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captures DHL Anniversary Trophy
The Silver Jubilee of DHL the renowned Courier Service was celebrated
with a superbly organized Golf Competition at the Ridgeways of the
Royal Colombo. The weather was exceptionally kind with bright sunshine
prevailing throughout the day.
“A”
Division
Young Richard Gunawardena once again moved into the limelight with
a skilful performance and a praiseworthy score of 41. He captured
the handsome DHL Silver Anniversary trophy. S. Vairanathan another
spirited player came behind with a comparatively good score of 39
points. Priya Fernando, Arjun Fernando and Sarath Wickremaratne
completed their rounds with pauper scores.
“B”
Division
Nihal Alagoda was in splendid form with an almost error free round
collecting 45 points. Strong off the tee Alagoda was firm and positive
on the greens to be rewarded with a few one putts. He was a popular
winner and celebrated like hell. Coming 2nd was Zhuang Lizhou a
tall gangling Chinese who hits a helluva long ball. A 10 handicapper
he played good golf in Beijing before he arrived in Sri Lanka. He
is a popular regular who claims he has improved his game and his
style and now looks forward to picking a few trophies. Elmo de Silva,
Nirmal Piyaratne, Simon Northcot and Edward Higgs messed around
in distress.
“C” Division
Prashan Fernando was the most outstanding player through the DHL
Competition. A 22 handicapper cracking 49 magical points can only
happen with the assistance of the omnipotent. However, a couple
of guys who witnessed a major part of the performance claim that
Prashan has style and aptitude and now we happily look forward to
repeat achievements so we can give deserved applause. He won comfortably
beating another excellent score of 45 points coming from the club
heads of S.R. Subramaniam.
Seniors
Two exceptionally pleasant personalities and extremely popular members
Norman Chandraratne and Sugath Weeraratne moved into a titanic struggle
for survival. Both classy seniors they were warmly applauded at
the 19th when it was announced that Weeraratne beat Chandraratne
37 to 36.
Ladies
The Silva twins were thick in the battle. Both equally good, Usha
de Silva moved past Anusha Senadhira with a one point lead. Both
celebrated at the 19th with their usual happy gang.
Gymkhana
Events
Joe Perera also known as the ‘Old Man River’ got himself
jet propelled to swipe a 300 yard drive off the 8th tee and win
the longest drive award and collect his trophy from Romesh David.
Smart M.L. Hirdaramani was well balanced and calculating to stop
8” from the pin on the 9th and he was rewarded. DHL could
not hide anything from Sproule. Stylish left hander Michael Sproule
was exceptionally clever to pick the best scores on 6 Hidden Holes.
He pranced in jubilation, knocked a few beers in merriment and almost
sang the victory song on the way to collect his trophy from Roger
Pichard.
Magical
Shot
Norman Gunawardena got together with his pet 6 Iron on the 16th
tee and placed the icing on the cake with a magical swing and an
almighty chosen shot which gleefully responded by creeping into
the hole soon after impact on the green. Gunawardena jumped for
joy, gifted his caddie lavishly and moved into the Clubhouse to
get locked in the pride of France for an elastic hour at the 19th.
Thanks to DHL the mighty pleasure that followed all evening and
all night was quite intoxicating.
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