay Gunawardena still under Norman Gunawardena's wing came good with 39 points to beat little Zen Dharmaratne a promising fella.

Sarath Piyaratne the Captain was eloquent at the award ceremony. Avinda Weerasinghe responded superbly.

Delighted with the success of the event he promised to ensure repeats in the years to come. His brother Asanga helped at the award ceremony and so did elegant Chitranee Wickrama-Adithiya with an unusually attractive cover crop hair style. The fun through lunch time was pacy and bouncy. The community singing had its patches of disaster but then Norman Gunawardena and Ajantha Mylvaganam took over superbly backed by Ron Bakelman and gave us the joy of listening. Much thanks to AWL for a great sponsorship & much credit to Sarath Piyaratne & Kumar Borelessa for the skilful handling of a tricky competition.

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