December monthly medal golf on Saturday

S.M. Jiffrey Abdeen - Kandy Sports Corr.

Victoria Golf and Country Resort, Kandy, will bring another highly successful golfing year to a close when it conducts the final competition for the year with the December monthly medal golf championship which will be worked off at the Victoria golf course at Rajawella off Kandy next Saturday - December 26th with the first off at 7.30 a.m.

The golf course at Victoria is a picture of beauty and has won a lot of praise from the local and foreign golfers who have had the opportunity to show their prowess there.

A well maintained golf course no doubt is a picture of beauty and the thrills of the golfers know no bounds if it is made challenging. Victoria golf course is just that and provides plenty of excitement to the golfers.

During the year the Victoria golf course won the award for the ‘Best Course in the Sub Continent’ for the second successive with its Marketing Executive Dhaushika Madagoda collecting the prestigious award at Golden Horse Palace Hotel in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia this year.

Australian born General Manager Errol Johnston together with the Course Manager Maheel Bulumulla and the team of workers had done a wonderful job in bringing this honour to the organisation and the country.

This Monthly Medal golf championship - a highly contested event will be final fling for the years for the golfers and they will doubt off a fine year of golf.

Some of the top golfers who should call the tune are winner of the Swedish Classics 2009 Chamil Wickremasinghe, Ian Tait, Veinert Holm, Helmut Succhy, Sirath Kasthuriratne, Errol Johnston, Bo Lindberg, Sam Gunaratne, Sujeewa Lankatillake, Rolf Tibblin, Ravi Mediwake, and Majeed Awn from Colombo who has come back to play here after some time.

The competition among the ladies should see the star of the Oman Air Golf championship teenager Maleena Awn who made a tremendous impact at this golf championship by winning no less than four events including the Staldeford championship. Heleena Awn a sportswoman well-known in the yachting circles returned to play at Victoria after sometime and what impact she made by displaying her skills to the optimum.

Not only locally but also in the tournaments held in India she has brought honour to the country. Others who should call the tune with the golf club are Sonia Boyle, Jyoti Haynes, Linda Harris, Lillian Perera, Tina Hannsson, Manori Jayakoddy. Pauline Morley and many others.

The weather up in the hills is excellent with a lot of mist and the course damp in the early morning but they dry off once sunshine falls on it.