Sri Lanka Juniors beat Pakistan Juniors in a thrilling finish to the inaugural HSBC International Junior Golf Championship, played in Ryder Cup Match-Play format, where Sri Lanka Juniors played against the Pakistan Juniors in the first-ever final of the International Junior Golf Championship organised by the Sri Lanka Golf Union.
The HSBC International Junior Golf Championship commenced with the individual event attracting 100 entries, in four age Group Categories laying the platform for the Team Championships the following day.
The Sri Lanka Golf Union International two member team Championship on stroke play including Bangladesh (two teams), Pakistan and Sri Lanka fielding three teams each.
The Pakistan Junior boys dominated the two member stroke play Team Championship winning the SLGU Junior International team Championship with the ‘A’ Team comprising Ahmed Baig(70) and Saqib (77) with an aggregate gross score of 147, five strokes clear of Pakistan ‘B’ Damil Ataulla(77) and Junaid Irfan (75) whilst third place went to the Sri Lankan pair of Januka Dilshan(74) and T. Akash (79).
However, in the afternoon session, Pakistan faced Sri Lanka in a match-play showdown to determine the Team Champions of the HSBC International Junior Golf Championship 2017.
The six member teams comprising of four Junior Boys and two Junior Girls representing Pakistan and Sri Lanka played six singles and Sri Lanka won quite comprehensively in the end by 4.5 points to 1.5 points out of a maximum six points.
Nonetheless, the Final was gallantly fought out to the final hole, which was a closer battle than the final margin of victory.
Sri Lankan Team Captain Januka Dilshan registered the first points for the team with a comfortable 5 and 3 win over Saqib, whilst Kayla Perera recorded the biggest margin of victory defeating RimshaIjaz 6 and 5. Armand Flamer Caldera registered a narrow but emphatic 1 up victory over Damil Ataulla, whilst Vinod Weerasinghe made a birdie on the 18th to halve his match against Junaid Irfan, having been one down at the last hole.
Taniya Minel Balasuriya was made to fight for her victory all the way by Suneya Osama who sank some amazing putts throughout the game to hold Taniya to All Square playing the 18th.
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