Caddies Rasika and Logaraja take top honours

Kandy Sports corr. at Victoria

GOLF: Two caddies from the Victoria Golf and Country Resort S. Rasika and S. Logaraja took top honours at the May Monthly Medal Golf competition organised by the Victoria Golf and Country Resort and worked off at the beautiful Victoria Golf Course at Rajawella over the weekend.

Bright weather once again greeted the large field of golfers from Colombo, Kandy and Nuwara Eliya and well maintained fairways and the greens were in immaculate condition.

S. Rasika won the Ladies Nett Division with nett score of 72 but Singaporean Aida Andrea too registered a similar nett score of 72 strokes. Rasika emerged winner on a count back that too after a very close fight. Rasika got 9.38 back 9 while Aida Andrea 9.39.

In third and fourth places were Sonia Boyle 73 nett and Leader Board Leader Roshni Sangani 74 nett. Just three points separated the foursome and it would give a idea as to the tense struggle these lady golfers would have been engaged in.

The Mens Nett Division went to caddie S. Logaraja with 71 nett but Chamil Wicrkemasinghe 73 nett and David Evans 73 nett were not far behind them. It was the handicap which gave Logaraja an edge over them.

Rasika was on top of the Ladies gross Division with 87 followed by Sonia Boyle on 90 and Aida Andrea 96 gross.

Logaraja was also on top of the Men’s Gross Division getting 79 gross with Chamil Wickremasinghe and David Evans too registering scores of 79 gross. Logaraja emerged winner on a count back getting 9.38, Chamil Wickremesinghe 9.40 and David Evans 9.41. A very close tussle was witnessed here.

A notable absentee from the competition was Men’s Nett Division I Leader Board leader Sam Gunaratne who is away in England playing club cricket.

Men’s Nett Division: (Handicap indicated within brackets)

1. S. Logaraja (8) 71 nett, 2. Chamil Wickremesinghe (6) 73 nett, 3. David Evans (6) 73 nett, 4. Ian Tait (7) 77 nett, 5. Errol Johnson (11) 80 nett, 6. Sidath Wettimuni (9) 81 nett, 7. Nimal Wettimuni (6) 89 nett.

Nett Men’s Division II (Handicap indicated within brackets)

1. Suchy Helmut (25) 70 nett, 2. Mark Chicano (24) 71 nett, 3. Bo Lindberg (20) 76 nett, 4. Harin Udeshi (13) 76 nett, 5. David Haynes (15) 78 nett, 6. K. Hama (21) 79 nett, 7. Bimal Fernando (24) 79 nett, 8. Michael Bichardson (22) 80 nett, 9. S. M. A. Hameed (16) 82 nett, 10. Tyaeb Akberally (13) 82 nett, 11. Richard Abdeen (17) 84 nett, 12. Veinert Holm (20) 89 nett, 13. Per Cramborn (19) 89 nett, 14. John Anngood (28) 93 nett, 15. Carl Kelgart (18) 94 nett.

Ladies Nett Division (Handicap indicated within brackets)

1. S. Rasika (15) 72 nett, 2. Aida Andrea (24) 72 nett, 3. Sonia Boyle (17) 73 nett, 4. Roshni Sangani (23) 74 nett, 5. Holga Spendieer (36) 78 nett, 6. Indira Tibblins (23) 79 nett, 7. Pauline Morley (29) 79 nett, 8. Manori Jayakoddy (19) 80 nett, 9. Jyoti Haynes (26) 80 nett, 10. Anne Anugood (31) 83 nett, 11. Lillian Perera (36) 89 nett.

Men’s Gross Division

1. S. Logaraja 79 gross, 2. Chamil Wickemasinghe 79 gross, 3. David Evans 79 gross, 4. Ian Tait 84 gross, 5. Harin Udeshi 89 gross, 6. Sidath Wettimuni 89 gross, 7. Errol Johnston 91 gross, 8. David Haynes 93 gross, 9. Marlk Chicano 95 gross, 10. Suchy Helmut 95 gross, 11. Tyaeb Akberally 95 gross, 12. Nimal Wettimuni 95 gross, 13. Bo Lindberg 96 gross, 14. S. M. A. Hameed 98 gross, 15. K. Hana 100 gross, 16. Richard Abdeen 101 gross, 17. Michael Richardson 102 gross, 18. Bimal Fernando 103 gross, 19. Per Cramborn 108 gross, 20. Veinert Holm 109 gross, 21. Carl Kelaart 112 gross, 22. John Anngood 121 gross.

Ladies Gross Division

1. S. Rasika 87 gross, 2. Sonia Boyle 90 gross, 3. Aida Andrea 96 gross, 4. Roshni Sangani 97 gross, 5. Manori Jayakoddy 99 gross, 6. Indira Tibblins 102 gross, 7. Jyoti Haynes 106 gross, 8. Pauline Morley 108 gross, 9. Anne Anngood 114 gross, 10. Holga Spondier 114 gross, 11. Lillian Perera 125 gross.